FLAT is a platform for theoretical and critical texts, interviews, reviews, projects, and experiments that engage with contemporary conversations surrounding emerging media in the arts. FLAT is open to submissions of writing, images, video, interactive works, and almost any possible form of web-based content from writers, artists, and thinkers around the world. Please see open calls for specific information about what themes and media we are accepting at this time. Contributors to FLAT include theorists, technologists, and artists from the UCLA community, the greater Los Angeles area, and beyond. FLAT was founded in 2018 and is designed, curated, and produced by faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and alumnx from UCLA’s department of Design Media Arts.
FLAT is made possible through the support of the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts and the UCLA Arts Conditional Studio.
ISSN: 2766-9424
Open Access Policy
This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. The journal allows readers to read, download, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. Requests for permission to reuse the articles should be sent to the author(s).
Copyright and Licenses
Authors retain copyright but grant exclusive first publication rights and a non-exclusive license to have the work reproduced in other ways, including in electronic databases and on-line. Once an author’s work has been published, the author is free to use it in any way they wish, so long as that use is consistent with the license given to FLAT Journal to continue to use the work for the duration of its copyright in all languages, throughout the world, in all media. The journal does require that authors acknowledge in subsequent works the publication of earlier versions in FLAT Journal.
The author may include the officially published version of the article (version of record) in an institutional or disciplinary repository, provided the posting includes a prominent statement of the full bibliographical details, and a link to the online edition of the journal.