ArteActa is a peer-reviewed academic journal for performative arts and artistic research, published since 2018. Starting in 2022, we publish only online, in Open Access mode, under a Creative Commons license for non-commercial international use (CC BY-NC 4.0). The journal is published by the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
Our focus is on contemporary performance art from the 20th and 21st centuries, with an emphasis on audiovision, theatre, music, dance and their interdisciplinary overlaps. We also cover artistic research in the broad spectrum of this concept. We accept submissions in Czech, English and Slovak, and we follow the journal's Code of Ethics. Peer-reviewed submissions are subject to our peer-review policy.
We accept text-based academic submissions for peer review via our website. You need to create an account to be able to submit a manuscript to our journal. We only accept manuscripts that have not been previously published or are not currently undergoing peer review elsewhere. After creating an account, it is possible to upload the text of the manuscript (in doc., docx. format) and its appendices (bio, keywords, abstract [in the language of the manuscript + English], bibliography, figures with captions). By submitting your manuscript, you agree to the rules of publication in ArteActa and confirm that you are the exclusive author of the manuscript. You also confirm that you have settled the copyright of any accompanying visual and audiovisual materials, and you have their permission to publish these online.
To submit artistic research outputs, you will need to create an account on the Research Catalogue platform (https://www.researchcatalogue.net/portal/register). Once you have done this, you create your exposition in the Research Catalogue and attach a link to the exposition in the ArteActa editorial system.
ArteActa also accepts video essays for the review process. Video essays must be the original work of the author or collective, and the rights to the content used (excerpts or sequences from other audiovisual works) must be secured by the author or collective of authors. The editors are not responsible for any unauthorized use of content. It is recommended to separate your audiovisual material from the taken material in the body of the video essay and to cite the latter with the source.
The length of video essays is arbitrary, the usual range is between 5 and 40 minutes.
ArteActa accepts video essays with audio tracks in Czech, Slovak and English. For greater reach, we recommend providing English subtitles for non-English video essays, but this is not a requirement for publication.
ArteActa only accepts video essays that are not currently under review elsewhere and have not yet been published in an academic context.
Video essays go through a standard, double-blind peer review process.
To be accepted for peer review, authors will send their video essay to the editors via uschovna.cz or wetransfer service, etc., at this stage without credits, with a list of sources used at the end of the video and in a docx. or doc. file (we list sources according to the Chicago Manual of Style, author-date reference).
In addition, a project abstract of 800–1800 characters, biography(ies) of the creators including contact and affiliation, and a project explication of 5–10 standard pages are required. The explication articulates the project's research objectives, inspirations, starting points, and the process of articulating and writing them into the final audiovisual form. The rules and inspirations are also summarized here: Video essays in ArteActa.
The manuscript will then undergo the first round of editorial reading to evaluate its relevance to the journal's focus, adherence to academic or artistic-research output standards, and compliance with the rules of publishing ethics. After necessary revisions, the manuscript will be sent for a double-blind peer review process. Usually, two independent reviews are prepared for each submission, with a third review commissioned by editors in case of major disagreement between the two. The review process outcome can either be a) recommendation for publication, b) recommendation for publication after a partial revision, c) recommendation for publication after a thorough revision, or d) not recommending the paper for publication. The process from manuscript submission to the final publication typically takes around one year.
