Now Available... Chain 10: Translucinacióndetails at http://www.temple.edu/chain NEW: free pdf version of the entire issue available for non-u.s. $ economy readers! **** Call for Work for Chain 11 As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.--John Dewey, Art as Experience Nobody knows who the public is or what it wants or needs.--David Antin If you are a reader of Chain, we would be pleased to read your work for Chain 11: PUBLIC FORMS. We are interested in pieces that address what is commonly called public art--visual artworks that are publicly displayed and frequently supported by public funds--but also various forms of art that happen outside of usual performance and publication contexts such as street art, political speeches, poster campaigns, architectural design, mail art, community theater, speaker's corners, poetry written for specific public occasions, etc. In other words, this issue will investigate art that is created for communities or "the public" in its broader definitions. We also encourage a variety of "reports from the field," where artists observe how public art functions in their local environments. Such reports could take any genre or form, visual or textual. Reports from outside the United States are especially welcome. Please be aware that we can only print visual images in black and white. Send two copies of your submission and two copies of your cover letter toCHAIN (c/o Jena Osman)English DepartmentTempleAnderson Hall (022-29)1114 W. Berks St.Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090. Deadline: December 1, 2003 If you have questions, send them to josman@temple.edu and spahr@hawaii.edu. But please, NO email submissions (we tend to lose them). Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you would like your work returned. Do not send us originals. We read work in December and then contact everyone in early February at the latest. GENERAL GUIDELINES: Please look at past issues of Chain to see the sort of work we tend to publish. We welcome submissions from writers and artists who we do not know, who have never published before, who write in languages other than English, who write in unusual forms, etc. We enjoy reading new work. But we only accept work that somehow comments on the topic of each issue. If this is likely to not be obvious to us, then you might want to explain how it engages the topic. If you find our journal interesting enough for you to entrust your work to it, we encourage you to subscribe. Our continued existence, and continued ability to read your work, depends mainly on subscriptions. We tend to privilege mixed media and collaborative work. We can accept work submitted on floppy disks, zip disks, and cd-rom but we need to see a paper copy with your submission. We do not accept submissions by email (we tend to lose them when this happens). We only print work that is black and white. Our page size is 6"x9" with 1" inside margin and 3/4" outside margins. If you design work for our page and require specific fonts, you must supply pagemaker files with postcript fonts.