Guest editor: Aleksander Wójtowicz
Issue editors: Marta Baron-Milian, Piotr Gorliński-Kucik

The archive as a category has come to the fore in the last decade in humanities. Along with it, a wide range of issues also emerged, including, but not limited to, materiality of literature, genetic criticism (Pierre-Marc de Biasi, Jean Bellemin-Noël, Daniel Ferrer), politics of the page (George Bornstein), practices of experiencing collections (Carolyn Steedman), the involvement of the body in creative process and the possibilities of somatic criticism (Adam Dziadek), or the production of knowledge (Michel Foucault) and the mechanisms of memory (Jacques Derrida). Nevertheless, it is still too early to form a conclusive summation of the "archival turn" (Danuta Ulicka) due to the constant unfolding of innovative research perspectives. The last year, however, caused us to perceive the archive in slightly different categories. The current pandemic isolated us from material collections and, at the same time, directed our attention towards collections of a different kind. What seemed particularly interesting to us while utilising such perspective, was the "transmediality of the archive"– the nature and function of the archive and archival materials, undergoing constant remediation and trans-coding, constantly situated in space “between the media.” 
In the next issue of “Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne” we would like to scrutinise materiality of the archive, revealing itself in its inter and transmedia form, where audiovisual, photographic and digital (or other) intermediaries transfer the sphere of  materiality of the archive into the area of constant media interactions and transmedial "flows." We observe how the digitisation of collections becomes not only a practice, but also a metaphor, placing itself at the very heart of digital humanities. In our proposed inquiry, we include digitally and audiovisually mediated archives, as well as archival "interfaces" and catalogues, interrogating how they change the experience of the archive and how they interfere with the processes of reading, analysis and interpretation. We are therefore interested in the dynamics of change in the field of archiving "devices"– the relationship between mechanical reproduction and the materiality of collections.
It seems equally important to place the reflection on the "transmediality of the archive" in the social and political perspective. We are simultaneously interested in the archives as private collections of documents as well as them being the cultural, social and political institutions. This in turn provokes questions about the extent to which archives become spaces of democratisation and cooperation, how the policies of the archive (and memory) work between the media, what roles are performed by various types of selection and control mechanisms, and how relations between the archival “enclave” and the intermedia culture of participation and free access constantly change. We would also like to go a step further and inquire about the aesthetic and affective influence of transmedia archiving practices, alongside the artistic potential of digital collections and the archival remediation. What seems particularly interesting to us is the issue of materiality of the archive in intermedia artistic practices, especially its performative potential, often manifested in avant-garde or neo-avant-garde texts, alongside other creative pursuits in art. Finally, we would like to invite you to contemplate the nature and functioning of matters such as concept, figure, metaphor and the archival space in relation to transmedia narratives and artistic practices.

The deadline for the submission of proposals with abstracts is June 15, 2021.
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