About the Journal

Umática is a publication focused on the study and critical analysis of the image, artistic creation, and audiovisual production, proposing a transversal approach from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Umática is a refereed scientific journal whose mission is to publish, disseminate and promote texts and essays on theory, art, aesthetics, and contemporary visual culture aimed at researchers in the field of image, sound, arts, and visual culture,

The editorial profile focuses on the processes of creation, analysis, and distribution of contemporary creation through media and other hybrid languages made possible by technology. In this sense, at the discretion of the editorial team and review process, it proposes three types of submissions for publication: Research articles, Visual Essay, and Artistic Creation Projects

Funded by: Department of Art and Architecture, University of  Málaga

Published by : UMA Editorial (Universidad de Málaga)

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Announcements

‘Umática. Revista sobre Creación y Análisis de la Imagen’ receives the FECYT Seal of Quality (9th edition)

2025-12-20

The Directorate General of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) has awarded 'Umática. Revista sobre Creación y Análisis de la Imagen' has been awarded the FECYT Seal of Quality (9th edition). This seal endorses and recognises the quality and work carried out by the entire Umática editorial team, the guest editors, the entire scientific committee, the indispensable team of reviewers who have collaborated on each issue, our design team, the support of the Publications Service of the University of Malaga and, above all, the contribution of the authors who have so generously collaborated on each issue.

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Current Issue

No. 8 (2025): The arts at the intersection. Hybridisations and intermedial proposals in contemporary art

In recent decades, and particularly significantly in the context of digital culture, contemporary artistic practices have intensified the processes of crossing, shifting and overflowing the disciplinary boundaries that traditionally structured them. This edition of Umática positions itself within the domain of intersection, addressing propositions that can only be comprehended through a formal, medial and material hybridisation. These propositions no longer function as marginal variations of a discipline, but as practices constituted from the in-between, the crossing and the instability of languages.

The texts gathered here explore concepts such as medium, work, authorship, materiality, perception and aesthetic experience, challenging the established categorical frameworks that have historically been used to conceptualise the arts. A pivotal theme within the volume pertains to the re-evaluation of the modes of perception and attention that emerge in these hybrid practices. These practices, therefore, emerge as pivotal spaces for the destabilisation of sensory and epistemic hierarchies, as well as for the exploration of alternative modes of relating to the visible, the audible, and the legible, and the facilitation of these processes.

The present monograph proposes to address hybridisation not only as a formal category, but also as a field of theoretical, aesthetic and political friction from which to rethink contemporary arts. The collection of contributions does not offer closed taxonomies; rather, it forms an open space for reflection. This space invites the reader to approach current creation from the perspective of complexity, the intersection of knowledge, and the constant questioning of disciplinary boundaries.

Editors:

  • Marina Hervás (Universidad de Granada, España)
  • Rosa Benéitez Andrés (Universidad de Salamanca, España)
Published: 2025-12-05
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