The ARTIS, Art History Institute at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, will publish in the current year of 2026, issue No. 17 of ARTis ON, an electronic journal dedicated to the dissemination of studies in Art History, Heritage Sciences, and Art Markets.

The new issue will focus on the theme ART AND SCIENCE. The interaction between Art and Science, understood in a broad, historical, and contemporary sense. Far from conceiving these domains as autonomous or opposed spheres, this issue seeks to explore the multiple ways in which artistic and scientific practices have intersected, entered into dialogue, and, in many instances, mutually constituted one another. The interaction between Art and Science, understood in a broad, historical, and contemporary sense. Far from conceiving these domains as autonomous or opposed spheres, this issue seeks to explore the multiple ways in which artistic and scientific practices have intersected, entered into dialogue, and, in many instances, mutually constituted one another.

Throughout history, art has not been limited to illustrating scientific knowledge, just as science has not been confined to providing technical instruments for artistic practice. Both share modes of observation, experimentation, world-modelling, and knowledge production. This issue of ARTis ON thus aims to consider art as a form of knowledge, science as a cultural and visual practice, and the intermediate spaces in which these dimensions intersect, translate, and continuously reinvent themselves.

We therefore invite researchers to submit their proposals. The theme statement welcomes diverse approaches, including, but not limited to:

• Historical relations between art and science (Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Modernity, and the Contemporary period);
• Art as experimental practice, visual laboratory, or form of research;
• Pictorial science, optics, geometry, perspective, anatomy, and cosmography;
• Scientific visuality and the production of images of knowledge;
• Artist-scientists, scientist-artists, and figures of intellectual mediation;
• Knowledge transfer, circulation of ideas, and trading zones between disciplines;
• Epistemology of the image, regimes of visibility, and visual culture;
• Art, technology, science, and critical thought in the contemporary world.

Other aspects related to art and sciencewill also be considered.

Articles related to the theme will be accepted until 30 June 2026, following the journal’s submission guidelines, available at:
https://artis-on.letras.ulisboa.pt/index.php/aio/about/submissions

In the same timeframe, short articles for the Varia section, which do not need to adhere to the central theme of the journal, will also be accepted.

By 31 July 2025, the results of blind peer reviews will be announced to the authors.

Proposals must be submitted exclusively through the journal's platform.