About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The main focus of Contemporânea - PPGART/UFSM's Journal is to produce knowledge and bring about a dynamic of emerging study and artistical proposals before the institualization of arts. It aims at raising the contemporary debate towards artistical and conceptual practics, which are produces in academic, scientific, formal and informal spaces.
Thua, Contemporânea seeks to be a space of discussion and promotion of research inside Visual Poetics or History, Theory and Critic of Art, all this in dialogue with other areas such as music, film, scenic arts, design, literature and humane sciences, in order to rethink art as something wider inside culture.
The Journal is interested in publishing results coming from an artist reflection, as well as historians, intelectuals, philosophers, anthropologists, even touching literature revisions and translations of relevant pieces, which contribute to the discussion in the artistic field.
Peer Review Process
The works submitted are first evaluated by section editors, that determine if the work is adequate for the scope of the journal and the section that it has been submitted for. The manuscripts selected in this first step will be evaluated through a double blind peer review, that is, two ad hoc partners from different institutions of the authorship will evaluate the article. The works approved by two partners will be considered approved. In case of conflict between reviewers, the article will be sent to a third partner.
The articles must contribute to the research on Visual Arts, presenting emphasis in contemporary art, touching epistemological, methodological and empirical issues.
The dossiers must propose and/or present discussions which promote the debate regarding the artistic scene. Also, they shall be coordinated by professions in the touched area, and can be submitted to the Editorial Council. The dossier articles must be evaluated or selected and organized by the coordinators. Articles, essays, manifestos, interviews, expositions and testimonies may integrate the work.
Interviews should propose relevant issues which contribute to the research on Visual Arts, presenting emphasis in contemporary art as well as research inside Visual Poetics or History, Theory and Critic of Art. Reviews, summaries and thesis can also be published.
Periodicity
The periodicity of publication is half-year.
Open Access Policy
The Journal offers free and immediate access to its contents following the principle that free availability of scientific knowledge to the public proposes a wider democratization of knowledge.
Conflict of Interest Policy
The author or partner is ethically conscious of the requirement to transparency between conflicts of interest in publishing scientific and/or artistic ´pieces.
Journal's History
Contemporânea - Journal of PPGART/UFSM came back in an online format aiming at knowledge exchange. Once it prioritizes the democratization of scientific and artistic research, it optimizes the distribution and attends to the demands of environmental sustainability and open access system.
Back in 2016, the Post-Graduation in Visual Arts program from Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) noticed the importance of the production of eletronic knowledge. Between the many benefits eletronic Journals offer to the comunity, we highlight its immediate access, unlimited availability and, last but not least, the Open Acess. The initiative of Open Acess meets its principles in the concentration and sharing of common aspects of the scientific community, as well as the low cost in the publishing of works from all types of researchers (MEHREZI, 2010).
In this aspect, the Contemporânea Journal shares the principle that a knowledge file is an unstable object, in opposition to an active one, inside a multiple and malleable logic difusion, what also refers to itss availability. By inserting itself in the contect of contemporary art, Contemporânea is emphasizing the imagetic and narrative relations of the plastic relations, which will contribute to the research inside visual arts.
MEHREZI, Moncef. Lesrevuesélectroniquesscientifiques: stratégieséditoriales et médiation de l’information. Sciences de l’Homme et Société. Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2010.
