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Blockchain technology is changing the internet and the way we cohabitate, communicate, and behave, both online and offline. Advocates of the technology point to the development of a new internet (Web3) and conjure up notions of a gigantic future metaverse and the emergence of increasingly decentralised organisations and structures. Some see this as crypto-anarchistic(...)
Algorithmic Imaginary: Art on the blockchain and in the Metaverse
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Blockchain technology is changing the internet and the way we cohabitate, communicate, and behave, both online and offline. Advocates of the technology point to the development of a new internet (Web3) and conjure up notions of a gigantic future metaverse and the emergence of increasingly decentralised organisations and structures. Some see this as crypto-anarchistic wishful thinking, while others forecast a more democratic and just future for all. ‘Algorithmic Imaginary’ focuses on the works and ideas of artists and theorists who analyse, question, and reconceive both blockchain and associated applications such as DAOs, NFTs, and the metaverse.
Théorie de l’art
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Peut-on saisir les arts dans la pluralité de leurs manifestations, de leurs contextes sociaux et historiques, de leurs fonctions aussi ? Tel est le pari de Jean-Marie Schaeffer, qui propose une série de coups de projecteur sur des points particulièrement révélateurs de la vie des arts. Les oeuvres d'art sont loin d'être toutes « plaisantes », que ce soit dans leur contenu(...)
La vie des arts (mode d'emploi)
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Peut-on saisir les arts dans la pluralité de leurs manifestations, de leurs contextes sociaux et historiques, de leurs fonctions aussi ? Tel est le pari de Jean-Marie Schaeffer, qui propose une série de coups de projecteur sur des points particulièrement révélateurs de la vie des arts. Les oeuvres d'art sont loin d'être toutes « plaisantes », que ce soit dans leur contenu ou dans leur forme. Beaucoup (et parmi les plus grandes) sont cognitivement et émotivement dissonantes pour celles et ceux qui s'y exposent. Pourtant, dans tous les cas, en faire l'expérience a une action libératrice et vivifiante, en même temps qu'apaisante, sur notre sensibilité, notre intellect et nos émotions. Cet ouvrage ne présuppose aucune connaissance historique ou technique, simplement de la curiosité. Son but est de nous encourager à ne pas rester cantonnés à ce que nous connaissons déjà des arts et à nous aventurer dans des territoires nouveaux.
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Niki de Saint Phalle, Louise Bourgeois et Annette Messager : trois femmes, trois artistes, trois vies. Trois histoires passionnantes que tresse Nathalie Piégay, dans l'imbrication de l'existence quotidienne et de l'aventure artistique. Elle dit leur solitude et la part de folie qui les pousse à faire oeuvre, tout en cherchant à comprendre quels liens s'établissent entre(...)
3 nanas : Saint Phalle, Bourgeois, Messager
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Niki de Saint Phalle, Louise Bourgeois et Annette Messager : trois femmes, trois artistes, trois vies. Trois histoires passionnantes que tresse Nathalie Piégay, dans l'imbrication de l'existence quotidienne et de l'aventure artistique. Elle dit leur solitude et la part de folie qui les pousse à faire oeuvre, tout en cherchant à comprendre quels liens s'établissent entre elles. Peu à peu elle découvre tout ce qui les relie : la maternité, la cruauté, la révolte, la féminité, mais aussi l'invention de personnages, le recours au tissu et à la couture, et bien d'autres motifs. Le récit se tisse comme une toile d'araignée pour révéler l'être intime de femmes qui ont inventé des univers très singuliers et puissants, reconnaissables entre mille, et qui nous bouleversent. Raconter l'histoire de ces trois femmes, c'est s'approcher au plus près de la création.
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Over the last few decades the term "bootlegging"—a practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringers—has become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate branding, social media, and the creative industry as a whole. Today, bootlegging has become(...)
Unlicensed: Bootlegging as creative practice
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Over the last few decades the term "bootlegging"—a practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringers—has become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate branding, social media, and the creative industry as a whole. Today, bootlegging has become fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground record labels to DIY T-shirts, publishing ideologies, to acts of high fashion détournement. "Unlicensed" contains twenty-one interviews with a range of creative practitioners on the topic of bootlegging. The conversations in "Unlicensed" investigate bootlegging’s creative and critical potential, and explore new ways bootlegging can be deployed in order to thrive as an impactful cultural force.
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A teacher to Jacques Lacan, André Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojève defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, "The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky," endorses nonrepresentational art as uniquely manifesting beauty. Taking the paintings of his renowned uncle, Wassily Kandinsky, as his inspiration, Kojève suggests that in(...)
Kandinsky: Incarnating beauty
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A teacher to Jacques Lacan, André Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojève defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, "The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky," endorses nonrepresentational art as uniquely manifesting beauty. Taking the paintings of his renowned uncle, Wassily Kandinsky, as his inspiration, Kojève suggests that in creating (rather than replicating) beauty, the paintings are themselves complete universes as concrete as the natural world. Kojève’s text considers the utility and necessity of beauty in life, and ultimately poses the involuted question: What is beauty?
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Art and thought
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Art and Thought is a collection of newly commissioned essays that explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought.
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Art and Thought is a collection of newly commissioned essays that explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought.
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L'art textile
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Si une influence lie l'Ökologie Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) au Lebensraum de Friedrich Ratzel (1844-1904), une autre rattache ce dernier et son élève Franz Boas (1858-1942), futur fondateur de l'anthropologie culturelle américaine. Or, de traverses racistes en arborescences darwinistes, anthropologie, primitivisme et culture matérielle fascinent tout autant l'imagination(...)
L'art textile
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Si une influence lie l'Ökologie Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) au Lebensraum de Friedrich Ratzel (1844-1904), une autre rattache ce dernier et son élève Franz Boas (1858-1942), futur fondateur de l'anthropologie culturelle américaine. Or, de traverses racistes en arborescences darwinistes, anthropologie, primitivisme et culture matérielle fascinent tout autant l'imagination d'Aby Warburg (1866-1929) que celle de Gottfried Semper (1803-1879). À partir de 1860, le vieil architecte féru de renaissance italienne et de romantisme néoclassique étend ses recherches à l'étude des «styles», fussent-ils maori ou océanien. Un écheveau plaçant l'acte de parure au cœur du dispositif se tisse alors entre les «revêtements» que sont tatouage, tissage textile et huttes.
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In "The hidden factor," Steven Skaggs provides a beautifully illustrated and explained introduction to the mark—from those as physical as a scratch made by an animal, to those as accidental as a splatter of paint, to those as intentional as hand-drawn characters. Skaggs makes the case that, in the visual arts, gestures and mark-making operate on an equal level with image(...)
The hidden factor: Mark and gesture in visual design
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In "The hidden factor," Steven Skaggs provides a beautifully illustrated and explained introduction to the mark—from those as physical as a scratch made by an animal, to those as accidental as a splatter of paint, to those as intentional as hand-drawn characters. Skaggs makes the case that, in the visual arts, gestures and mark-making operate on an equal level with image and word. While we might think of content as that which is communicated through text and images, Skaggs shows, through visual examples, that the gestural mark is often hidden within both images and the typographic forms that convey words. By mapping different kinds of marks and showing how marks combine with image and word, "The hidden factor" explains that our desire for conceptual information suppresses our awareness of marking. This is especially the case with the tension between word and mark, where we desire legibility. As a result, one of the most conservative of arts—calligraphy—has the potential of being the most radical, since gesturally expressive handwriting is a natural threat to the legibility of a text.
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According to the writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter, "we humans cannot pre-exist our origin myths any more than a bee can pre-exist its beehive." Drawing inspiration from her seminal essays "The ceremony must be found" (1984) and “The Ceremony Found” (2015), "Ceremony" draws on Wynter’s thinking to suggest that "modernity," contrary to its own self-image as(...)
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Ceremony: Burial of an undead world
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According to the writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter, "we humans cannot pre-exist our origin myths any more than a bee can pre-exist its beehive." Drawing inspiration from her seminal essays "The ceremony must be found" (1984) and “The Ceremony Found” (2015), "Ceremony" draws on Wynter’s thinking to suggest that "modernity," contrary to its own self-image as rational and secular, is also determined by origin myths that emerged through the "mutations" of Christian cosmology after the dawn of capitalism in the Middle Ages. With over twenty-five unique contributions and commentaries on Wynter’s propositions from artists and writers, this publication will constitute a critical reference point for those seeking to construct and envisage a "counter-cosmogony" to the dispossession, slavery, and extractivism of modernity — which together endangers planetary life.
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Une étude historique approfondie du projet artistique et politique de l'Internationale situationniste (IS).
Le Monde en situation : La révolte sensible de l'Internationale situationniste
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Une étude historique approfondie du projet artistique et politique de l'Internationale situationniste (IS).
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