Art & science

 
 
Warren Neidich - The Glossary of Cognitive Activism - (For a Not So Distant Future)
2019
English edition
Archive Books
A dictionary designed as a tool for analysis and resistance to the new realities of neurocapitalism. With 285 definitions stemming from the fields of political philosophy, media studies and neuroscience.
Espace(s) - Le tumulte
2019
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
The great tumult of space.
Theater, Garden, Bestiary - A Materialist History of Exhibitions
2019
English edition
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
A transdisciplinary history of exhibitions.
Nicolas Bernier - Sur le diapason - Autour d\'un cycle de création, entre son, science et lumière
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
The art of the tuning fork: the manifesto of the sound artist, performer and composer Nicolas Bernier.
Denis Vierge - Braids - Memories of the Narratocene
2019
English edition
Dis Voir - Illustrated Fairy Tales for Adults
The new fantastic novel published in the “tales for adults” series, in which contemporary writers explore through fiction the most recent research in sciences, reviving a tradition in scientific literature. A tradition which aims at making dream and meditate on the way the world is represented as it redefines itself today.
Denis Vierge - Tresses - Souvenirs du narratocène
2019
French edition
Dis Voir - Illustrated Fairy Tales for Adults
The new fantastic novel published in the “tales for adults” series, in which contemporary writers explore through fiction the most recent research in sciences, reviving a tradition in scientific literature. A tradition which aims at making dream and meditate on the way the world is represented as it redefines itself today.
William Reddy - La traversée des sentiments - Un cadre pour l\'histoire des émotions (1700-1850)
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A pioneering approach to the history of emotions.
Un autre monde///dans notre monde - Evocation contemporaine du réalisme fantastique
2019
French edition
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Catalogues
A dive into the world of fantastic realism through the works of some twenty contemporary artists.
João Maria Gusmão - Lua Cão
2019
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A panoptic cinema.
Samuel Etienne - Bricolage Radical - Génie et  banalité des fanzines do-it-yourself – Tome 2
2019
French edition
Strandflat
A panorama of the world of do-it-yourself fanzines.
Espace(s) - Nos géographies mentales
2019
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
currently out of stock
17th issue proposes a journey through the many “mental geographies” deployed by 43 contributors, artists, historians, scientifics, and writers.
Michelangelo Penso -
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Alberta Pane
A retrospective of the Italian artist's sculptural work over ten years, with three essays.
Aurélien Barrau - Sur son visage sombre - Échange sur les animaux
2018
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
Interview with influential astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau on animal welfare and related issues, including ecology and vegetarianism.
Cécile Fromont - L\'Art de la conversion - Culture visuelle chrétienne dans le royaume du Kongo
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An an extensive analysis of the advent of Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo and its and development across four centuries.
Andrea Galvani -
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This monograph offers a portrait of over a decade of work by international artist Andrea Galvani. It is a visual excavation into the rigorous research, scientific methodologies, and philosophical thought that underscore his practice. His most notable projects are examined through essays, field notes, calculations, cartographies… in support of a better understanding of a both demanding and fascinating work.
Charlotte Charbonnel - A07 A17
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
First monograph.
Jean-Yves Petiteau - Dockers à Nantes - L\'expérience des itinéraires
2018
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
The itinerary as an artistic, architectural, territorial and social experience.
Yaëlle Biro - Fabriquer le regard - Marchands, réseaux et objets d\'art africains à l\'aube du XXe siècle
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Based on a set of mostly unpublished archives, this book focuses on the role played by art dealers at the turn of the last century in the definition, promotion and circulation of African objects as artworks, in Europe and the United States.
Pauline Julier - Naturalis Historia
2018
French edition
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
40.00 24.00 €
Naturalis Historia is the result of an ambitious multimedia research on the history of nature. Taking an encyclopedic approach, artist Pauline Julier explores several nature stories appealing to the arts and sciences to create this vast narrative. The 504-page edition includes a rich iconography, original texts as well as interviews with Philippe Descola and Bruno Latour.
Katja Novitskova - Ringier 2017
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
A visual tour de force (artist's book).
Alex Hanimann - Trapped
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
This publication gathers a series of snapshots of domestic and exotic animals, mostly taken at night by automatically triggered “camera traps”.
Luciano Rigolini - AS 15-16
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Luciano Rigolini gives a minimalist reinterpretation of photo shoots produced by NASA astronauts during the lunar landing missions Apollo 15 and Apollo 16.
Mike Wilson - Rockabilly
2018
English edition
Diaphanes - Forward Fiction
After a meteorite crashes into his yard, the daily life of Rockabilly and of his neighbors takes a strange turn… Mike Wilson's third novel combines social criticism and science fiction, depicting the dark corners of American suburbs at night.
Espace art actuel - Space Art
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Space as a privileged place to think and question our place in the world.
Alain Séchas - Passe-temps
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
This book revisits the oeuvre of Alain Séchas as a whole, with a particular focus on the works produced over the past decade—most notably his paintings and drawings.
Stefan Banz - One Rock Upon Another - Marcel Duchamp, Jules Verne, Max Bill, Joseph Beuys, Fischli | Weiss, Ai Weiwei
2018
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
Six essays dealing with still rarely discussed aspects of the work of Joseph Beuys, Max Bill, Fischli | Weiss and Ai Weiwei, but also Jules Verne, in their relationship with the various artistic concepts of Marcel Duchamp.
Espace(s) - Anecdotes et faits divers
2018
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
16th issue confronts the question of the narrative and the “anecdote”, with an ensemble of textual and visual contributions by artists, historians, scientifics, and writers.
Will Sweeney - Vorpal Sword
2018
no text
Nieves
Will Sweeney's new graphic narrative is set in a retrofuturistic England ruled by a twisted elite who exploits a population inhabiting decadent urban centers. Monsters populate this strange world, and humanity's last chance lies in the power of the Vorpal Sword—a metaphysical blade of vital creative energy…
Hercule Florence - Le Nouveau Robinson
2018
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
Through a series of scientific contributions and archives, this publication recounts the extraordinary character that was Hercule Florence—an explorer, an inventor and an artist, considered one of the inventors of photography.
Robert Smithson - Mémoire et entropie
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A synthesis of the multiple dimensions of the protean oeuvre of a legendary artist, which we measure today to what extent they find an echo in contemporary environmental, cinematographic, aesthetic and social issues.
Lionel Ovesey - Color line - Oppression et inconscient
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
A landmark study on the psychological effects of oppression on Black Americans during the 1940s.
Sigismond de Vajay - Unreachable Empires
2018
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Conceived by Sigismond de Vajay, this artist's book combines 70 of his drawings with commissioned essays by Mexican novelist Mario Bellatín, French biologist and glaciology researcher Bruno Jourdain, and geography and biotechnology expert Elizabeth R. Johnson. Together, thanks to their intertwined dialogue around reality, fiction, science, knowledge, and the power of artistic approaches, they express a subjective vision of our changing times.
Heman Chong - Ifs, Ands, or Buts
2018
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The catalogue for Heman Chong's first solo museum exhibition in mainland China, at the Rockbund Art Museum, provides an insightful and critical look into the Singaporean artist's recent practice.
Éric Arlix - Terreur, Saison 1
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A thriller novel set in a dystopian Europe where a medicine against depression radically changes people's behavior…
Virgile Novarina - Télescope intérieur - Une œuvre spatiale d\'Eduardo Kac (DVD)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
In February 2016, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet produced aboard the ISS an artwork by Eduardo Kac, entitled Inner Telescope. This film documents the conception and the realization of the very first artistic performance in Space.
Susana Sulic - Vitesse Photon Target
2017
French edition
Supernova - Poetry and storytelling
Vitesse Photon Target is a long-running poem combining typographic and syntactic experiments with the theme of space research.
 Dexter Sinister - The Contemporary Condition - Notes on the Type, Time, Letters & Spirits
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
Three interconnected essays on typography.
David Signer - Économie de la sorcellerie
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
An ethnological study of witchcraft in West Africa, based on field research conducted in five countries between 1994 and 2000.
Valérie Pihet - Le chemin des possibles - La maladie de Huntington entre les mains de ses usagers
2017
French edition
Dingdingdong
A three-year survey with patients, families, caregivers and associations who fight off the Huntington's disease using the tools and lessons stemming from the arts and humanities.
Nanna Debois Buhl - Intervals and forms of stones of stars
2017
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A biological investigation of a Nordic man-made beach landscape through a series of cameraless photographic registrations of the site's flora, fauna, and particles.
Espace(s) - La légèreté
2017
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
This issue explores the vast regions of lightness with an ensemble of textual and visual contributions by artists, historians, scientifics, and writers.
Katja Novitskova - If Only You Could See What I\'ve Seen with Your Eyes
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Published for the Estonian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, Katja Novitskova's catalogue addresses emerging potentialities between visual culture, big-data-driven processes, and ecology.
Jérôme Conscience - Conscience
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
This monograph documents over a decade of works and exhibitions, and offers an intimate portrait of an artist who put the language at the center of his visual practice.
Andréas Marchal - Theory of MultiDream - A cosmic-dream investigation by H.P. Lovecraft
2017
English edition
Dis Voir - Illustrated Fairy Tales for Adults
A tale loosely inspired by both the contemporary astrophysicist Aurelien Barrau's work on multiverses and the turn-of-the-century author H.P. Lovecraft's mystical stories. The book entwines astrophysics and fantasy literature through fiction, deconstructing the frameworks of narration, logic, identity, space, and time. Illustrated by Andréa Marchal, after Barrau's works.
Paul-Armand Gette - Collection Maison Bernard, Fonds de dotation
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Analogues - Monographs
22.00 11.00 €
The first title in a series of publications dedicated to artists' residencies at Maison Bernard, a masterpiece of organic architecture carried out in the 1970s by Antti Lovag in association with Pierre Bernard. The book documents a site-specific project by Paul-Armand Gette, the first artist ever to exhibit at Maison Bernard.
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