Art & science

Collector's edition box set including the soundtrack realised by the great Russian composer Edward Artemiev for the Andrey Tarkovsky's masterpiece film Solaris (1972). The box comes with the soundtrack in the vinyl and CD formats, an exclusive luxurious photo book with unreleased images of the movie set and essays about music and cinema of the duo Artemiev/Tarkovsky, and the Blu-ray version of the film, in original language with English subtitles.

This catalogue is conceived as a continuation and circulation of Saraceno's eponymous sound project: The artist uses spider webs as musical instruments embodying the incredible structural properties of the spider's silk, but also the spider's sophisticated mode of communication through vibrations. Saraceno recorded jam sessions between arachnids and musicians, included in this publication, as well as documentation, essays, and a manifesto.

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.

This publication documents Eliasson's Green light project —an artistic workshop for refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and NGOs, whose goal is to fabricate lamps for fundraising education. It provides testimonies, stories, and memories by Green light participants, founders, and organizers, as well as essays by art historians and theorists.

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.

Atkinson's most ambitious musical work to date, Hand In Hand combines 80's sci-fi anxious aethetics with today's transparency of digital sounds. Placing the voice at the epicenter of the recording, the French artist and musician convokes fiction, composition and abstraction in the manner of Joan La Barbara, Robert Ashley, or Delia Derbyshire.

Atkinson's most ambitious musical work to date, Hand In Hand combines 80's sci-fi anxious aethetics with today's transparency of digital sounds. Placing the voice at the epicenter of the recording, the French artist and musician convokes fiction, composition and abstraction in the manner of Joan La Barbara, Robert Ashley, or Delia Derbyshire.

Belgian artist Carsten Höller has risen to the fore of the international scene with a practice that revolves around the search for new ways of inhabiting our world. This catalogue features 20 large-scale works––installations, videos, and photographs that play with optics and space.

In his “Book” George Brecht describes the specific nature of each single page, in a gesture that renders the printed matter a tautological object.

Daniel Wilson's Radionics Radio project draws upon the fringe-science of “radionics”, with its invisible forces and psychic resonances, to spawn electroacoustic and electronic compositions employing very alternative tuning systems.

The artist's own archive of phantasmagoria: a unique collection of objects and ephemera relating to magic, the paranormal, occultism, pseudoscience, technology as well as their cultural and media portrayals (new edition).

The reference monograph on the work of artist Agnes Denes, this profusely illustrated book aslo gathers an extensive selection of the artist's texts and manifestos.

Transcript of a lecture given at the Musée de la Civilisation, Québec, in 1993, in which the scientist Ilya Prigogine suggests an understanding of time that isn't just a measuring variable but a real dimension whose most fertile property would be its irreversibility.

This project stages the collision between the book Walden or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1854) and the mission of Mercury Seven (1958) sending men to space. It is a polymorphic work, evoking the questions of autonomy, isolation, solitude, but also contemplation and enlarged perspectives through music and live performance with modular synthesizers.

An interactive book where you are the hero, written by the game designer FibreTigre, edited by Fanette Mellier (a collector's item for graphic art lovers as well as for readers-players).

This second edition of Ixiptla takes the form of a newspaper to broadcast the multiplicity of views and experiences connected to the complex history of the objects shown in the exhibition “Parergon” at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.

A multidisciplinary examination of the Gwion Gwion cave paintings' “living pigments” which are generating new articulations between “art” and “life.”

First French translation of the two famous essays in which Jack Burnham draws the profile of an “aesthetic systems.”

A pioneering study in which professor of media theory Dieter Mersch paves the way for a methodology of aesthetics that would move beyond the “linguistic turn” to create a new scientific discourse that would create a better conceptual understanding of art-based research.

In the Holocene is based on a 2012 group exhibition of the same name at the MIT List Visual Arts Center that explored art as a speculative science, investigating principles more commonly associated with scientific or mathematical thought.

Catalogue / artist's book.

Alberto García del Castillo's first novel is a comedy-science-fiction novelette about “faggotry” and the art world; depicting a retour-au-passé in contemporary painting and waving to some of the most beautiful homosexuals on Earth.

Theoretical reflections and insights into alternative artistic working models.

First extensive publication devoted to the French artists duo.

First translation into French of the short story by Edward Page Mitchell—a major figure in the early development of the science fiction genre—, written and published unattributed in the NY Sun in 1879.

Ulf Linde summarizes his decades of investigation into the geometry of Duchamp's works.

A study in which Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman discusses the way that forensic investigation and identification of Joseph Mengele's remains marks a transition, giving way to an "era of forensics", in which things—such as bones—act as the witnesses of past events.

This publication offers contemporary and historical overviews of international digital creation.

Five essays.

The story of objectivity, by two of the greatest historians of science today.

A collection of mostly unpublished essays, notes and letters which shed a new light on Warburg's last studies.

Reference monograph.

150 black-and-white photographs from the New York studio of Richard Nonas taken by the artist.

A visual narrative based on a series of randomly selected photographs from National Geographic issues: a “dream generator” taking visual motifs from a version of the real world and pushing them into the realm of the subconscious.

An exploration of contemporary publishing in its broadest, most exploded sense (pieces of writings written since the conception of Dexter Sinister's New York basement workshop and bookstore in the summer of 2006 / reproductions of a series of lithographic proof prints).

The sound of a 4.3 meters high wind chime recorded in the dome of Secession in Vienna.

A documentary conceived by the artist from the starting point of a former exhibition whose lightning system is made to flicker at a frequency of 7.8 hz. A compilation of dark-pop music from the eighties and the nineties emphazises the artist's capture of the flashing apparatus.

Monograph on the berliner artist / musician (Noto / Alva Noto / Raster Noton).

Artist's book. Inverted photographs of outer space made by the Hubble space telescope.

Drawings.

First monograph on the Swiss artist.

Numbered box set (1-100), with an original drawing signed by the artist and an unpublished DVD.

The first critical edition treating a fundamental text by one of the principle actors of Fluxus.

An anthology re-mapping the relations between the modernist utopia of neutrality and that of the psychedelic moment.

A long interview between the philosopher René Denizot and the artist Robert Barry.

Artist's book.

The legendary reference monograph, with the musical piece Spatiodynamisme by Pierre Henry on a 45RPM vinyl record (available in English edition).