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Les êtres vivants sont aujourd’hui soumis à un processus de domestication, d’exploitation et de manipulation sans précédent. Repousser les limites du vivant est devenu un enjeu majeur de nos sociétés. Ce projet d’actualiser et de déployer les virtualités des organismes biologiques s’inscrit dans une dynamique plus vaste et totalisante qui vise l’illimitation comme horizon(...)
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Les limites du vivant: à la lisière de l'art, de la philosophie et des sciences de la nature
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Les êtres vivants sont aujourd’hui soumis à un processus de domestication, d’exploitation et de manipulation sans précédent. Repousser les limites du vivant est devenu un enjeu majeur de nos sociétés. Ce projet d’actualiser et de déployer les virtualités des organismes biologiques s’inscrit dans une dynamique plus vaste et totalisante qui vise l’illimitation comme horizon global. À la démesure des ambitions affichées correspond fréquemment un manque de conception d’ensemble qui entraîne des conséquences pour le moins problématiques, voire néfastes. Une vision trop simpliste véhicule le plus souvent des approches et des modèles réducteurs favorisant la perpétuation d’un processus destructeur qui n’a plus raison d’être. Dans une démarche inter et transdisciplinaire, ce livre prend en compte les apports de scientifiques, d’artistes, d’historiens, de philosophes et d’économistes dans une volonté de clarifier les enjeux et les perspectives liés à la question du vivant et de sa complexité.
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La ville est notre horizon à tous, elle est là et il est difficile de la justifier ou même de l'expliquer. Pourtant, les enjeux sociétaux et environnementaux actuels (changements climatiques, désindustrialisation, remise en cause des usages domestiques, nouvelles modalités du travail, etc.) nous poussent à nous intéresser à nos modes de faire et de penser la ville.(...)
Urbanisme de dalle, d'hier à demain
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La ville est notre horizon à tous, elle est là et il est difficile de la justifier ou même de l'expliquer. Pourtant, les enjeux sociétaux et environnementaux actuels (changements climatiques, désindustrialisation, remise en cause des usages domestiques, nouvelles modalités du travail, etc.) nous poussent à nous intéresser à nos modes de faire et de penser la ville. Regarder en arrière, ce n'est pas revenir en arrière. Pour briser les évidences et sortir des tabous, l'auteure nous propose de redécouvrir une histoire de la ville moderne, à travers une analyse illustrée de nombreux documents d'époque et de témoignages, afin d'en tirer des enseignements pour l'avenir. Exemples à l'appui, vous découvrirez notamment qu'il suffit de revendiquer la modernité pour qu'elle nous échappe ! Lorsqu'il s'agit de régler des contraintes inhérentes au site, certains principes urbanistiques des années 1950-1970 comme la dalle, semblent alors éminemment d'actualité dans de nombreux projets d'aménagement.
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Inégalités urbaines
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Rien ne garantit, aujourd’hui, qu’une évolution soutenable des sociétés humaines puisse être atteinte. Mais dans?la mesure où ce projet représente notre seul horizon collectif possible, il sera à la fois la cause et le résultat d’un changement drastique de nos modes de vie qui ne pourra aboutir sans l’adhésion volontaire de chacun. Comme Bernardo Secchi l’a soutenu à(...)
Inégalités urbaines
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Rien ne garantit, aujourd’hui, qu’une évolution soutenable des sociétés humaines puisse être atteinte. Mais dans?la mesure où ce projet représente notre seul horizon collectif possible, il sera à la fois la cause et le résultat d’un changement drastique de nos modes de vie qui ne pourra aboutir sans l’adhésion volontaire de chacun. Comme Bernardo Secchi l’a soutenu à diverses reprises, répondre à cet impératif écologique réclame avant tout de lutter contre les inégalités urbaines et de mettre en œuvre une véritable politique de droit à la ville. Le présent ouvrage élargit cette réflexion et ouvre des perspectives théoriques pour des projets de villes dont les enjeux spatiaux favorisent une société soutenable universelle. À travers l’analyse de plusieurs cas concrets, Inégalités urbaines rend compte d’une pensée architecturale et urbaine qui croise les stratégies sociales, la question des risques et la politique de la ville.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
Time and photography
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Photography is fundamentally a time-based medium. The relationships between photography and time are manifold: snapshots are slices of time, time can be directly represented within the image, time can be photographys theme and philosophical horizon, photographic practices develop and change across time. This book brings together the various aspect of time in photography(...)
Time and photography
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Photography is fundamentally a time-based medium. The relationships between photography and time are manifold: snapshots are slices of time, time can be directly represented within the image, time can be photographys theme and philosophical horizon, photographic practices develop and change across time. This book brings together the various aspect of time in photography and of photography in time. Its chapters focus on seminal authors (including Fox Talbot, Victor Burgin, and Robert Morris) and genres, with examples ranging from the very first photographic pictures to the most recent uses of photography in and outside art. Given the multifaceted dimensions of the notion of time, the book fosters an interdisciplinary approach, gathering essays by historians of photography as well as by authors with a critical or philosophical background. It shows how some interpretations of photography are indebted to fields that have a great expertise in analyzing time, such as narratology and literature.
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Taewon jang : stained ground
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Ominous, overwhelming, and harshly lit at night—Korean photographer Taewon Jang (1976 in Seoul) puts industrial plants at the center of his work. He documented abandoned steel factories, nuclear reactors, cooling towers, storage containers, or briskly working oil refineries to depict the traces of humans’ effort to survive in modern era. Residential buildings seem tiny(...)
Taewon jang : stained ground
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Ominous, overwhelming, and harshly lit at night—Korean photographer Taewon Jang (1976 in Seoul) puts industrial plants at the center of his work. He documented abandoned steel factories, nuclear reactors, cooling towers, storage containers, or briskly working oil refineries to depict the traces of humans’ effort to survive in modern era. Residential buildings seem tiny in comparison, and the overall scale has obviously shifted. Jang prefers to show us these industrial landscapes in the gray of the dawn, or the red of dusk, by moonlight, in fog or snow; sometimes he shifts a gnarled tree into the foreground, but despite—or perhaps precisely because of—these potentially romantic, idyllic topoi, the viewer senses an uncanny, apocalyptic mood. Large, apparently deserted industrial plants dominate the horizon, yet moving backhoes, cranes, and conveyor belts give the impression they might have a hazardous life of their own.
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For the Kosovo Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, artist Flaka Haliti created the installation Speculating on the Blue, reflecting on the meaning of borders, democracy, freedom and mobility. The skeletons of barrier-like objects in the space are a reference to the aesthetics of the concrete walls that are erected between nations as a materialization of conflict.(...)
Flaka Haliti: speculating on the blue
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For the Kosovo Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, artist Flaka Haliti created the installation Speculating on the Blue, reflecting on the meaning of borders, democracy, freedom and mobility. The skeletons of barrier-like objects in the space are a reference to the aesthetics of the concrete walls that are erected between nations as a materialization of conflict. Haliti’s installation aims at demilitarizing and decontextualizing this specific aesthetic practice by stripping the columns down to their material essence and juxtaposing them with elements that are by nature resistant to the concept of borders. In this scenario, the horizon and the blue pictorial ground, which directly references the blue-painted barriers in front of the Kosovo UN, create a counter image to the concept of borders as a tool to raise new perspectives. In addition is an artist’s conversation with Markus Miessen and an essay by curator Vanessa Joan Müller.
Théorie de l’art
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Working at the intersection of natural science, technology, and art, Austrian-French artist duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau pioneered the ''Art of interface''—innovative technical interfaces that enable physical interaction between simulative visual worlds and the world of natural sensory organs. Early on, the pair used algorithms to represent not only forms(...)
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Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau: The artwork as a living system 1992-2022
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Working at the intersection of natural science, technology, and art, Austrian-French artist duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau pioneered the ''Art of interface''—innovative technical interfaces that enable physical interaction between simulative visual worlds and the world of natural sensory organs. Early on, the pair used algorithms to represent not only forms of the living but also their evolution and growth. In the artists’ installations, which are possible only through interactions with the viewer, devices designed by the artist couple produce novel virtual realities and immersive environments. In ''Portrait on the fly,'' for instance, a viewer stands in front of an interactive plasma screen, behind which a swarm of thousands of flies is moving. Gradually, the flies settle on the shadowed areas of the projection, thereby collectively reproducing the person’s likeness. Works such as these, now almost classics of digital art, open a new horizon in which artworks can function as living systems.
For a sovereign Europe
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A specter haunts Europe: the specter of sovereignty. Legacy of a prestigious political tradition, sovereignty has metamorphosed into a monster in the 19th century, with the advent of nationalism and the ensuing catastrophes that tainted the globe in blood. Today, at a time when nationalist passions seem to be back with a vengeance, a renewed call for sovereignty presents(...)
For a sovereign Europe
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A specter haunts Europe: the specter of sovereignty. Legacy of a prestigious political tradition, sovereignty has metamorphosed into a monster in the 19th century, with the advent of nationalism and the ensuing catastrophes that tainted the globe in blood. Today, at a time when nationalist passions seem to be back with a vengeance, a renewed call for sovereignty presents itself as a return towards populations and territories to be defended. Any project aiming at doing away with nations and finding the route towards a larger political ensembles seems to be barred by what is now presented as a sacred value – the one of a people selecting its own way of being governed. But what if this was wrong? What if sovereignty could designate another horizon than the one of nations? What if Europe could become the place for a new experiment on the meaning and extension of sovereignty and democracy? This would mean a sovereign Europe.
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For Georges Didi-Huberman, artist James Turrell is an inventor of impossible spaces and unthinkable sites, of aporias, of fables. Creator of some of the most fascinating works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, Turrell uses as his medium the most elemental material of sight and art: light. One crucial aspect of his work is the fabulation of place and(...)
The man who walked in color: James Turrell
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For Georges Didi-Huberman, artist James Turrell is an inventor of impossible spaces and unthinkable sites, of aporias, of fables. Creator of some of the most fascinating works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, Turrell uses as his medium the most elemental material of sight and art: light. One crucial aspect of his work is the fabulation of place and vision with its foundation deep in history. Didi-Huberman takes the reader on a journey between the impossible limit of the horizon and the arrival into a site of reverie and light, from the story of Exodus to the Pala d’Oro of San Marco’s Basilica in Venice, through art history and the origins of religious worship, finally plunging into Turrell’s cadmium dust and light, into the Painted Desert of his installation Roden Crater. For the esteemed art historian, Turrell’s artistic practice becomes the equivalent of walking along endless pathways in the desert, in “minuscule cathedrals where man discovers himself walking in color.”
Théorie de l’art
Paul Rousteau: Seascapes
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French artist Paul Rousteau is known for his alchemic light and colour-bending approach to photography. Seascapes is a series made by Rousteau while artist-in-residence on a boat off the Coral Sea, in Australia. Inspired by the unending horizons around him, Rousteau retreated to the darkroom to invent mental topographies of his own, reducing the landscape down to the(...)
Paul Rousteau: Seascapes
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French artist Paul Rousteau is known for his alchemic light and colour-bending approach to photography. Seascapes is a series made by Rousteau while artist-in-residence on a boat off the Coral Sea, in Australia. Inspired by the unending horizons around him, Rousteau retreated to the darkroom to invent mental topographies of his own, reducing the landscape down to the barest constituent elements – water, air and light. Often saturated, interrupted or out of focus, his photographs are series of playful experiments navigating between figuration and abstraction, painting and digital art. These constructed landscapes invite us to consider the point where human imagination interacts with the landscape - how fantasies of distance, displacement and faraway places are projected onto the horizon. Existing somewhere between vision, imagination and a surreal, submerged reality, Rousteau extends this fiction through globetrotting captions and an innovative design that invites readers to rip away and reappropriate the seascapes as their own.
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