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Open Call: Texts for Interdisciplinary Publication
Billboards, Belief, Semiotics, and Manufactured Paradise

Paradise has always been an image problem. From gold-ground mosaics that flatten time into shimmer, to Renaissance gardens that diagram blessed order, to cloudy Baroque ceilings that split open the roof, art has repeatedly treated heaven as a visual regime, a set of cues that trained the eye toward longing.

Nearly a century into the capitalist project, paradise appears again, not as fresco but as advertisement. Heaven slipped off the church ceiling and onto the interstate, lit from within, laminated, twenty feet tall. Then it slipped again into our phones, compressed, personalized, and infinitely refreshed.

Deep Focus is a volunteer-run initiative that aims to provide a platform for contemporary moving image and to add to the contemporary discourse by showcasing various forms, aesthetics, voices and perspectives. We wish to provide networking opportunities for artists working in Moving Image and to introduce contemporary Artists’ Moving Image to a wider audience.