The reservoir: Communion
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"Communion" is the second issue of Woodbine’s printed journal "The Reservoir," featuring new texts by Kazembe Balagun, Elizabeth Povinelli, Geert Lovink, Kristin Ross, Experimental Jetset, and Marcello Tarì, as well as a previously unpublished interview with Félix Guattari. This issue features archival texts by and reflections on Black Mountain College and the Gate Hill(...)
The reservoir: Communion
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"Communion" is the second issue of Woodbine’s printed journal "The Reservoir," featuring new texts by Kazembe Balagun, Elizabeth Povinelli, Geert Lovink, Kristin Ross, Experimental Jetset, and Marcello Tarì, as well as a previously unpublished interview with Félix Guattari. This issue features archival texts by and reflections on Black Mountain College and the Gate Hill artists cooperative, Murray Bookchin, the Catholic Worker, Co-op City, Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall and Ganienkeh, George Jackson and The Black Panther Party, Llano del Rio, Provo, M.C. Richards, the Shakers, the ZAD, and more. With original art, comics, essays, fiction, illustrations, interviews, letters, photography, poetry, transcripts, and translations from more than 30 contributors, and design by Kevin McCaughey.
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Video is everywhere. Since its debut as a consumer medium in the 1960s, video has shaped our opinions, our politics and our societies. On our phones and computer screens, walls and streets, it defines new spaces and experiences—spreading memes, lies, fervor, fact and fiction. In other words, video has transformed the world. Featuring works from the collection of the(...)
Signals: How video transformed the world
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Video is everywhere. Since its debut as a consumer medium in the 1960s, video has shaped our opinions, our politics and our societies. On our phones and computer screens, walls and streets, it defines new spaces and experiences—spreading memes, lies, fervor, fact and fiction. In other words, video has transformed the world. Featuring works from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, this illuminating exhibition catalog—MoMA’s first major publication on video art in nearly 30 years—explores the ways in which artists have both championed and questioned video’s promise, some hoping to create new networks of communication, democratic engagement and public participation, others protesting commercial and state control over information, vision and truth itself.
Art Theory
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When the human gaze falls on a body, it constructs and deconstructs it. The setting for this is our daily life in all its different shapes and forms. The human body functions here as a semiotic system, an archive, a fiction, a projection screen, or an alphabet. The gaze that encounters it may manifest as an antagonist—be it incisive or flawed—yet it can itself disappear(...)
DNA #3: Counter readings of the body
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When the human gaze falls on a body, it constructs and deconstructs it. The setting for this is our daily life in all its different shapes and forms. The human body functions here as a semiotic system, an archive, a fiction, a projection screen, or an alphabet. The gaze that encounters it may manifest as an antagonist—be it incisive or flawed—yet it can itself disappear from view. The texts and images brought together in this volume seek to remove the body from the firing line and away from these judging and derogatory glances. They act as mirrors redirecting looks, points of view, and ideas to enable us to understand implicit and explicit processes of reading.
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L'histoire de ma maison
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1812 : John Soane, architecte accompli de la Banque d’Angleterre, est à l’apogée de sa gloire, et s’attache à aménager sa fascinante maison-musée. Un manuscrit, resté longtemps inédit, révèle pourtant l’envers de ce succès. Un véritable roman d’architecture et de mort : dans un futur indéterminé, la maison n’offre déjà plus que ses ruines oubliées et tragiques. Remis en(...)
L'histoire de ma maison
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1812 : John Soane, architecte accompli de la Banque d’Angleterre, est à l’apogée de sa gloire, et s’attache à aménager sa fascinante maison-musée. Un manuscrit, resté longtemps inédit, révèle pourtant l’envers de ce succès. Un véritable roman d’architecture et de mort : dans un futur indéterminé, la maison n’offre déjà plus que ses ruines oubliées et tragiques. Remis en contexte et commenté par Emmanuel Rubio, Histoire de ma maison se révèle une fiction architecturale de premier ordre, à même d’éclairer la crise qui touche son auteur comme la période qu’il incarne. Un document rare, dont les enjeux – fictionnalisation de l’architecture, traversée de la catastrophe, esthétique de l’assemblage – résonnent encore dans l’architecture de notre temps.
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QuébeQueer : Le queer dans les productions littéraires, artistiques et mediatiques québécoises
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En plus d’offrir un portrait des productions culturelles queer au Québec tant francophones qu’anglophones, dont certaines autochtones, cet ouvrage s’attarde à révéler le caractère queer de celles qui ne le sont pas de facto. Il se présente comme un manuel de référence sur le sujet, avec des essais critiques – qui portent autant sur la littérature et le monde du spectacle(...)
QuébeQueer : Le queer dans les productions littéraires, artistiques et mediatiques québécoises
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En plus d’offrir un portrait des productions culturelles queer au Québec tant francophones qu’anglophones, dont certaines autochtones, cet ouvrage s’attarde à révéler le caractère queer de celles qui ne le sont pas de facto. Il se présente comme un manuel de référence sur le sujet, avec des essais critiques – qui portent autant sur la littérature et le monde du spectacle que sur les arts médiatiques ou la presse gay – et des textes expérimentaux – fictions, dessins, récits autobiographiques. Plus de 27 œuvres de fiction publiées entre 1965 et 2017 y sont analysées sous différents aspects, avec des méthodologies diverses, mais toujours sous l’éclairage queer (un terme à la nature instable, paradoxale, que calque la forme éclatée de l’ouvrage).
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The Atlas of anomalous AI
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This volume is a compelling and surprising map of our complex relationship to intelligence, from ancient to emerging systems of knowledge. A wildly associative constellation of ideas, stories, artworks and historical materials, the Atlas draws on art historian Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas — an image map of the “afterlife of antiquity” — to approach the defining concepts(...)
The Atlas of anomalous AI
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This volume is a compelling and surprising map of our complex relationship to intelligence, from ancient to emerging systems of knowledge. A wildly associative constellation of ideas, stories, artworks and historical materials, the Atlas draws on art historian Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas — an image map of the “afterlife of antiquity” — to approach the defining concepts of AI from an imaginative, artistic and revitalising perspective. The Atlas presents a hyperdimensional view of the world, through a broad range of perspectives that explore the question of what AI has been and what it is becoming. Key texts on modelling, prediction and automation are brought together with stories of science fiction, dreams and human knowledge, set among visionary and surreal images.
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Volume 20, Story telling
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This past year numerous dramas have competed for our attention: sub-prime mortgages, banking meltdown, bailout, stimulus, pandemic, bankruptcy. The all-consuming effort to follow these events seldom leaves a moment to contemplate the explanations themselves. What is the stated dilemma, context or motive for any one of these problems? And most importantly, how does a(...)
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August 2009, Amsterdam
Volume 20, Story telling
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This past year numerous dramas have competed for our attention: sub-prime mortgages, banking meltdown, bailout, stimulus, pandemic, bankruptcy. The all-consuming effort to follow these events seldom leaves a moment to contemplate the explanations themselves. What is the stated dilemma, context or motive for any one of these problems? And most importantly, how does a problem's formulation determine its proposed solution? Volume 20 is dedicated to the art of storytelling. It presents the storylines of current events and architecture to show that while the truth is important, so is the ability of fiction to elevate fact. perhaps the best way to understand our era is through narratives that distort, pervert and animate reality?
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The progress of love
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The title of this volume, The Progress of Love, refers to a group of 18th-century paintings by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, who represented love as a contemporary phenomenon rather than in the guise of allegory or fiction. Today’s artists go further. Exploring the forces that shape our conceptions of love, The Progress of Love brings together the work of 30 artists from Africa,(...)
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The progress of love
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The title of this volume, The Progress of Love, refers to a group of 18th-century paintings by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, who represented love as a contemporary phenomenon rather than in the guise of allegory or fiction. Today’s artists go further. Exploring the forces that shape our conceptions of love, The Progress of Love brings together the work of 30 artists from Africa, Europe, the African diaspora, and the New World. Beautiful color images show works in a range of media by a dazzling array of contemporary artists, including Kelechi Amadi-Obi, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Sophie Calle, Mary Ellen Carroll, Kendell Geers, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Romuald Hazoumé, Zanele Muholi, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, and Yinka Shonibare.
Neuromancer
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Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, a mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case is(...)
Neuromancer
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Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, a mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case is ready for the adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction. "Neuromancer" was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future—a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.
Current Exhibitions
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A new series from designer Sophie Krier looking at processes emerging on the frontiers of design. Every 'field essay' is a renewed attempt to formulate a visual grammar for design research. In this issue, the work of American furniture designer Jonathan Muecke is juxtaposed with the architectural photography of Dutchman Bas Princen. The Cranbrook educated Muecke(...)
Onomatopee 55.1 : Cabinet project Firld essays / Issue 1
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A new series from designer Sophie Krier looking at processes emerging on the frontiers of design. Every 'field essay' is a renewed attempt to formulate a visual grammar for design research. In this issue, the work of American furniture designer Jonathan Muecke is juxtaposed with the architectural photography of Dutchman Bas Princen. The Cranbrook educated Muecke creates boldly imaginative artifacts such as his series of carbon fiber chairs that probe the realms of our perception and make us more aware of its mechanisms. Princen, on the other hand, frames built and un-built landscapes where typologies blur between office park and science fiction monolith, for example to dramatic effect. Both create visual propositions that make room
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