As we become more connected in our daily lives through technologies like mobile phones and social media, digital tools and methods are one way artists can use computers to create critical making practices that intervene, disrupt, probe, question, and create dialogue within society. We are looking for authors to share their research, creative practice and/or pedagogical practices highlighting the socially-engaged methods digital technologies are being used for critical digital making. Using criticality as the theory and practice of investigating power relationships in institutions and digital computing networks, we invite authors to explore how criticality applied to digital making can look beyond the screen and between lines (of code).

We expect authors to show examples of how technologies like mobile phones and social media, or other digital tools and methods can provide avenues for artists/designers/arts educators to serve as leaders in the community for social justice, cultural critique, and public pedagogy. In this book, we ask contributors to share ways digital forms of making are being used as socially critical practices, citing works that incorporate digital media for collaboration, cooperation, crowd-sourcing, or as a place for activism. We seek proposals in the form of
Accounts of creative practice and/or arts-based research
Relevant case studies in art and design
Conceptual frameworks exploring socially critical digital making
Historical antecedents for criticality and digital making
Pedagogical research of art and design socially critical practice

The primary audiences of this book include arts and design educators, artists, designers, technologists, general K-12 educators, pre-service teachers, graduate students, activists, administrators, and policymakers. The book is intended to have a wide appeal due to high interest in current pedagogical developments involving digital media and learning, media arts, socially-engaged art practices, and initiatives in interdisciplinary curricula such as STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math). We encourage authors to write for a broad audience.

We invite you to submit a 500 word proposal with title and 3-5 keywords by August 1, 2017. Please use this link to submit your proposal: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1htE5ra3KyXuM9A5CtQ12k80Q8fLIcoDA_25mV32Vi-k

Please contact us if you have any questions.

Aaron Knochel (aaronknochel@gmail.com)
Assistant Professor of Art Education, Penn State School of Visual Arts
Christine Liao (cllyliao@gmail.com)
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Ryan Patton (rpatton@vcu.edu)
Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University