Art & game

Postmodernism and gift culture: everyday objects in contemporary art since the 1960s.

First published in 1964, this wordless and colorful picture book is a tale of friendship between a pink bird and an orange fish. The illustrations by Swiss artist Peter Wezel are rendered with a deliberate childlike naiveté which will delight children and adults alike.

A collection of 37 postcards based on family pictures gathered by the participants of a collective workshop held by the artist and writer Valérie Mréjen. The postcards tell two fictitious family stories, which the reader can freely rearrange to create his own narrative.

The young Albert Einstein has a very important job: he must deliver electricity to the big Oktoberfest celebration in Munich. As he hurries from one merry-go-round to another, nothing seems to be going as planned. With his sister, Maja, Heinrich the dog, and Niels Bohr, a qualified dwarf-thrower, can he win a battle against the laws of the universe? The key just may lie in the question of whether a dumpling can fly faster than light (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

Diogenes as a dog (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

Quoting excerpts from Keller Easterling's 2014 essay Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space, this coloring book tells the story of two characters, a fox (the artist) and a cat, and their special relationship, made of exotic travels, dreams and nightmares, struggles and desires.

Following the artists' previous series of life-size puppets in Die Schmutzigen Puppen von Pommern, this new publication presents a collection of one hundred sixty-four small puppets, each having a unique look.

This catalogue brings together a selection of early paintings by the american artist, accompanied by an essay illustrated with archival images.

The Futures of Screen: an aesthetic and technical analysis.

A set of charades invented by Alain Séchas and illustrated with original drawings.

A set of charades invented by Alain Séchas and illustrated with original drawings, with an original artwork signed by the artist.

Retrospective monograph on all Beckman's video works since the 1970s.

Documenting Ian Cheng's latest “live simulations”—virtual living ecosystems in autonomous evolution—this monograph engages in a dialogue between art, new technologies and neurosciences.

1914. Europe is at war. The experts on deciphering code and secret writing are wild with excitement: What in the world can be the meaning of those incomprehensible notes scribbled by secret agent Ludwig Wittgenstein? The young scholar himself is unable to help them—he is hunting a wild beast, a figure of dubious existence… (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? What's for dinner? More than two hundred years ago, on a day that takes quite a peculiar course, Professor Kant is working hard to give an answer to all these questions. Not only the morning papers, but also a slightly perfumed letter get in his way however. As a result, he even forgets to go out on his regular digestive walk—and everything goes off the rails… (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

On a long, cold winter night, more than three hundred years ago, Mister Descartes is suddenly beset by profound doubts: Can I trust my senses, or am I fooled by illusions? Is there an Evil Genius behind all things? What if the outside world is only a dream? Is my own existence nothing but the product of my imagination? (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

Hannah Arendt is not at all keen to build an edifice of ideas or to develop abstract concepts. Rather, she gets on to the stage herself! To enter the scene of her little theater means to take matters into her own hands, take responsibility, to act. In short: Thinking is acting! Whereas the bureaucrats can conceive of only one thing: to build a world out of paper (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

Postcards from Home documents the encounters between Roc Herms and several different avatars during his years of participation in a virtual world created for Playstation 3.

Bruce McLean plays the Drawing Room Confessions.

These three thin volumes feature drawings by legendary illustrator Tomi Ungerer selected from his sixties sketchbooks. In the likes of fabulists, Ungerer portrays the animal kingdom (elephants, whales, kangaroos and a handful of camels) to satirize with humour the manners of his contemporaries.

Alexandre da Cunha plays the Drawing Room Confessions.

Mottled sausages, icy landscapes with worms that seem to have died trying to make it over hurdles, portals to impossible lands: welcome to the accidental world of ceramist and drawer Anne Brugni.

This catalogue interrogates the notion of play in contemporary art, bringing together artists who use formats and imagery from popular culture usually addressed to children or teenagers.

An analysis of the implications, challenges and specificities of the artist's magazines, as an artistic practice.

The ghost of Karl Marx makes a solemn vow to give the story of the class conflict a happy ending by fighting the Market, that infernal magician (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

For those who look for truth: On the origins of Western philosophy (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

Closer to a teen magazine than a classic publication, this catalogue / artist's book by one of the most influential artists of the new media generation features a series of essays by international curators and artists, and exhibition views, alongside elements typical of publications targeting a young audience, such as posters and stickers.

A “monologue” by the Cambodian photographer who offers an intimate reflection on the traumas of the recent history of his country.

A large selection of drawings from Brauntuch's early carreer, based upon iconographic resources from the Third Reich.

The Coloring Book by Dr. Lakra is the first BOM DIA Kinder book, a new series of children books made by artists.

An experimental novel written by two powerful voices of French experimental poetry. With illustrations by Charles Pennequin.

Ericka Beckman's Super-8 Piaget trilogy: We Imitate; We Break Up (1978); The Broken Rule (1979); and Out of Hand (1980).

Essay and interviews.

The second publication in the On the Table series, that explore the encounter between food and art, is dedicated to the art of the fold.

A playful enquiry into “playfulness” as a value in critical cultural practice.

The relations between youth culture, digital practices, and media industries with the example of electro dances and Tecktonik phenomenon.

A study of the musical (and political) aspects of one of the most subversive artistic movements of the 60's.

Artist's book.

Essay.

Digital technologies and interactivity in the artistic field, in an historic and experimental perspective (new edition).