JOURNAL

Guidelines for prospective contributors:
Concreta welcomes the submission of original papers. Texts may be submitted in any of the official languages, as well as in Portuguese, English, French or Italian. If selected by the editorial team, they will be translated into Spanish for the print edition of the journal. Publication implies acceptance of a Creative Commons “Attribution-NoDerivatives (by-nd)” licence. Submissions must be previously unpublished and, if selected, will be remunerated with a variable fee depending on the section of the journal in which they appear.

Submission requirements:
Concreta requires that contributions respond to the specific themes and conceptual frameworks established by the editorial team for each issue. Concreta 26 (Autumn 2025) reflects on the impact of artificial intelligence on the ways we produce and think about images. Contributions may explore its ontological, epistemological, aesthetic and political dimensions: the transformation of images into mathematical abstraction; the implicit assumptions in data labelling and classification; the automation of human perception and cognition; the transformation of aesthetic experience and artistic creation—including debates around plagiarism and labour—and the tension between replacement and co-creation. This issue seeks a multifaceted perspective, capable of navigating the complexities of the new regime of algorithmic visuality without resorting to binary oppositions or totalising narratives.

Interested authors should email info@editorialconcreta.org with the subject line “Submission of original work”. Please include the title of the proposal, a summary (500 words), contact details (telephone and email), and a short biography. The full text should also be submitted, with an approximate length of 3,000 words, along with any accompanying images (including publication rights), noting that images will be printed in greyscale. The deadline for submissions is 15 September 2025. Selected contributors will be notified on 1 October.

Review process and data protection:
Concreta is committed to a rigorous and transparent review process. All personal data provided by authors will be used exclusively for the purposes outlined above.