Psiax #10 – Open Call

 

In the contemporary world, shaped by the massive circulation of images and by technological mediation, the body is constantly being reconfigured. Avatars, filters, 3D modelling, artificial intelligence, and virtual environments generate new corporealities and new forms of presence, challenging our understanding of what it means to draw a hybrid, digital, or expanded body. Drawing and image-making are deeply intertwined with standards of beauty, gender, power, and exclusion, operating as tools of inquiry: archives of memory, surfaces of inscription, and fields of formal and conceptual experimentation.

 

Contemporary artistic practices expand the relationship between body, image, and thought, creating spaces in which corporeality is simultaneously represented, questioned, and reinvented. In these contexts, the image becomes an instrument of critical analysis and a means of uncovering the body’s multiple dimensions. For this issue, we welcome submissions of drawings, artistic projects, image series, articles, visual essays, critical texts, and contextual essays that question, investigate, and expand representations of the body in drawing and in the image. We are particularly interested in contributions that explore the body as a visual construction, a sensory experience, and a field of aesthetic, cultural, and political reflection.

 

Submission deadline: until 31 December 2026
Notification of results: until 30 April 2027
Expected publication of the journal: 2027
Submissions: HERE

 

* PSIAX is a periodical active since 2002, publishing studies and reflections on drawing and images. It is jointly directed by the Faculties of Architecture and Fine Arts of the University of Porto and the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho, being edited by the research units i2ADS and Lab2PT.

 

PSIAX: Estudos e Reflexões sobre Desenho e Imagem