Art & medias / information / communication / media studies
2017
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Christophe Daviet-Théry
This artist's book questions the status of the image in the digital era through a reinterpretation of a classical subject in art history: flowers and the female figure. Images of flowers and women are associated with backgrounds of a city landscape, including photographs of the Capitol Records building in LA.
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The Rough Law of Gardens documents Olaf Holzapfel and Nahum Tevet's eponymous joint exhibition and explores the intergenerational differences between two unique artists. Both artists' work rejects the global logic of growth and traverses the bounds of sculpture and painting: each of their practices involves ideas to do with materiality, learning, and memory.
2017
English edition
Nero
This artist's book reactivates a press controversy which took place in 1970s London and affected the Tate Galleries' collecting strategies—in particular, the acquisition of Equivalent VIII, a work by minimalist artist Carl Andre made in firebrick.
2017
English edition
Neural
Propaganda issue, with Italian sociologist and marketing strategist Andrea Natella as special editor: interviews with Natella, Fatima Al Qadiri, Brandalism, Jonas Staal; Is there something outside the hyperstition? On accelerationism and propaganda; Mapping the “Alt-Right;” Insider Trading Terrorism; Bello Figo, the Italian Pop Star of Over-Identification; reports from WRO 2017 Biennale and Transmediale 2017.
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
How technologies of image-capture and the channels of communication have in recent years transformed the very terms of human rights.
2017
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Editions Lutanie
currently out of stock
Arcana 2 is the second volume of a series of books designed to mount an archive of the present through a collection of emblematic documents of the twenty-first century, culled from the media, advertising, and the Internet. Based on the Nordic myth of Odin, this volume investigates the contemporary representation of the male body.
2017
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Editions Lutanie
Arcana 3 is part of a series of books designed to mount an archive of the present through a collection of emblematic documents of the twenty-first century, culled from the media, advertising, and the Internet. This third volume focuses on advertising imagery targeting women.
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Taking as a starting point Hamilton's “Reaper” series—inspired by the work of Swiss historian and critic of architecture Sigfried Giedion—this publication brings together seven essays by renowned international scholars, all of whom question the relationships between visual arts, technology, science, and architecture.
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The work of Austrian artist Christoph Meier examines space as a site of social interaction and interrogates the conditions of contemporary art production and presentation. This exhibition catalogue provides multiple entry points to his practice, with three in-depth articles by Vanessa Joan Müller, Anna Nowak, and Thomas D. Trummer, and an interview with the artist.
2017
French edition
United Dead Artists
The new edition of a 1972 publication gathering a series of drawings and texts by Roland Topor in collaboration with his five-year-old son Nicolas.
2017
French edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Eight slogans from the May 68 events in France, in duplex printing (artist's book).
2017
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
Quoting excerpts from Keller Easterling's 2014 essay Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space, this coloring book tells the story of two characters, a fox (the artist) and a cat, and their special relationship, made of exotic travels, dreams and nightmares, struggles and desires.
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
First monographic catalogue dedicated to the works of multidisciplinary artist Darja Bajagić who culls her imagery from fan-gore magazines, true-crime TV shows, fetish websites, obscure online forums, and hidden chat rooms tucked away in the darker reaches of the Web.
2017
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Connectivity and artistic practices.
2017
French edition
Confort Moderne
Halfway between the catalogue and the artist's book, this publication introduces the work of Cindy Coutant. The French artist focuses on issues involving poetics and semantics, in connection with the new technologies and the Internet imagery.
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An interdisciplinary reflection on the new figures of subjectivity in the digital age.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Perrotin
First retrospective monograph dedicated to the “agency” created in 1984 by Jean-François Brun, Dominique Pasqualini and Philippe Thomas: an immersion into the collective's history through numerous press archives and exhibition views. The publication also includes an unpublished interview with Brun and Pasqualini, and a glossary.
2017
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
(last copies available!)
In Diary of a Leap Year, Lebanese artist produces 366 daily collages from political newspapers in Lebanon and the Arab World, as a protest to the violence taking place in this region.
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
New monograph.
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Retrospective catalogue (new edition).
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
Finnish media theorist discusses slow violence & environmental crisis through the prism of art, design, and technological practices.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An artist's book / catalogue exploring the new role of the image in a world modeled by visual artifacts.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
New collection of essays by Boris Groys in which the philosopher discusses the works and artists that influenced his thinking, from Paweł Althamer to Andy Warhol.
2016
English edition
Kayfa ta
In this post-truth era, how does one navigate the endless information available and choose a viable narrative of reality? In How to Know What's Really Happening Glasgow-based writer and curator Francis McKee looks at various techniques for determining verity, from those of spy agencies and whistle-blowers to mystics and scientists.
2016
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Edition Patrick Frey
Photographic essay featuring pictures of inactive TV sets: a powerful semiotic reflection on the medium and its design.
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
The Futures of Screen: an aesthetic and technical analysis.
2016
French edition
L'Incroyable
L'Incroyable - L'Incroyable (magazine)
L'Incroyable is a monographic magazine dedicated to an artist's teenage years and his cultural background. This second issue focuses on Jim Shaw's Californian youth between the late 1950s and the beginning of the 1970s.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
Crossing perspectives on living among screens.
2016
French edition
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
A series of photographs taken in the margins of the 63rd Bilderberg conference, which brings together some of the most influential political and economic leaders of the Western world.
2016
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Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Reprint of the multiple produced by Philippe Cazal in 1972.
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The publication follows investigations lead by LOOP—a platform dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image—and questions the act of collecting artists' films and videos.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This catalogue documents the eponymous double exhibition examining the ambivalent notions of transparency and opacity in the globalized world and their reflection in the work of contemporary artists.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
New monograph: Josephine Meckseper's work exposes the paradoxes of consumer culture through the combination of mass-produced objects with images and artefacts of historical and political events.
2016
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Editions Lutanie
Artist's book by French filmmaker Virgil Vernier, Arcana I is the first of a series of books designed to build up an archive of the present time through a collection of emblematic documents from the 21st century produced by media, advertising and Internet. Arcana I gathers images of luxury watches cut out from magazines, with no typographical mention so to reveal the peculiar aura of these objects.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
10.00 5.00 €
The catalogue of Daito Manabe & Motoi Ishibashi's first exhibition in France. On this occasion they created an installation using LED lights and smartphones—a new work combining the real and the virtual, the seen and the unseen. This volume also gives an overall comprehension of Manabe and Ishibashi's practice: together they merge art and technology in projects that are at the cutting edge of innovation.
2016
English edition
Dis Voir - Figures
This magazine-style artist's book by European contemporary artist Nicole Tran Ba Vang parodies the stereotypes and prejudices of advertising and fashion, exploring the fantasies of a consumer society.
2016
French edition
Dis Voir - Figures
This magazine-style artist's book by European contemporary artist Nicole Tran Ba Vang parodies the stereotypes and prejudices of advertising and fashion, exploring the fantasies of a consumer society.
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
The emergence of the new digital technologies and social media has transformed the very concept of the mass gathering. The present volume brings together a collection of studies that analyze this transformation and seize the opportunity to reevaluate the cultural and medial historiography of the masses.
2016
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
Anarchive
The groundbreaking work of Masaki Fujihata presented as an immersive intermedia experience through augmented reality technology (retrospective monograph under the form of a ring binder, with a dedicated AR application).
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
Elisabeth Bronfen gives a clever analysis on one of the most influential show of the 21th century, arguing that, beyond the retro-revival, Mad Men builds a comment on the state of the US nation and on the mirage of the American Dream.
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
A luxurious artist book by Michael Manning gathering a selection of 100 digital drawings, each from four distinct series of paintings.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Délashiné!
An introduction to the work of a pioneer in media, cinema and sport criticism in Japan, whose thinking deeply marked the counter-culture movements of the 60's.
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.
2015
bilingual edition (Catalan / French)
Jannink - Wide Open
Publication based on the eponymous series of works (“The Catalan painting lesson”, a devious and ironic presentation of traditional standards of academic painting), with an interview and commissioned essays by Brigitte Léal and Pierre Restany.
2015
French edition
Villa Arson
This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian) / texts in Chinese, Filipino, Arabic
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho invited four other international artists from three different countries to participate at an artist's residency in Milan. Their preliminary idea was to think communication issues and artwork's ability to materialize the various forms of exchange. This catalogue covers the exhibition that followed this residency.
2015
texts in English and French
Jannink - L'art en écrit
An artist's book based on excerpts and quotes from Matthieu Laurette's interviews, randomly arranged.
2015
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
An artist's book based on excerpts and quotes from Matthieu Laurette's interviews, randomly arranged, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
The guide of the video and digital art collection.