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 General Idea - A Retrospective (1969-1994)
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Retrospective catalogue (new edition).
Jussi Parikka - The Contemporary Condition - A Slow, Contemporary Violence – Damaged Environments of Technological Culture
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.
Katja Novitskova - Dawn Mission
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.
Boris Groys - Particular Cases
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.
Daniela Comani - Sunsets
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.
Jean-Louis Boissier - L\'écran comme mobile
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
The Futures of Screen: an aesthetic and technical analysis.
Caméra(Auto)Contrôle (+ 2 books)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
Exhibition Guide from the Triennal 50JPG 2016 – 50 Days for Photography in Geneva, accompanied by the two artist's books published on the occasion of the exhibitions, Giacomo Bianchetti – Bilderberg 2015 et Sébastien Reuzé – Indian Springs (bundle).
Jim Shaw - L\'incroyable
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.
Vivre par(mi) les écrans
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
Crossing perspectives on living among screens.
Giacomo Bianchetti - Bilderberg 2015 - 63ème conférence Bilderberg – 11-14 juin 2015
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.
Philippe Cazal - Semaine fermée
2016
no text
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Reprint of the multiple produced by Philippe Cazal in 1972.
I Have a Friend Who Knows Someone Who Bought a Video, Once - On Collecting Video Art
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.
Transparenzen / Transparencies - The Ambivalence of a New Visibility
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.
Josephine Meckseper - 10 minutes after
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.
Virgil Vernier - Arcana 1
2016
no text
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.
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.
Nicole Tran Ba Vang - Revue - This is not a magazine
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.
Nicole Tran Ba Vang - Revue - Ceci n\'est pas un magazine
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.
Social Media - New Masses
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.
Masaki Fujihata -
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).
Elisabeth Bronfen - Mad Men, Death and the American Dream
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.
Michael Manning - 100 Paintings
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.
Michael Lucken - Nakai Masakazu - Naissance de la théorie critique au Japon
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.
 Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - The Rumors of  the World - Rethinking Trust in the Age of the Internet
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.
Joan Rabascall - La leçon de peinture catalane / La llicó de pintura catalana
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.
 Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - Les rumeurs du monde - Repenser la confiance à l\'âge de l\'Internet
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.
RR ZZ
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.
Matthieu Laurette - Random (Demix)
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.
Matthieu Laurette - Random (Demix) - Limited edition
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.
Collect Digital Video Art
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
The guide of the video and digital art collection.
Jean-Christophe Averty - Initiales - Initiales J.C.A.
2015
French edition
Initiales
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
6th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Jean-Christophe Averty.
Toys Redux - An Anthology on Play as Critical Action
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
This catalogue interrogates the notion of play in contemporary art, bringing together artists who use formats and imagery from popular culture usually addressed to children or teenagers.
Justin Lieberman - The Corrector\'s Custom Pre-Fab House
2015
texts in English and French
Confort Moderne
A 300 page pulp book, compiling a series of 230 short texts by Justin Lieberman in alphabetical order, as well as an essay telling the story of a now-destroyed installation piece, to which the texts were originally related: “The Corrector's Custom Pre-Fab House”. The texts, with their sarcastic tone, can be read autonomously: they are a meditation on capitalism and material culture, between poetry, description and fiction.
Antoine Dufeu - Sic - Suivi de Zastava ? Je répondis (si) sottement
2015
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A fiction reflecting on the issues of language and information.
Jack Burnham - 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.”
Le sujet digital
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An interdisciplinary reflection on the new figures of subjectivity in the digital age.
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.
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.
Erik Steinbrecher - Hits
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Artist's book.
Liz Magic Laser - Public Relations / Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Liz Magic Laser's recent works.
Peter Piller - Materialien (F) - Nachkriegsordnung
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
The press photographs reproduced in this publication show the bombing of Bagdad. They were taken from German newspapers soon after the beginning of the second iraqi-american war in March of 2003. Following their removal they were placed and stuck in the centre of a piece of paper, aiming to be as precise as possible (artist's book).
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.
Maria Loboda - “How do we get out of all this darkness?”
2014
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue / artist's book.
Parachute - The Anthology (vol. 3) – Photography, Film, Video, and New Media
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Third volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on photography, film, video, and new media.
 Gavillet & Rust - 30 ans du FRAC Champagne-Ardenne - Adams x Burr x De Cointet x Coplans x Cordebard x Craven x Dheurle x Durham x Filliou x Fontcuberta x General Idea x Hains x Hains x Hains x Kasten x Majerus x Majerus x Rondeau x Wall x Welling
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Champagne-Ardenne
A replay of the collection of the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne by Swiss graphic design studio Gavillet & Rust.
Thomas Ruff - Zeitungsfotos - Newspaper Photographs
2014
English edition
various
Artist's book.
 Willem - Les emmerdeurs - Limited edition
2014
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Limited edition accompanied by an original and unique signed artwork, hand colored comic strip box.
 Willem - Les emmerdeurs
2014
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Willem's satirical drawings on art.
W. J. T. Mitchell - Que veulent les images ? - Une critique de la culture visuelle
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
An innovative analysis of our relationship to the image.
Micronaut is against the grain too
2014
French edition
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
A critical approach to practices of photographic representation and information.
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