Art & science

The most accessible introduction to the life and work of James Lovelock (1919-2022), and a guide to address today's "polycrisis."

How the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing.

A reflection on the domination of the software industry on our use of computers, which calls for a stimulating reinterpretation of materialism.

The art of the tuning fork: the manifesto of the sound artist, performer and composer Nicolas Bernier.

The Italian artist's research around the issues of normativity and the institutional stigmatization of mental illness.

Art historian and philosopher Horst Bredekamp reveals the importance of visual analysis and the central role of images in the development of the philosophical thought of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Relying mainly on the Leibnizian concept of the monad and on the Theater of Nature and Art, elaborated by the German philosopher and scientist from 1671 until his death, Bredekamp places Leibniz as a precursor of the theory of the image.

A survey of the abstract and contemplative work of Pakistani artist Imran Mir (1950-2014), with fifteen essays.

The portfolio of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, the first major retrospective in France on the filmmaker and biologist specializing in underwater fauna Jean Painlevé (1902-1989), considered one of the founding fathers of scientific cinema and a source of inspiration for the avant-gardes and the surrealist movement.

The very first major monograph of Paul-Armand Gette.

Both a cinematographic work diary, a travel diary and a private diary, Climatic Species is made up of multiple stories where each thread unfurls at its own rhythm.

A multi-format (a vinyl record, a publication and an installation) and multidisciplinary project with an approach between science, technology and the arts, in dialogue with contemporary thinkers. The vinyl LP gathers a set of sound pieces made by twelve musicians with whom Lamas collaborated.

The reissue of the compositions for tape and voice of Ursula Bogner (1946-1994), scientist, phamarcian, artist, "outsider" experimental musician fascinated by Wilhelm Reich's work, whose archives were mysteriously discovered Jan Jelinek, compiled by Andrew Pekler.

A renewed approach to the history of sculpture and post-minimalism, based on the Royden Rabinowitch collection at MAMCO.

A new publishing project documenting the duo's artistic trajectory with a particular emphasis on their discursive production.

The first issue of the annual journal dedicated to science-art dialogue.

Dedicated to the activities of the Association for the Palliative Turn (APT), The Palliative Turn Number 1 proposes a fundamental shift in our attitude towards art and culture, informed by the practices of palliative medicine and care.

This publication assembles three phases of Termite Economies, a major series of artworks produced between 2018 and 2020 by the Australian artist Nicholas Mangan.

Microbial oceanography as a means to better understand the conditions of life (and survival) in the Anthropocene era.

Attempting to explore the transdisciplinary aspects of artistic practice, this book revisits a tipping point in art history: the invention of preconceptual and minimal art forms by George Brecht, a chemical engineer and artist.

The unexplored interactions between hypnosis, music and medicine in the 19th century, between the world of science and the world of art.

A series of visual documents and theoretical inquires around the work rs548049170_1_69869_TT, a translation of artist Emilio Vavarella's genetic code into a fabric, using the 19th century Jacquard loom.

A new interpretation of the explosive frog breeding phenomenon.

Art & microbiology: an essay on the critical, ethical and historical dimensions that result from the entry of microorganisms into the creative process, between art and science.

A dive into the world of fantastic realism through the works of some twenty contemporary artists.

Three three pinhole photographic series by the Venetian artist who explores the possible interactions between artistic and scientific languages.

First comprehensive monograph on Swiss artist Raphael Hefti (book printed by the artist himself with a specific technique making each copy a unique object).

Λ (Lambda) is an artist book by Micol Assaël which collects a series of 72 drawings made by the artist starting in 2011 as a reflection on light.

This new issue of the CNES' creation magazine collects the individual mythologies of forty-five authors, artists and art critics and draws a subjective and engaged relationship to the space environment, often experienced as beyond the reach of ordinary mortals.

A project by Paul-Armand Gette around the censorship of the Diane Chasseresse by the artist Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), whose sex considered too naturalistic was plugged up and filled with bronze rods and then hammered in 1829 when it entered the national collections.

Limited edition with an original artwork signed by the artist.

Since 2015, Yann Toma and Antoine Mandel have been bringing artists and mathematicians together at the Sorbonne. From these encounters between the two extremes of the conceptual were born the texts presented here which highlight new forms of creation, representation and action on the real.

Voce a vento (a vinyl LP + an artist's book) represents the result of a choral, visual and performative intervention realized by Claudia Losi in the Cilento countryside in Southern Italy in 2018.

Set alongside guest contributions, this catalogue offers, from the works of the two Dutch artists Nicky Assmann and Jan Robert Leegte, a fresh take on the fundamental concept of nature, in an age when science and technology are capable of replicating its phenomena.

A study of clouds through photographs, drawings, essays, and interviews.

The 19th issue of the CNES' creation magazine has committed its contributors, and now commits its readers, to embark on the Great Space Game.

A journey through the life and way of thinking of the French intellectual, medical biologist, philosopher and writer.

From 1970s to his death in 2000, scientist, artist and art collector Andreas Züst spent time in Greenland, photographing ice in its most diverse forms. This publication gathers a selection from this extensive collection, alongside contextual essays.

Michel Beretti, author, Jérôme Lamy, sociologist, and Élise Parré, artist, joined in a yearlong research project initiated by the Observatoire de l'Espace (the cultural laboratory of the French Space Agency) around the birth of the French space technology and its first spaceport in Hammaguir, Algeria.

A study on the role of research and knowledge production in today's contemporary art, and the growing relevance of art as conduit of knowledge.

A painter and an inventor, Eugène Frey (1863-1930) pioneered techniques of animated sets for the theatre at the same time period as the cinema was invented. While he is contextualized beside the creations of Loie Fuller, Georges Méliès or Lotte Reiniger, he is reinterpreted by the artist João Maria Gusmão. First publication devoted to the work of Eugène Frey, the luxurious catalogue of the exhibition at the New National Museum of Monaco presents texts by Stéphane Tralongo (University of Lausanne) and Laurent Mannoni (Cinémathèque française), as well as a work of fiction by João Maria Gusmão.

This monographic catalogue maps and decodes fifteen years of an artistic practice oriented towards DIY strategies and new technologies, investigating manifold spaces of reflections with a powerful political and theoretical radicality.

Four texts about the sky by Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673), English aristocrat, writer, philosopher and scientist whose salon was home to Descartes, Hobbes and Gassendi, precursor of feminism and author of one of the first works of science fiction.

An in-depth study of the diorama in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, a place for the creation and mediation of knowledge but also for the political construction of history, between art, anthropology and natural sciences.

By renewing the dialogue with anthropology, this book invites the history of science to be refounded on other, more humanistic bases.

A transdisciplinary discussion on the influence of computer-based technologies on the conditions of biological research.