Art & science

 
 
Ian Cheng - Forking at perfection
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Documenting Ian Cheng's latest “live simulations”—virtual living ecosystems in autonomous evolution—this monograph engages in a dialogue between art, new technologies and neurosciences.
Claudia Losi - How do I imagine being there?
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
What language should be used to describe a place? This question is the starting point and the core question of Claudia Losi's project and namesake book, a collection of transversal contributions, from art to geography, from semiotics to psychology, which interrogates the way we perceive places and the role of our imagination in such a process.
Inter - Addictions, drogue, création, conscience augmentée
2016
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Counterculture & cyberculture: exploring human potential from psychotropic substances to technological advances.
Daito Manabe - Transphère - Fertile Landscapes
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.
Simon Starling - A–Z
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A pocket, non illustrated mid-career catalogue raisonné of a practice now spanning over two decades.
Dominique Peysson - The Image-Matter - Emerging Materials & Imaginary Metamorphosis
2016
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
With its title echoing to Gilles Deleuze works The Movement Image and The Time Image, The Image-Matter, between philosophy, contemporary art and science, offers tools to create new mental images to understand this new vision of the world shaped by nanotechnologies and help us to do the necessary metamorphosis of our imaginary.
Dominique Peysson - L\'image-matière - Matériaux émergents et métamorphoses imaginaires
2016
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
With its title echoing to Gilles Deleuze works The Movement Image and The Time Image, The Image-Matter, between philosophy, contemporary art and science, offers tools to create new mental images to understand this new vision of the world shaped by nanotechnologies and help us to do the necessary metamorphosis of our imaginary.
Ilya Prigogine - Temps à devenir - À propos de l\'histoire du temps
2016
French edition
Clinamen
Transcript of a lecture given at the Musée de la Civilisation, Québec, in 1993, in which the scientist Ilya Prigogine suggests an understanding of time that isn't just a measuring variable but a real dimension whose most fertile property would be its irreversibility.
Olafur Eliasson - Baroque Baroque
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue documents the encounter between Eliasson's sensorial artworks and the baroquean atmosphere of Prince Eugene's Winter Palace in Vienna.
Benjamin H. Bratton - E-flux journal - Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
Benjamin H. Bratton's kaleidoscopic theory-fiction links the utopian fantasies of political violence with the equally utopian programs of security and control. Equal parts Borges, Burroughs, Baudrillard, and Black Ops, Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution charts a treacherous landscape filled with paranoid master plans, failed schemes, and dubious histories.
Espace(s) - Robots, cyborgs & autres compagnons
2016
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
Artistic and literary creations on the theme “cyborgs and robots.”
 Dexter Sinister - Universal Serial Bus (USB card)
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Released in parallel of an exhibition at Kunstverein München, this USB card gathers a collection of electronic works by Dexter Sinister produced from 2008 to 2015.
Cybernetics - The Macy Conferences – 1946-1953 – The Complete Transactions
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Sequenzia
Between 1946 and 1953, the Macy Conferences brought together a diverse and interdisciplinary community of researchers who together developed the basics of the new science of cybernetics. This publication contains the complete transcription and protocols of all contributions of one of the most important event in the contemporary history of science.
Peter Hutchinson - La Flèche de l\'amitié
2015
French edition
Mix
An unpublished novel by one of the great figures of Land art.
Paul-Armand Gette - Écrits lus
2015
French edition
various
25.00 12.00 €
A never-before-published selection of Paul-Armand Gette's lectures given between 1972 and 2015.
Christiane Geoffroy - On dirait que j\'étais... l\'archipel des Kerguelen
2015
French edition
Frac Réunion
A travel notebook covering the artist's stay in Kerguelen Islands, Indian Ocean.
Simon Starling - Peep-Hole Sheet - Woven Worlds – Some Notes on a Work in Progress
2015
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Taking as a starting point the description of an exhibition project, the British artist reflects on the creative process, serendipity, and writing as an exploratory tool in conceiving and creating a work.
Katrin Solhdju - L\'épreuve du savoir - Propositions pour une écologie du diagnostic
2015
French edition
Dingdingdong
Proposals for an ecology of diagnosis.
David Sillanoli - Courir après Ouma Kapal
2015
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
17.00 8.00 €
A tale on the search for an ancestral relic that has the power to annihilate the universe. At the crossroads of an adventure novel, a science-fiction narrative, and a punk story.
Ixiptla
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Ixiptla
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This second edition of Ixiptla takes the form of a newspaper to broadcast the multiplicity of views and experiences connected to the complex history of the objects shown in the exhibition “Parergon” at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
Carsten Höller - “Fara Fara” - A Film Not Made
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A photographic account of Carsten Höller's journeys to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the purpose of a film about Fara Fara music.
Hans Haacke - Esthétique des systèmes
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
First French translation of the two famous essays in which Jack Burnham draws the profile of an “aesthetic systems.”
N. Katherine Hayles - Parole, écriture, code
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
How the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing.
Friedrich Kittler - Mode protégé
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A reflection on the domination of the software industry on our use of computers, which calls for a stimulating reinterpretation of materialism.
Augustin Berque - Formes empreintes, formes matrices, Asie orientale
2015
French edition
Franciscopolis
Geographer, orientalist and philosopher Augustin Berque exposes the eastern foundation of his reflection on mesology, redefining the being (and the human subject) in its relation to the environment.
Neighborhood Technologies - Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks
2015
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
This collection of essays seeks to comprehensively address the concept of “neighborhood technologies” by establishing a platform for the thorough discussion of neighborhood concepts and notions across scientific cultures—e.g., computer science, mathematics, sociology, media and cultural studies, theater studies, and architecture.
João Maria Gusmão - Teoria Extraterrestre
2015
bilingual edition (English / French booklet)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Reference monograph.
Espace(s) - Rêves, révoltes, révolutions
2015
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
Outer space as the place for dreams, revolts, and revolutions: forty authors and artists explore utopian and political possibilities beyond earth.
À perte de vue - Les nouveaux paradigmes du visuel
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
A unique multidisciplinary approach to Visual Studies.
In the Holocene
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
In the Holocene is based on a 2012 group exhibition of the same name at the MIT List Visual Arts Center that explored art as a speculative science, investigating principles more commonly associated with scientific or mathematical thought.
Carsten Höller - Leben
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A catalogue / artist's book as puzzling and conceptually elaborate as the exhibition it accompanies.
Loris Gréaud - Crossfading (book / CD)
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dis Voir - ZagZig (books / CDs)
This audio art book documents an experiment in binaural sound by French artist Loris Gréaud performed around the world over five years. Using binaural beats, Crossfading guides the listener to the threshold of sleep. The book includes MRI images of the artist listening to the piece.
Loris Gréaud - Interzone - The Unplayed Notes Museum
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A notebook that combines text and collages to trace the imaginary history of the natural history museum created by Loris Gréaud at the Dallas Contemporary.
Loris Gréaud - Interzone - Copy - The Unplayed Notes Museum – Limited edition
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A notebook that combines text and collages to trace the imaginary history of the natural history museum created by Loris Gréaud at the Dallas Contemporary. Limited edition accompanied by a real butterfly, on black cardboard, unique piece.
 Magali Daniaux & Cédric Pigot - UV
2015
French edition
Supernova - Poetry and storytelling
A collection of hallucinatory epic poems inspired by crime novel & science fiction.
Tiphanie Mall - Ramsdorf
2015
no text
various
Artist's book featuring a selection of photographic archive from the European Organization for Nuclear Research: without the context of the archive or explanatory legends, the content becomes abstract and hypothetical, and plays with the representational capacity of the image and with the reception of information.
Tim Ingold - Intuitive Notebook #-2 - Diagrams, Drawings and Spaces – Le dédale et le labyrinthe : la marche et l\'éducation de l\'attention
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
Since his historical research on the line, anthropologist Tim Ingold has been working closely with laboratoire des intuitions on diagrams. This unpublished text follows a working session at the Kandinsky Library at Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Lionel Renck - Extimités
2015
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
First monograph: thirty-four watercolors summarizing Lionel Renck's three years research at ESAAA art school.
Maria Loboda - “How do we get out of all this darkness?”
2014
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue / artist's book.
Raphael Hefti -
2014
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
Based on a travelling exhibition, this small monograph includes an essay by Alex Farquharson, a conversation with Adam Szymczyk, and an essay by Harry Burke.
Peter Hutchinson - Dissoudre les nuages
2014
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' writings
Peter Hutchinson's writings.
Mark von Schlegell - Ickles, Etc. - Critical Spatial Practice 05
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Critical Spatial Practice
Mark von Schlegell's fusion of theory and fiction puts the SF back in notions of “speculative aesthetics.”
Loïc Rignol - Les Hiéroglyphes de la Nature - Le socialisme scientifique en France dans le premier XIXe siècle
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An epistemology of historical socialism (politics, natural sciences, humanities and religion in the early XIXth century).
Marc Décimo - Sciences et Pataphysique - Tome II : Comment la linguistique vint à Paris – De Michel Bréal à Ferdinand de Saussure
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
Science and Pataphysics, volume II: the birth of linguistics, as an academic field, in France, and the ideological and political issues that contribute to this implementation.
Marc Décimo - Sciences et Pataphysique - Tome I : Savants reconnus, érudits aberrés, fous littéraires, hétéroclites et celtomanes en quête d\'ancêtres hébreux, troyens, gaulois, francs, atlantes, animaux, végétaux, aryens, extraterrestres et autres ?
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
Science and Pataphysics, volume I: the history of the origin myths—how science is torn from what is now defined as pseudo-science.
Ixiptla
2014
English edition
Ixiptla
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
First issue of the biannual journal about trajectories of anthropology and archeology, initiated by Berlin-based Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball.
Espace(s) - Obsessions et fascinations
2014
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
For its ten-year anniversary, the magazine addresses the fascination and obsession towards the conquest of space. The issue invites Italian authors to discuss the subject of outer space, and artists in residence at the French Space Agency document their projects (Pierre Senges, Charles Pennequin, Jean Lambert-wild, Vannina Maestri, Éric Pessan).
Des savoirs bouleversés / Unsettled Knowledge
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A curatorial and editorial project which explores the propensity for artists to engage with knowledge from fields beyond their own area of specialism.
David Rabouin - Intuitive Notebook #-1 - Diagrams, Drawings and Spaces – Penser comme un pied
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
The first issue of the Intuitive Notebook's series of theoretical texts features an unpublished text by philosopher of mathematics David Rabouin on the relationships between mathematics, physicality, and intuition.
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