Call for Submissions:
e-merge: journal of arts administration and policy.
www.saic.edu/emerge

The sense of immediate urgency caused by the global financial crisis may have passed, but individuals and organizations are still faced with a profoundly altered situation. An unprecedented degree of uncertainty is a new constant in this altered cultural and economic landscape; this is especially true of the hopes that had been placed in the potential of cultural economies to provide a base for future growth and development. Suddenly, we can no longer rely on the paradigms in which we have been functioning, but need to envision new models of operation.

In this issue of e-merge, we would like to explore how you foresee the future of your personal or organizational operations, and the kinds of adaptations we might expect. We are interested in diverse, micro- and macroscopic perspectives on these issues, ranging from explorations of individual practices to broader themes of local, national and international policies and markets. e-merge welcomes theoretical and critical contributions from students, academics and practitioners in the field of the arts administration, and encourages a variety of stylistic approaches to writing. We seek submissions of approx. 3,000 – 5,000 words in length.

Calendar:
250-word abstracts due: July 1st
Notifications sent by July 15th
Full articles due: October 1st
The issue will be published online(www.saic.edu/emerge) in early December 2009.

E-mail abstracts to: emerge@saic.edu

If you have any questions, you can contact editors:

Dorota Biczel Nelson: dorota.nelson@gmail.com
Ania Szremski: ania.szremski@gmail.com

About the Journal:

e-merge: journal of arts administration and policy is an innovative, peer-reviewed online journal produced by graduate students in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Master of Arts Administration and Policy program. It features original, pioneering theory and practice in the field of arts administration. We are dedicated to fostering creative discussions amongst leading professionals, academics and students, and giving them a vehicle through which to voice their opinions, share new ideas and challenge the status quo. We are interested both in the role(s) of an administrator as an individual and in a wide range of institutional aspects of the field. Given the rapid growth of arts administration as a discipline, we seek to engage with and problematize issues related to arts administration as a professional practice.

e-merge is published bi-annually in May and December.

The faculty advisor for the journal is Professor Adelheid Mers.

Notes on the first issue:

The first, special issue of e-merge took advantage of the convergence of our first publication date with Art Chicago 2009. We featured a series of interviews with the diverse professionals engaged in the fair in order to present an insider's perspective from the trenches of one of the most hotly discussed events in Chicago's cultural landscape. Interviews with the fair's key administrators and curators touched on a nexus of fundamental questions, more pressing than ever before. These questions concerned the relationship of art to the market; the viability of traditional vehicles of distribution for art; art's political, social, and civic dimensions; and tensions between local and global, among others. Many of these questions will become through-lines in future, theoretically and critically focused issues of e-merge.