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Eduardo Kac - Téléprésence & bio art - Humains, lapins et robots en réseaux
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
various
forthcoming
The first book to document the evolution of bio art and the aesthetic development of Eduardo Kac, the creator of the "artist's gene" as well as the controversial glow-in-the-dark, genetically engineered rabbit Alba.
Maud Haon Maatouk - De la botanique à une poétique du vivant - Science et imaginaire dans l\'œuvre de Gustave Moreau
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
A comprehensive study of the impact of the life sciences—primarily botany—and their expansion in the 19th century on the thought and work of Gustave Moreau.
For Magical Worlds - Design and the Ontological Turn
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
forthcoming
Magical practices (and design) as tools for experiencing the world in a different way.
Alexandra Midal - Hocus Pocus - Design of the Invisible
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
forthcoming
An exploration of how design has evolved in interaction with popular and material culture, drawing inspiration from technology as well as magic and the occult.
Pour des mondes magiques - Vers un nouvel engagement du design
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
forthcoming
Magical practices (and design) as tools for experiencing the world in a different way.
Alexandra Midal - Hocus Pocus - Le design de l’invisible
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
forthcoming
An exploration of how design has evolved in interaction with popular and material culture, drawing inspiration from technology as well as magic and the occult.
Rikke Luther - Mud … and the Earth System
2026
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
Mud … and the Earth System explores Rikke Luther's groundbreaking research in Earth system sciences and highlights the challenges of communicating these findings to the public.
Laurie Dall\'Ava - Le Temps vibré
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
Le Temps vibré documents Laurie Dall'Ava's long-term research into an organic pigment based on chlorophyll and cyanobacteria, tracing the artist's field of investigation over a period of fifteen years.
Sense Unknown - Art & Science
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain
An exploration of the relationship between art and science through a cross-disciplinary journey featuring some 100 works of art and scientific artifacts by approximately 30 artists, from the Renaissance to the present day.
M=O? - Mathematics Equals Ontology?
2026
English edition
Suture Press
What is the relationship between mathematics and philosophy? How does the project of "mathematical ontology" redefine the link between multiplicities and being? M=O? brings together leading scholars exploring and questioning Alain Badiou's thesis that "mathematics is ontology" and its evolution.
Lynn Hershman Leeson - A History of Her Own
2026
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first reader of essays devoted to the work of the renowned artist and media pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson.
Fiction-Science
2026
French edition
Fiction-Science
Strandflat
The second issue of the journal dedicated to science-art dialogue focuses on the Belle Morue research-creation project.
Inclassables - Visual, sound & digital arts
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A collective exploration of the murky area where practices from sound art, visual arts, performance, digital technologies, science, but also poetry and philosophy intersect in a constantly evolving digital environment, drawing on the cross-disciplinary dynamics and experiments initiated by the international festival ]interstice[ in Caen.
Christiane Geoffroy - Fragments 2023/2024
2026
French edition
various
currently out of stock
Christiane Geoffroy’s "fragments" work through small touches, through trial and error. Their great temporal flexibility allows them to wander from the origins of the universe and life to generations not yet born. At times, they function as short performative poems.
Christiane Geoffroy - La Terre tremble
2026
French edition
various
currently out of stock
Five stories set in a world in upheaval, taking us to the far reaches of Russia, Ukraine, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo... and the Botanical Garden of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Non-human beings are the central characters in these stories.
 Panamarenko - Panamarenko Fundamentals
2026
English edition
MER. Books
An exciting exploration of the imaginary world of Belgian artist Panamarenko, who became internationally renown for his groundbreaking creations connecting art with science and technique.
Les Feuilles – Revue suspensive
2026
French edition
Les Feuilles
The "suspensive" artist Chloé Mogli invites authors, illustrators and researchers to write with her what the gesture of standing above the void generates as perceptions and thoughts, and invites us to suspend our perceptions of reality.
Luca Spano - The Shape of the Air / La forma dell\'aria
2026
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
An original project by the Italian artist that brings art and science into dialogue by exploring "non-optical images" (the visual processes through which the human brain forms mental images using all the senses except direct sight).
Johan De Wilde - Hands of Time - Les très riches heures de Jean le Sauvage
2026
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
MER. Books
New monograph.
Albert Piette - Against Relationalism and the Tyranny of Context - Anthropological Ideas and the Volume of Being
2026
English edition
Naima
A non-relationalist anthropological approach to singularity.
Liam Gillick - A Variability Quantifier
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Documents artist Liam Gillick's process in building a functioning weather station for Fogo Island, Newfoundland.
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger - In Touch - Encounters between Art and Research
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
Considers the work of seven artists through the framework of art as research.
Albert Piette - La forme élémentaire de l\'être humain - Concepts et dessins pour inventer une science
2025
French edition
Naima
A contemporary artist and an anthropologist engage in dialogue with the history of anthropology, philosophy, and art in an attempt to approach the singularity of the human being.
Carolina Caycedo - We Place Life at the Center / Situamos la vida en el centro
2025
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
X Artists' Books
A publication that directs dialogue and points of exchange among art, science, and environmental justice in the Americas.
 Formafantasma - Down Under - The Curious Fall of a Child Who Knew Nothing and Became Everything
2025
English edition
Nero
An ecological fable by the design duo Formafantasma, beautifully illustrated by Clément Vuillier and accompanied by a rich selection of scientific texts exploring the intricate relationship between humans, the environment, and other organisms.
Vilém Flusser - Arts, sciences, technologies - Défis à la recherche-création
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Research-creation reconsidered from its historical upstream (before, when we spoke of Arts-Sciences), but also from its possible downstream (after, from the point of view of other conceptions and other practices yet to be invented).
Yves Sarfati - De l\'inconscient à l\'abstraction - Le cas Hartung
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
Fondation Hartung Bergman
What meaning can be given to abstract art forms when the figurative is evacuated in favor of pure gesture and color? This book investigates the case of Hans Hartung, delving into the depths of his psyche—at the frontier between aesthetics, neuroscience, psychoanalysis and medicine.
Sensation Quantique - Atomes et souvenirs
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Naima
A dialogue between art and quantum physics.
Frank Malina - Light Art and Scientific Abstraction
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first comprehensive book on the art of Frank Malina (1912-1981), the American rocket scientist turned Paris-based artist, one of the fathers of light art.
Élise Alloin - D\'ici Fessenheim
2025
French edition
Kunsthalle Mulhouse
D'ici Fessenheim replicates and extends Élise Alloin's artistic research in the Fessenheim area, following the shutdown in 2020 of France's oldest nuclear power plant and the first in a series of dismantling operations to come.
Marion Laval-Jeantet - Microbiota - Créer et soigner
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Marion Laval-Jeantet's research into therapeutic care continues her work with Benoît Mangin under the name of Object-Oriented Art on microbiota, at the crossroads of scientific art, biology, anthropology, psychology and ethology.
Tomás Saraceno - Life(s) of webs
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
currently out of stock
A collection of essays discussing the role of spider/webs in different cultures from an inter-species perspective.
Vilém Flusser - Vampyroteuthis infernalis
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
The new and definitive edition of Vilém Flusser's fabulous treatise, based on the original French typescripts.
Spencer Gerhardt - Ticking Stripe
2024
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
currently out of stock
A new collection of writings by the composer and mathematician Spencer Gerhardt, considering among other topics the rich points of contact between minimalist musical aesthetics and intuitionistic mathematics.
Conrad Shawcross - Cascading Principles - Expansions Within Geometry, Philosophy, and Interference
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A book based on Conrad Shawcross's largest UK exhibition to date and four interdisciplinary conferences, between sculpture, mathematics, quantum physics and philosophy.
France Jobin - Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2) (CD)
2024
Room40
An album recorded in different parts of the world, in which the Canadian composer and sound artist explores how quantum mechanics profoundly influences the perception of sound.
Les réserves des musées - Écologies des collections
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Using an interdisciplinary approach inspired by science and technology studies, and combining museological and sociological perspectives, this groundbreaking study of museum storerooms sheds new light on the world of art and cultural heritage conservation.
Fabrice Hyber - La fabrique du climat
2024
French edition
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
Catalogue.
Nicholas Mangan - A World Undone
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
New monograph.
 Andrea Caretto & Raffaella Spagna - Bright Ecologies - Experiences, Forms, Materials
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Viaindustriae
(last copies available!)
The first overview of the artistic research of Andrea Caretto and Raffaella Spagna, an Italian artistic duo focused on site specific art project with a sensible attitude to the landscape.
Iglika Christova - Penser et créer avec le microcosme - Du dessin d\'observation au « dessin vivant »
2024
French edition
various
An interdisciplinary investigation by French-Bulgarian visual artist Iglika Christova, an explorer of the microcosm, into the relationship between the mechanisms of the living world and drawing.
João Maria Gusmão - Massa Confusa
2024
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Massa Confusa is a combinatorial codex cataloguing João Maria Gusmão's recent material transformations in the studio, featuring an accompanying text by the artist and faithful reproductions.
Michel Paysant - Entretiens
2024
French edition
Naima
Artist and curator discuss the role and value of art in the 21st century, and the potential for artistic creation to contribute to the development of new knowledge.
 Dexter Sinister - yksihW kcalB
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The 15-year history of the production of a "German scotch" Black Whisky, made by Dexter Sinister together with Stahlemühle, a distillery set up by former publisher, Christoph Keller
Imaginaires technologiques
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Some insights into the imaginaries that inhabit techno-scientific realities, transforming our relationship with the world, closing or opening up the future.
Paul-Armand Gette - L\'odyssée du 0 m.
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
This catalogue offers a journey—an odyssey—through the work of Paul-Armand Gette, with the "0m." as a common thread, the manifesto gesture that has punctuated the artist's universe since 1974.
Keep it Flat - A little history on flat earth
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated.
Objective: Earth - Designing our Planet
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.
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