Call for Contributions # 25-26 (2026-2027)
“L’uomo nero. Materiali per una storia delle arti della modernità” is an online,
open access journal, edited by Cactus – Contemporary Art Research Center at the
University of Milan and published by Milano University Press
(https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/uomonero/index).
The next issue, # 25-26, edited by Davide Colombo, will be released in Spring
2027 and will be divided as usual into two main sections: one monographic and
the other free-themed.
The monographic section of issue # 25–26 will be entitled L’Uomo Nero Remix
and will be dedicated to a wide range of artistic research developed between the
1960s and 1980s, characterised by the ‘remixing’ of media, tools and extra-artistic
procedures as visual practices. The focus is not on a purely technological or mediabased
approach, but on a cross-cutting analysis rooted in the artists’ work, which
highlights the motivations, critical stances and expressive strategies that guided
the assimilation and reconditioning of technical-scientific, informational and
communicative practices. In this dialogue between different domains, the metacritical
vocation of artistic research offers a field of ‘hybridisations’ in which
systems designed to know, measure, organise or transmit become devices for
questioning, shifting and, at times, subverting language and artistic practice.
Possible themes of investigation related to concepts, theoretical principles,
mechanisms, and non-artistic procedures used by artists include, but are not
limited to:
• randomness;
• entropy;
• rhizome;
• information;
• interactivity;
• simulation;
• systems of understanding, organisation and control;
• deskilling/reskilling.
Two additional sections complete the issue: Fuoritema (Off topic) will feature a
selected number of articles focused on topics not related to the monographic
theme; Rarità, riscoperte, segnalazioni (Rarities, Rediscoveries, Highlights) will
collect shorter contributions: announcements, reports, discussions on small sets
of sources, as well as short critical essay and, possibly, reviews.
The issue will also include contributions by artists (by invitation only).
From 1st to 20th July 2026, all scholars interested in contributing to the issue are
invited to upload their article proposals via the online procedure available on the
journal website:
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/uomonero/about/submissions
Any contribution should conform to the following indications, otherwise it
shall not be accepted:
– be written in Italian, English or French;
– be presented in a .doc Word file, containing the text, notes and any text to be
published as an appendix to the article (transcriptions of documents, lists of
sources or works etc.) and a list of captions for illustrations, prepared according
to the editorial guidelines laid down in the EditorialGuidelines.pdf file
(downloadable from this link:
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/uomonero/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/147);
– be accompanied by all illustrations, in separate .jpg files, in the format indicated
in the Editorial Guidelines;
– a complete bibliography, ordered alphabetically, comprehensive of every
bibliographic source mentioned in the article and in the footnotes, following the
Editorial Guidelines, have been uploaded separately in the dedicated field of the
submission procedure;
– be accompanied by an Italian and English author’s biography (500 characters,
including spaces) and by an English abstract of the article (1500 characters,
including spaces);
– be accompanied by an e-mail specifying for which section of the journal the
article is intended (the monographic section Remix; Author’s Choice; Rares,
Rediscovered, Notices). In the same e-mail, the author of the article (or the
corresponding author, delegated by the co-authors, in the case of jointly-written
articles) should explicitly declare, under his personal responsibility that:
– he is the author of the article and, in the case of jointly-written articles, has been
delegated by the co-authors (whose full names and contact details must be given)
to submit the article to the journal for publication;
– the scientific content of the article is original and the article is unpublished;
– neither he, nor the co-authors, have submitted the article for publication to
another journal, publishers or editorial board, nor for presentation to the
committee of any symposium, congress or study group; or, the article has
previously been refused for publication or presentation, indicating date of
submission, date of refusal and full details of contact person at the journal,
publishers, editorial board, committee of symposium, congress or study group;
– all texts and documents cited, including article illustrations, are sent to the
editors of “L’uomo nero” and the journal’s publisher royalty-free for online open
access journal licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
International License (CC BY SA);
Download the Call here.
