| dc.description.abstract | Music and Arts in Action (MAiA), a refereed, multidisciplinary journal, invites
submissions for a thematic issue examining mediation in music and other performance,
visual and literary arts, to appear in volume 5(1), 2012. By mediation, we mean the
various forces that shape or structure how art products are produced, transmitted and
experienced by their consumers. As demonstrated by scholars of actor-network theory,
objects themselves play active roles in their own mediation by affording unanticipated
opportunities for engagement. Artistic mediation may take place through technologies
(e.g., of musical production/consumption), in situations (e.g., dance classes) and during
processes (e.g., of artistic creation, editing or critique). Artistic mediation also operates
on individual and collective levels, ranging from personal performance styles, to
discourses (e.g., of art history), to organizational aesthetics (e.g., of performing spaces).
Taken together, mediation comprises personal, social and material processes that
implicate objects, emotions, bodies, gestures, spaces, institutions, languages, social
networks and other actors. | en_GB |
