CDA (Centre des Arts)

At the junction of art, science and technology, the CDA (Centre des Arts) promotes a diverse arts programme and spearheads many international projects. Since its creation, the CDA decided to set up a strong editorial axis with the publication of works allowing it to constitute a “memory” but also a collection about its exhibitions and various news of the sites used. In the course of singular works, the image and writing try to conjugate views and the expertise of artists and researchers on questions concerning the site and its programming shaped to the digital writings.

Enghien-les-Bains

www.cda95.fr

18 titles

$Prométhée, le jour d\'après$

Prométhée, le jour d'après

2022

French edition

A collection of contributions and works around the figure of Prometheus, asking the question of the scope of our individual and collective action in an interconnected world, where humans and non-humans cohabit.

$BioMedia - L\'ère des médias semblables à la vie$

BioMedia – L'ère des médias semblables à la vie

2022

French edition

A collection of contributions and works of about 15 international artists around the concept of "biomedia" developed and contextualized by Peter Weibel (ZKM), providing insights into mutual correlation between ecosystems and technology, and possible ways in which organic and inorganic life forms can coexist.

Félix Luque Sánchez
Machines & Fictions

2021

bilingual edition (English / French)

Machines & Fictions is a monograph on the work of Spanish artist Félix Luque Sánchez over the last twelve years, in collaboration with fellow artists Damien Gernay and Íñigo Bilbao. The book includes texts by leading scholars, curators, and art critics who discuss Félix Luque Sánchez's artistic projects.

Nicky Assman, Jan Robert Leegte
The Reconfigured Nature

2020

bilingual edition (English / French)

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.

Julio Le Parc
Du réel au virtuel – 1958-2019

2019

French edition

Julio Le Parc and the practices generated by digital creation.

$Flavien Théry - Mondes multiples - Flavien Théry et l\'holographie$

Flavien Théry
Mondes multiples – Flavien Théry et l'holographie

2019

French edition

An expanded reflection around the optical principles, the light and the visual perception that constitute the main axes of Flavien Théry's artistic research.

Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert, Laura Mannelli
As above so below

2018

bilingual edition (English / French)

Artists Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert, and Laura Mannelli, collaborate on a selection of works that explore the concept of worlds within worlds based on Dante Alighieri's opus. These visual narratives are complemented by texts from writers Benjamin Bianciotto, Agnès de Cayeux, Peter Gray, Didier Ottaviani and Catherine Vidal.

Ange Leccia
La communauté des images

2018

bilingual edition (English / French)

This catalogue celebrates the work of a major artist whose practice is situated in between contemporary art and cinema. It gathers a large selection of still films in high quality, a text by art historian Fabien Danesi, and an alphabet book drawing on Leccia's art through personal memories, anecdotes, and working issues.

Alain Fleischer
Passages clandestins

2017

French edition

This catalogue combines a short story written by artist Alain Fleischer with an iconographic ensemble featuring a selection of his works. The publication also includes eighteen epistolary texts addressed by choreographer Daniel Dobbels to Alain Fleischer.

Data Cities

2017

bilingual edition (English / French)

Collective publication bringing together artists, designers, and specialists to reflect on digital creativity within the city. Extending the investigations from the 11th meeting of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, it questions digital and data practices in urban territory.

Catherine Ikam

2016

bilingual edition (English / French)

This monograph is structured around an alphabet dedicated to the career of this pioneer of digital art. It also includes contributions from the likes of Nam June Paik and Paul Virilio, as well as an interview with Catherine Ikam and her associate Louis Fléri.

Grégory Chatonsky
Capture – Generative Netrock

2014

French edition

Capture is such a productive fictitious rock band, that nobody can consume everything. It produces new music, words, images, videos and derived products every hour. Capture reverses the consumerism ideology and the relation between desire and objects. This publication documents the project.

Bill Vorn
The Theater of Machines

2014

bilingual edition (English / French)

Artist Bill Vorn creates robotics as part of his research on artificial life and machine anthropomorphism. This catalogue, intended to be a robograhpy of the artist, attempts to understand, if perhaps not the phenomenon, then at least Bill Vorn's innovative approach to it (with contributions by Ian Fenelon and Jean-Paul Fourmentraux).