Art & medias / information / communication / media studies

An essay by the distinguished philosopher and theorist of art and media on the current evolution and possible future of museum collections practices and strategies.

A selection of René Berger's lectures and the proceedings of a symposium he had organized around art, technology and communication.

This first comprehensive survey of Joseph Kosuth's work with public media centers on his pioneering project The Second Investigation (1968–74).

A very special overview of the work of a new media art pioneer: snapshots from all over the world, paintings, collages, graphic and ornamental works, and various artifacts from the artist's collections, which include everything from old magazines to fabric patterns.

Olaf Holzapfel's textile works made from cactus fibre together with a family of traditional weavers from Argentina.

First French translation of a seminal text of media theory, which this edition contextualizes, notably through the debate it provoked with Baudrillard.

Monograph dedicated to Jim Shaw's “Paperback Covers” key series.

A nonsense opera (artist's book).

The publication studies four aspects of the practice turn in media studies: Media history from a praxeological perspective, the practice turn in religion and media studies, the connecting and dividing lines of media theories concerning gender and post-colonial agencies, and a historical and theoretical examination of the current relationship of media theory and practice theory.

Olaf Holzapfel's and Guido Yannitto's textile works.

New monograph / catalogue.

This first monograph of the international net art pioneer allows us to (re)discover this always contemporary artistic practice, inviting us to plunge into the specificities of the internet medium (flows, URLs, protocols, etc.), and sketching a media archaeology.

First issue of the international journal on amateur and DIY media.

This monographic study catalogs, explores, and interprets the manifold manifestations of music in Thomas Pynchon's novels.

Gathering found visual material, this publication retraces the story of an artistic failure: that of a joint project by Federico Pepe and his father Antonio, a cabinet of curiosities featuring latex sculptures of fetuses looking like Mickey Mouse.

An in-depth history of the landmark situationist international periodical edited by artist Jacqueline de Jong from 1962–67. This lavishly illustrated publication features many previously unseen archival material, historical texts and new commissioned contributions.

A manifesto for artistic research and in defense of its autonomy.

Box set comprising five books, a vinyl and a supplementary dust jacket, each highlighting different practices and transformative developments occurring in the realm of writing and speaking today as triggered by digital communication.

A proposal for a radio project on the diffusion of world music in the digital age, focusing on the concept of “seismographic sound”.

New works on paper.

Two texts by New York artist Zoe Beloff, pioneer in the field of “media archeology”, whose works are at the crossroads of avant-garde art, popular cultures and critical theory.

This Is Television addresses the increasingly obsolete medium of television by way of the medium of the book, commenting on media's continuous changes of form and format. Through an interplay of theory and artistic research material, the book extends Judy Radul's ongoing investigation of media with an idiosyncratic perspective on television—while still feeding off collective experience. The book thematizes television as a cultural container, both in its format as a box for content and as an ideologically saturated apparatus for reception.

A book of portraits with a difference, culled from a 2002–2018 photo archive of porn actors who resemble or actually even portray celebrities and public figures. Polish artist Piotr Uklański draws on a stock of hard and soft copies of “dirty” glossy men's magazines like Hustler and Loaded—as well as a plethora of meme culture material dumped on websites and blogs.

A panorama of the world of do-it-yourself fanzines.