AccScience Publishing

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, 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

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

2. Ownership

The journal is owned by Accscience Publishing, with academic support from College of Arts, Xiamen University.

3. Publishing Model

Gold open access. All articles published by AC are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately from the date of publication. For further information, please refer to Open Access.

4. Copyright and License to Publish

License
Articles in AC are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The CC BY 4.0 allows for maximum dissemination and re-use of open access materials and is preferred by many research funding bodies. Under this license, users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) and remix (adapt) the contribution for any purposes, even commercially, provided that the users appropriately acknowledge the original authors and the source.

5. Editorial Board

For more information about the editorial team, please refer to Editorial Board.

6. Editorial Policies

All manuscripts submitted to AC should adhere to AccScience Publishing's Editorial Policies.

7. Manuscript Processing System

ASP serves a diverse global community of scholars, committed to freely sharing cutting-edge research under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. To enhance the precision, academic rigor, and timeliness of our publications, we have developed the proprietary, cutting-edge manuscript processing system known as the OSS (Online Submission System).

8. Peer Review

The journal adheres to rigorous peer review and undergoes double-blind peer review. For more details, please refer to Editorial Process.

9. Publication Ethics Statement

AC adheres to the Code of Conduct and the Best Practice Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The Editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to contribute to the field of scholarly publication by publishing high-quality scientific works. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The Editors of AN take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to deal with such cases with a zero-tolerance policy. To verify the originality of the content submitted to the journal, we use CrossCheck (powered by iThenticate) to check submissions against previous publications. For more details, please refer to Research and Publication Ethics.