READING EUROPE’S PALEOLITHIC WRITING: Gönnersdorf Platte 87
, D. T. Burgy | AESTHETIC INNOVATION IN INDIGENOUS TYPEFACES: Designing a Lushootseed font, J. Shen | DYSLEXIA: A mind for typography
, M. H. Schneps | ANATOMY OF TEXTURE, M. Reed | ACTIVATING PRAYERS: Textual landscapes of the Tibetan Buddhist diaspora, C. M. Madsen + R. Correia Jr. | NEGATED NEWS: HISTORIES’ RANSOM NOTES, An interview with visual artist Megan Michalak, C. Arcabascio + M. Hurst | MAPPING TEXT, A. Skupin | RETROSPECT ca. 1865, Text as Image: A Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, G. B. Barnhill | (Re)Views: Prospero's Books, I. Moylan | The Symbolic Warning, R. Sullivan | Watch, A. One

The Visions Issue Playlist - music to read this issue by... | Invisible Friends: The creation of imaginary companions in childhood and beyond
, T. Gleason | The Simulation of the God Experience Within the Laboratory
, M.A. Persinger | Vision and Visions in Piero della Francesca's Legend of the True Cross, R. Belton + B. Kersten | Tara Describes a Photograph to Me
, A. Vaun | Decoding the Neurological Basis of Shamanic Visions:
 An interview with Dr. Michael Winkelman, [plus web-only extended interview]
, C. Arcabascio | Neutral Territories: The High Sierra - traveling inward, P.M. Bergman | RetroSpect ca. 1870: The temperance campaign against things that go bump in the night, L.B. Hewes | Our Inscapes Projected Outward: Charles Bonnet Syndrome, R. Sapin | Performing Imaginary Pilgrimages: Re/enacting the cloistered meta-voyages of the 15th-century Sisters of the Dominican Observance, [web-only supplementary music and images], C. Arcabascio | (Re)Views: Requiem, Where the Wild Things Are & Harvey, I. Moylan

The Cosmos Issue Playlist - music to read this issue by... | Dimming the Lights: Astronomy and light pollution, S. Kardel | What the Wise Men Saw In the Sky, M.R. Molnar | Maya Ethnoastronomy, S. Milbrath | The Chemical Elements in the Cosmos, K. Lodders | Exploring Mars and the Moon Using Google Earth, R.A. Beyer | The Use of Color in Interstellar Message Design, K.A. Jameson & J. Lomberg | Seeing Titan: Mapping Saturn's moon with infrared technology, J.W. Barnes | RetroSpect: 1880-1911 - Williamina Fleming Catalogs the Stars, C. Arcabascio | RetroSpect: 1757 - The Aerial Telescope | Seeing the Universe Through a Straw: The Hubble Space Telescope, C.M. Bielmeier | $25 Million a Ride: A real view of space tourism, C.J. Wallington | Unberührtes Muster (Pristine Patterns), A. Vaun | (Re)Views: From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Moon (2009), I. Moylan

Fluorescence in the Garden, C.M. Bielmeier [online supplementary images] | Ordering Colors: A multifaceted problem, R.G. Kuehni |RetroSpect: Processes for making the best and finest sort of prussian blue with quick-lime (1762); and Concerning the secret of a red gum... (1775), various authors | Color Matters, O.D. Odita | An Interview with Evolutionary Biologist Hopi Hoekstra, C. Arcabascio | Seeing Red on Mars: Adaptation and the influence of environment on color appearance, M.A. Webster | WAVEs of Color: An ecological valence theory of human color preference, K.B. Schloss and S.E. Palmer | Playing (With) Color, F. Collopy | Relatively Speaking: The relationship between language and thought in the color domain D. Roberson and J.R. Hanley | Color-Struck: Quilting and Colorism in the African-American Community, L. Cross | Human Potential for Tetrachromacy, K.A. Jameson [online supplementary article] | Singed Bedroom, Weekend Afternoon, A. Vaun | Watercolor Science: Transparent watercolor through the eyes of an aerospace engineer, C.M. Bielmeier | (Re)Views: Blue + The Wizard of Oz, I. Moylan | Interview: Hewlett-Packard Color Scientist, Nathan Maroney, L. Cross

The Dandelion School Transformation Project: A Conversation with Lily Yeh | Politically and Geographically Colorful: Revolution, Regime and Color in China [web-only links], Han-Teng Liao |What Will Happen Next? Envisioning a Personal Future in China, C. Stafford [supplemental interview with the author] | Myth and Modernity, M. Ting [web-only links] | Retro(spect): On Chinese Divination by Dissecting Written Characters, J.J.M de Groot | Situ Panchen, 1700-1774: Tibetan Encampment Revivalist Painter, Glimpse interviews D. Jackson [supplemental links] | Seeing History: Rediscovering the Art of Tibet Through Modern Imaging Technology [supplemental illustrations], C. Reedy | (Re)View: Mahjong at the Peabody Essex Museum [online exhibit], L. Cross | (Re)Views: Not One Less and Green Snakes, I. Moylan

Between Text and Image: The Ambiguity of Chinese Written Characters, Yuehping Yen | Are Chinese Characters Modern Enough? An Essay on Their Role Online [plus web-only supplemental illustrations], Han-Teng Liao | Chinese Magic Mirrors in "Chinese Art, Volume I" (1914), S.W. Bushell | Harvesting Cosmic Spectra: China's Large Area Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), M. Hurst with C. Arcabascio and N. Giroux | East Meets West, Yang Liu | Show Me the Yuan, A. Baumler | Design for Commerce: Chinese Label Art for Common Goods [plus web-only supplemental illustrations], A. Cahan | Desire of the Other: Perceptions of Beauty in Modern China, W. Jankowiak and P. Gray | (Re)View: Chinese Ghost Story, A. Hughes | (Re)View: Frozen, A. Hughes | Chinatown, Boston, MA, 1993, A. Owens

[subscribers' download]

Presidents of the USA, D. Kish | Ugliness: Visibility and the Invisible Prejudice, A. Synnott | Musings on a Master Race: The Drawings of Hannah Barrett, C. Arcabascio | Grandpa Lenin and the Crimson Love, N. Giroux | Politics, Vision and Democracy: Access Equality for the Visually Impaired, M. Murray | Third-Term Panic, 1874, T. Nast, courtesy of T.J. Michalak | Political Symbols, A. Hughes | Mirroring People: Neuropolitics, M. Iacoboni | Hugo Juarez 2008, N. Munyan | Dilemmas of Claiming Ownership in an Epidemic, L. Moana Kolff | Society of the And, R. Van Toorn, introduction by H. White | Media, Race, and the Marketplace, R.M. Entman | Politico-Religious Dimensions of Chaco Canyon Pottery, S. Plog | (Re)views, A. Hughes | Flags, Color, Symbol, and National Identity, C. Arcabascio interviews K. Cerulo | Is the Visual Political? An Essay | T. Kaplan-Maxfield | Political Agenda, R. Sullivan | Web-Only Features: Electing the President: How American Elections Work, S. Hickey | Framing Documenta: Local Politics of High Art in Kassel, Germany, J. Andreoni + D. Stein | Hugo Juarez Campaign Kit, N. Munyan

UPCOMING ISSUES

Cartography Issue #8

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: February 15, 2011

For Issue no. 6, the makers of Glimpse will explore the reasons for and results of mapping systems and the craft of cartography. Works that focus on mapping systems, physical or imagined, on a micro- or macro-scale, that plot out our visible world or unperceived worlds in a linear or non-linear fashion, are welcome. We are interested in writings that deal with the complexity of mapping systems. For example, how do abstract, imagined borders become actual physical dividers of space, as with the Western Wall, the Berlin Wall, the Great Wall, or even more basically, an immigration patrol officer on the US-Mexico border. In turn, how do existing geographic land masses dictate the way that people interact with one another in urban and rural environments; how do maps restrict or expand human understanding of location, destination, space and time?

Articles that give insight to the allure of the mapped out system, its functional productivity, its technological successes and its failures, are other examples of topics that might be of interest. How do directional and linear mapping systems, directional routes, boundaries etc. create and affect methods of human experience, reasoning and decision making processes? Where are the possible power structures contained within the act of mapping, where a person leads in creating a map, and others are presumed to follow?

What about imagined maps? What purposes do maps serve in plotting make-believe spaces and in imagined narratives? How are such endeavors similar or different from plotting physically real locations? Where might the lines blur between them?

We invite works that cover any of these suggested topics, and also encourage submissions that approach relevant issues that are unlisted here. Submissions may not exceed 3000 words (or 6 pages for non-textual visual submissions). Research articles presented for the layperson, essays, interviews, book and film reviews, and visual spreads are all welcomed.

-Angie Mah

Cinema Issue #9

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: March 15, 2011

Glimpse's issue on “Cinema” will investigate our personal, collective and technological relationships to moving image art. We are interested in analyses of cinema as our modern storytelling fire-circle—as the confluence of technology, science and art that satisfies the human need to see and experience images bigger than ourselves.

Are we simply voyeurs gazing at a screen or are we collectively involved in a story and its characters? Submissions might address whether cinema provides a visual and physical space for mass empathy; do moving images convey human truths to diverse groups of individuals? What areas of the brain do we tap into when watching a drama, comedy or thriller together? What makes watching film with others in a dark, enclosed space meaningful at all? Is the “reality” we perceive in film different from the reality we imagine in dreams?

In addition, how have improvements in technology changed the way we experience film? As technology moves toward making the movie-going experience more “real” (i.e, avatar, IMAX™), how will the collective experience of going to the cinema change or not change? We are interested in submissions from writers across disciplines that investigate cinema from cultural, cognitive, technological, and scientific perspectives.

We invite works that cover any of these suggested topics, and also encourage submissions that approach other relevant issues. Submissions may not exceed 3000 words (or 6 pages for non-textual visual submissions). Research articles presented for the layperson, essays, interviews, book and film reviews, and visual works are all welcomed.

- Rachel Sapin