creativity/machine

’scan’: an upcoming issue of M/C Journal of Media and Culture

The scan is both the quick glance and the measured study, it is a survey of the exterior and an interrogation of hidden interiors. Practices of scanning are a response to the increased number of things to consider and the reduced amount of time to consider them. Scanning demarcates that which is seen as relevant, interesting and important into ever increasing ‘to do’ lists, at the same time dismissing that which is not. These questions of importance or relevance are often decided through cursory glances and greater consideration is regularly left for ‘later’. Scanning engages questions about surveillance, about the way in which we surveil our self and our surrounds, and about the way we submit our self and our surrounds to surveillance by others. In many ways scanning has an impact on the way in which authority is practiced, in creative practice, scholarship and daily life.

This edition invites reflections on the ’scan’, on the activities of watching, surveilling, reporting and recording. We invite creative interpretations of the act of scanning and contributions from a wide
variety of fields to explore its practices, limitations and potentials.

Details
o Article deadline: 1 July 2005
o Release date: 24 August 2005
o Editors: Joshua Green and Adam Swift

Send any enquiries, and complete articles, to scan at journal.media-
culture.org.au.