We seek contributions that deeply, creatively, and with engaging honesty respond to your personally flavored inquiry, and that may circle around themes such as art*, transcendence*, identity, questions of meaning, and creativity (see manifesto).
*We mean art in its broadest sense: as a vehicle for expressing, exploring, forming or dismantling identities. Similarly, we intend a broad use of the term transcendence as it refers to aspects of experience that: are not "effable" through commonplace scientific or sensory explanation; bring us into an awareness that goes beyond self-contained individuality; connect us to traditions or experiences that take us outside of temporality.
And we are especially interested in contributions that convey how transcendence tangles with everyday human experience and with experience as it is elevated through art!
Suggested Types of Submissions
Word-oriented: essay, interview/dialog, poetry, memoir, short short fiction (approx. 1,000-2,000 words), manifesto, myth, reviews, traditional scholarship, informational pieces. Also, creative lists, blurbs, tidbits that make us go "Hunhh!!" or games, puzzles and assorted fun-provoking pieces are welcomed.
Visual art, audio and "other": anything that another human can see or hear (or taste, smell or touch?) through the medium of computer technology is fair game. Experiments may be proposed. We are interested in pushing the boundaries of art forms, leaning hard into the perceived limits of all media's interfacing potential.
Nitty-Gritty
Payment: At this time, we do not offer monetary payment for pieces published in Artocratic. Do like us and just focus on the glory.
Due dates are rolling – that's the beauty of our online, non-issue-based format. In general, your work will be featured on our Web site for a minimum of three months, perhaps longer, and will most likely remain up in archives indefinitely.
Artocratic editors reserve the right to edit with respect to length or flow; but any substantive changes will be made in consultation with the author or with author's consent.
By submitting your work, you grant us the rights to use your name and the accepted work (whole or part) on our Web site and in print publication versions of Artocratic. Beyond these uses, and following publication, rights revert to the author. Subsequent submissions of your piece to other publications should include acknowledgment as "FIRST PUBLISHED IN ARTOCRATIC" and the date it went up. (As above, this does not apply to music or visual art.)
Since protection against misuse of intellectual properties is difficult on the Internet, Artocratic cannot be held liable for misuse of contributions published.
Submission of the contribution: by email with attachment or by CD. Please use .rtf, .txt, or .doc format for text documents (Mac users can also use Pages).
Original artwork must be submitted in such a way that we can reproduce it on our Web site (.jpg, video YouTube link, etc.).
Send email submissions to: submissions@artocratic.com
Send CD submissions to:
Artocratic
24127 97th Ave SW
Vashon Island, WA 98070
Contributors should include a brief statement about their work, as well as a few sentences of biographical information. Visual artists, please include a short artist's statement.
Include all contact information with your submission.
