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Unknown lady in the radiation protection department, puddle, dancing couple in costume, damage to a waste drum, retiree send-off, lead shielding, burnt-out glovebox, scorpion with microchip—these are all captions to photographs of Germany’s first major nuclear research facility. In 1957, professional photographers began to make an on-site record of procedures at the(...)
10% : Das bildarchiv eines kernforschungszentrums betreffend
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Unknown lady in the radiation protection department, puddle, dancing couple in costume, damage to a waste drum, retiree send-off, lead shielding, burnt-out glovebox, scorpion with microchip—these are all captions to photographs of Germany’s first major nuclear research facility. In 1957, professional photographers began to make an on-site record of procedures at the Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe (KfK, Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center). In 2017, the decision was made to digitize ten percent of this image archive. Based on current concerns regarding the whereabouts of contaminated nuclear waste, the publication brings together over thirty perspectives from the fields of art, sociology, politics, and science as well as accounts of people who were directly involved with the facility. ''10%: Concerning the image archive of a nuclear research center'' sets out to delineate and visualize the afterlife of nuclear research. German edition.
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The research exhibition ''BioMedia: The age of media with life-like behavior'' at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe presents works that intersect the realms of art, science, and technology. The media systems on show, which range from digital, computer-generated, and computer-simulated systems to complex adaptive robots and interactive installations, simulate(...)
February 2023
BioMedia: The age of media with life-like behavior
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The research exhibition ''BioMedia: The age of media with life-like behavior'' at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe presents works that intersect the realms of art, science, and technology. The media systems on show, which range from digital, computer-generated, and computer-simulated systems to complex adaptive robots and interactive installations, simulate various different aspects of life beyond movement and raise fundamental questions about the interaction between human and non-human beings and what inorganic life might mean in the future. The term ''BioMedia'' or biomimetic media is used here to refer to media that exhibit life-like forms of behaviour. Over sixty artists have contributed works illustrating the exhibition themes. The book accompanying the show focuses on the artworks, which are described in detail in richly illustrated texts.
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Laterna Magika, which combines multi-genre theatre performances and films projected onto several screens on stage, emerged as as part of the programme promoting Czechoslovakian culture for Expo 58. Owing to its experimental nature, its combination of different art forms, the interconnection of art and new technologies, its significant role in the international promotion(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
March 2023
The Dictator of time: (De)contextualizing the phenomenon of Laterna Magika+
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Laterna Magika, which combines multi-genre theatre performances and films projected onto several screens on stage, emerged as as part of the programme promoting Czechoslovakian culture for Expo 58. Owing to its experimental nature, its combination of different art forms, the interconnection of art and new technologies, its significant role in the international promotion of Czechoslovakia, and its collaboration with numerous remarkable personalities, Laterna Magika was and still is a unique phenomenon within the context of Czech / Slovakian and international art. This monograph, which focuses on the period between 1958 and 1992, presents it as a phenomenon shaped by its many dichotomies: Laterna Magika is both fragmentary and complex, distractive and immersive, past and present, reproduced and live, traditional and progressive, ideological and critical of ideology, popular and elitist, discreet and voyeuristic.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Cet ouvrage est composé de cinq parties qui invitent à un déplacement de sens et d’idées autour des collections faisant écho aux formules dynamiques, interrogatives et inclusives que tendent à adopter les musées. Les recherches qui y sont publiées ont, pour la grande majorité, été menées dans le cadre des activités du Groupe de recherche et de réflexion CIÉCO. Les(...)
Réinventer la collection : L'art et le musée au temps de l'événementiel
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Cet ouvrage est composé de cinq parties qui invitent à un déplacement de sens et d’idées autour des collections faisant écho aux formules dynamiques, interrogatives et inclusives que tendent à adopter les musées. Les recherches qui y sont publiées ont, pour la grande majorité, été menées dans le cadre des activités du Groupe de recherche et de réflexion CIÉCO. Les différents chapitres interrogent l’impact de l’évènementiel sur les collections ou analysent des stratégies muséales qui cherchent à valoriser les collections par les ressorts évènementiels. Cet ouvrage, qui vient combler une importante lacune dans l’étude sur les collections, s’adresse à quiconque s’intéresse au patrimoine, aux musées, aux expositions, aux œuvres d’art que ce soit dans la perspective de l’histoire de l’art, de la muséologie, des arts visuels, de l’architecture, de l’ethnographie ou de la sociologie.
Museology
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Pour découvrir les coins saugrenus et pittoresques de New York, ce guide propose des expériences peu ordinaires comme observer les étoiles avec un télescope universitaire, retrouver une statue de Lénine, faire voler sa jupe au même endroit que Marilyn Monroe ou jouer au Scrabble avec les panneaux indicateurs du Queens.
New York, insolite et secrète
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Pour découvrir les coins saugrenus et pittoresques de New York, ce guide propose des expériences peu ordinaires comme observer les étoiles avec un télescope universitaire, retrouver une statue de Lénine, faire voler sa jupe au même endroit que Marilyn Monroe ou jouer au Scrabble avec les panneaux indicateurs du Queens.
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Texte zur kunst 129: Trans perspectives
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The latest issue is now available at the bookstore.
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This publication documents the origins and evolution of Coromandel House, the farmhouse in Mpumalanga, eastern South Africa, whose ground-breaking design champions a visionary integration of architecture and nature. From inspired concept to the building of a legacy, the book charts the story of architect Marco Zanuso’s remarkable creation for Sydney and Victoria Press – a(...)
Creating Coromandel: Marco Zanuso in South Africa
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This publication documents the origins and evolution of Coromandel House, the farmhouse in Mpumalanga, eastern South Africa, whose ground-breaking design champions a visionary integration of architecture and nature. From inspired concept to the building of a legacy, the book charts the story of architect Marco Zanuso’s remarkable creation for Sydney and Victoria Press – a creative partnership that spanned ten years and resulted in one of the most significant house designs of the 20th century.
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Architecture Monographs
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In this collection of idiosyncratic lessons, architect and teacher Pier Paolo Tamburelli engages with the very foundations of architecture, proposing a series of new and open-ended perspectives on how we build the world. Developed for the ''Grundkurs'', or ''basic course'', at Vienna Technical University, Tamburelli’s lessons are presented through the annotated sketches(...)
Grundkurs: What is architecture about?
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In this collection of idiosyncratic lessons, architect and teacher Pier Paolo Tamburelli engages with the very foundations of architecture, proposing a series of new and open-ended perspectives on how we build the world. Developed for the ''Grundkurs'', or ''basic course'', at Vienna Technical University, Tamburelli’s lessons are presented through the annotated sketches that form the basis of his lectures – variously rough and precise, sarcastic and sincere, and always uniquely expressive. This volume is a rich visual sourcebook of architectural ideas that form an accessible and discursive introduction to the discipline – one which pauses on the road to grand theories to learn from the intuitive processes of notetaking, drawing, and association. Tamburelli’s lessons are based around a series of dialectic couples, including Roof/Wall, Shelter/Memory, and Language/Action. The pairs are experimental and often provocative, offering a framework to be used to climb in the direction of architecture. Tamburelli trusts in the capacity of images to suspend the restraints of more rigorous theoretical approaches, embraces the flexible wisdom of the note, and relishes the intrigue of the cryptic messages we leave for ourselves. Reproduced here in their entirety, these eight lessons offer countless routes towards, through, and around architecture, providing newcomers and experts alike with an intimate and refreshing encounter with a millennia-old discipline.
Architectural Theory
Larry Sultan: The swimmers
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Between 1978 and 1982, in a departure from the collaborative conceptual work that he had become known for, Larry Sultan photographed people learning to swim in public pools in San Francisco. Initially inspired by black-and-white documentary photograhs he found in a Red Cross swimming manual, Sultan soon began exploring an urge to create pictures that were physical,(...)
Larry Sultan: The swimmers
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Between 1978 and 1982, in a departure from the collaborative conceptual work that he had become known for, Larry Sultan photographed people learning to swim in public pools in San Francisco. Initially inspired by black-and-white documentary photograhs he found in a Red Cross swimming manual, Sultan soon began exploring an urge to create pictures that were physical, sensual, immersive, and painterly. The resulting work is saturated with colour and inflected by the unpredictable forms and chance abstractions which emerge through the distorted refractions of the water as a second lens. Often beautiful and regularly unsettling in their ambiguity, the series builds to create a feeling of sensory immersion alive with the fluid and uncertain atmospheres to which Sultan was drawn. This collection presents all the pictures from the series Sultan himself chose and exhibited, and expands to include additional images he marked on contact sheets as well as further selections from his archive which he likely never even reviewed.
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''Francesca Woodman: The artist’s books'' collects for the first time every page of all eight of Francesca Woodman’s unique artist’s books in one comprehensive volume, including two newly discovered books which have never been seen before, alongside better-known titles such as ''Some Disordered Interior Geometries''. The basis of these works is in tattered nineteenth- and(...)
Francesca Woodman: The artist's books
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''Francesca Woodman: The artist’s books'' collects for the first time every page of all eight of Francesca Woodman’s unique artist’s books in one comprehensive volume, including two newly discovered books which have never been seen before, alongside better-known titles such as ''Some Disordered Interior Geometries''. The basis of these works is in tattered nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century journals and notebooks that Woodman collected from bookshops and flea markets in Rome in the late 1970s. She later transformed these found volumes, attaching her prints, transparencies, and written annotations to their evocative pages. These books demonstrate a sophisticated relationship to narrative and sequence and offer a new understanding of the scope of Woodman’s engagement with the book form.
Contemporary Art Monographs