About

The Comparative Media Arts Journal

The Comparative Media Arts Journal (CMA Journal) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal of lively inquiry into visual culture, cinema studies, performance studies, and new media arts encouraging intermedial and comparative approaches geared towards publishing the work of early-career scholars and artists. Published once yearly, each issue is focused by an aesthetic theme. Current and recent graduate students; early-career faculty, independent scholars, and artists in all practices are invited to submit work for publication to CMA Journal. We welcome submissions of scholarly research and essays, exhibition and book reviews, experimental and creative writing, documentation of artworks in progress, documentation of completed projects, and case studies.

The Comparative Media Arts Journal is published by the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC.

Faculty Advisor

Denise Oleksijczuk is an art historian, curator and visual artist whose scholarly interests include British, Canadian and Indigenous art from the late 18th through the twenty-first centuries, including print culture, media archaeology, ecology and environmentalism. She is the author of the award-winning book The First Panoramas: Visions of British Imperialism (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), which examines the relationship between panoramic landscape painting and the development of the British empire and colonialism. Her research and teaching draw attention to the modes of spectatorship made possible by different visual and material forms and how these forms of experience relate to specific local and historical contexts. Her current book project, Learning from Plants, is a critical study of the history of forest and marginal gardens, the ‘vegetal turn’ in contemporary art, and Indigenous ecological philosophy.

Degree and Studies

Ph.D., University of British Columbia
B.F.A., M.A., University of Toronto
Postdoctoral Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London

Editors

The CMA journal follows a rotational editorial structure where a new editor, drawn from the M.A. program within the School for the Contemporary Arts, takes on the position of editor-in-chief with each issue. Thematic issues are chosen annually, and members of the editorial board team are selected to work with the editor to oversee each issue’s production.

Katie Belcher, Editor-in-Chief | www.katiebelcher.art
2026 Editorial Board, TBC

Peer Review

Our Peer Review Committee consists of a changing roster of early-career scholars. If you are a faculty, postgraduate, graduate student or a recent graduate with an academic interest in the arts and would like to become a Peer Reviewer or would like to assist the Editorial Committee in various administrative tasks, please contact us at cma_journal@sfu.ca.

Contact

SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
149 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4
E: cma_journal@sfu.ca

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