炯炯有神 。。。Let things glimmer in your gaze.

Submissions to Sine Theta Magazine's 31st issue, themed “GAZE 神,” are officially open! Thanks to our Patreon subscribers, Sine Theta Magazine is a paying publication—all contributors will receive a $10 USD honorarium.

A slice of sky reflected in a puddle, transforming it into a mirror or a portal. What do you see? When you look out, what looks back? Our next issue converges around the idea of the gaze; we want work that refracts, dilates, captures a moment with a flash. Illuminate the hidden, invisible, illusionary, kaleidoscopic. Build us an idol, or cut one apart. Dig into the dissemination of culture and mass media, the reproduction of an image. Hold a shining night in your palm forever.

Submissions are due MONDAY, 1 APRIL 2024, at 11:59 PM PST to sinethetamag@gmail.com for full consideration of your work(s). Visit our submissions guidelines for more details. Feel free to DM or email us with any questions you may have; we welcome pitches sent ahead of the deadline!

Those submitting may wish to consider the following prompts:

glass - windows - mirrors - one-way mirrors - interrogation rooms / the camera as object - histories of photography - photography without cameras / roland barthes’ camera lucida (1980) - studium and punctum / the oppositional gaze - the gaze in psychoanalysis - the gaze in jean-paul sartre’s work / anime eyes / divinity and the divine - idolatry - iconoclasm / voyeurism - peeping tom / to be in good spirits / mental illness and neurodivergence / deviance - misbehavior - rebellion / color theory - theories by aristotle, goëthe, newton / invisibility - opacity in édouard glissant’s work / critiques of representasian (diasporic asian representation politics) / lens flares / astigmatism - myopia - colorblindness - other eye conditions - snellen charts, autorefractors, and other opticians’ tests / blind and partially sighted perspectives / opera glasses - monocles - 3d movie glasses - telescopes - microscopes - AR and VR tools / cctv - surveillance - panopticon / patterns - motifs / rose-tinted glasses / optical illusions - ambigrams / bird’s eye view - cartography and maps / georges bataille’s story of the eye (1928) - un chien andalou (1929) dir. luis buñuel - powers of ten (1968/1977) dir. ray and charles eames / visual culture, mass culture, popular culture - posters and print culture - ephemera / legal witnessing - body cameras / read receipts - leaving someone on read