Arts & Communication is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing scholarly understanding of art across its theoretical, historical, educational, and communicative dimensions. The journal publishes original research examining how artistic practices, visual cultures, performing arts, media forms, and aesthetic forms are produced, interpreted, taught, circulated, and transformed across cultural, institutional, digital, and global contexts

The journal is committed to scholarship that is innovative, inclusive, and interdisciplinary. It welcomes research that bridges Eastern and Western traditions, engages both historical and contemporary perspectives, and addresses the relationships between art and the broader social, technological, and political forces that shape human experience. Arts & Communication provides an international platform for sustained dialogue across the traditional boundaries of art history, visual culture studies, art education, design, media, and communication studies.

The journal is particularly interested in work that advances critical and cross-cultural inquiry, including research on digital and emerging media in art and education, the global circulation of art and cultural heritage, and the role of art in addressing questions of identity, equity, and social change.

Topics Covered

1. Art Theory, History, and Criticism

· Art theory, aesthetics, and philosophy of art

· Art history, historiography, and visual culture studies

· Postcolonial, decolonial, and feminist art histories

· Comparative aesthetics across Eastern and Western traditions

· Ecocriticism and environmental aesthetics

· Art criticism and curatorial practice

· Architecture, material culture, and archaeology

2. Art Education and Pedagogy

· Art education across formal and informal learning contexts

· Aesthetic education and arts-based research

· Digital and critical pedagogies in art education

· Culturally sustaining and inclusive arts education

· Museum, gallery, and community arts education

· Teacher education and professional development in the arts

· Assessment and evaluation in arts learning

3. Art, Communication, and Media

· Art and technology, including digital and new media art

· Social media, algorithms, and visual culture

· Intercultural and cross-cultural visual communication

· Documentary, photography, and lens-based practices

· Interactive, participatory, and game-based media as art

· Posthuman and AI-mediated art practices

· Art dissemination, publishing, and public discourse

· Film, theatre, and music studies, including audiovisual arts, performance studies, and sound culture

· Digital games, interactive experiences, and immersive media as emerging forms of artistic expression and cultural communication

· Interdisciplinary research on artistic expression across visual, performing, and media arts

· Dance, choreography, and movement-based performance, including screendance and interdisciplinary choreographic practices

· Sound art, radio, and podcasting as auditory and time-based artistic forms

4. Art Practice, Industry, and Society

· Artistic creation, design, and embodied practices

· Public art, urbanism, and community engagement

· Social justice, activist art, and identity politics

· Art therapy, creativity, and health and well-being

· Art market, economics, law, and intellectual property

· Cultural heritage, traditional arts, and material culture

· Performing arts, media production, and audience engagement in contemporary cultural contexts

· Craft, textile, ceramic, and applied and decorative arts

· Literary, narrative, and text-based arts, including poetry, artists’ books, comics, and graphic narrative

5. Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives

· World art studies and transnational art histories

· Diaspora, displacement, and transcultural artistic identity

· Indigenous art practices and knowledge systems

· Art, cultural diplomacy, and international arts policy

· Global circulation of art, media, and cultural heritage