Special Issue - Mediality and Environment: interfaces, design, and practices
Call for contributions
The notions of “medium” and “environment” have long been central to the description of human capacities for perception and action. Building on ancient traditions of mediation (metaxu),
environmental mediality today designates a regime in which the digital augments environments by inscribing layers of information and meaning into them. This perspective, grounded in information and communication sciences, mobilizes prototypes, interfaces and experiments. It also questions how data are produced, visualized, opened and narrated.
We invite contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following areas:
● Theories of environmental mediality: conceptual approaches and theoretical objects for thinking the convergence between medium and milieu.
● Media ecology: the role of media dispositifs and infrastructures in constructing symbolic, political and affective/sensory ecologies of living together.
● Machinic vision, operational images and environmental AI: technologies for the algorithmic computation of environments and their epistemological, aesthetic and political effects.
● Posthumanism, more‑than‑human and nonhuman: reconfigurations of relations through capture, automation and machinic vision technologies.
● Sensor networks, environmental data and quantification of the milieu in art‑science contexts: quantified self, remote sensing, environmental datafication and data extraction.
● XR/VR/AR/MR interfaces and “extended” realities: virtual environments as technologies of occupation, capture and transformation of the world.
● Visual truth and image‑based evidence in regimes of environmental media: Forensic Architecture, OSINT and data journalism.
● Research‑creation approaches: artistic experimentation, information design and the representational rhetorics of data and environmental experience.
Full Call for Papers, PDF - EN & FR
https://paragraphe.univ-paris8.fr/+AAC-Numero-special-de-la-revue-IJDST-Medialite-et-environnement-interfaces+
Link to bibliography:
https://paragraphe.univ-paris8.fr/+AAC-Numero-special-de-la-revue-IJDST-Medialite-et-environne
ment-interfaces+
Timeline
30 April 2026 – abstract submission deadline
11 May 2026 – notification to authors about abstracts
7 September 2026 – full paper submission deadline
11 September 2026 – 25 November 2026 – revision period
11 December 2026 – publication of the special issue
Word Length
Abstract length: 500 - 600 words.
The abstract should include indications of a minimum reference bibliography.
Full paper length: 8000 - 10.000 words
Images: up to 5 images (color or black and white)
Scientific Committee
Kristian Bankov, NBU, Bulgaria
Samuel Bianchini, EnsAD, France
Federico Biggio, PRIM, Univ. de Tours, France
David Bihanic, Univ. Paris I, France
Andrés Burbano, UOC, Spain
Ghislaine Chabert, Univ. de Lyon 3, France
Yves Citton, FabLitt, Univ. Paris 8, France
Rosa Cinelli, Paragraphe, Univ. Paris 8, France
Maria Engberg, Malmö University, Sweden
Ruggero Eugeni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Artist and researcher, Spain
Gustavo Gomez-Mejia, PRIM, Univ. de Tours, France
Jean-François Jego, INREV, Univ. Paris 8, France
Pierre Lévy, Université d’Ottawa, Canada
Alexiev Momchil, Artist and researcher, Bulgaria
Oriana Persico, Artist and researcher, HER (She Loves Data), Italy
Andrea Pinotti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Everardo Reyes, Paragraphe, Univ. Paris 8, France
Bérénice Serra, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Switzerland
Christa Sommerer, Media artist, Austria
Mattia Thibault, Tampere University, Finland
Matteo Treleani, Université Côte d’Azur, France
Giovanni Tusa, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal
Khaldoun Zreik, Paragraphe, Univ. Paris 8, France
Joanna Zylinska, King’s College, UK
Contacts
Federico Biggio federico.biggio@univ-tours.fr ,
Rosa Cinelli rosa.cinelli@univ-paris8.fr
Everardo Reyes ereyes-garcia@univ-paris8.fr
