Photography has always depended on the extraction and exploitation of so-called natural raw materials. Having started out using copper, coal, silver, and paper—the raw materials of analogue image production in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—pho …

Herausgeberin: Ricarda Löser Gestaltung: Ricarda Löser 144 Seiten 3 Abbildungen 13,5 x 20,5 cm, Hardcover 978-3-944903-87-3 (deutsch) 500 Exemplare Sein Leben beginnt ausgerechnet mit dem Satz „er atmet“ – eine künstlerische Textcollage. Dieser Text be …

Born in 1955 in a poor district of São Paulo, Ismael Ivo became one of the world’s most famous and successful dancers. As instigator and director of festivals like the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna, he shaped dance history. Artistically, he forged clos …

Mit Texten von  Jasmina Al-Qaisi, Sven Bergelt, Denise Blickhan, Dieter Daniels, D.I.Y. Church, GERÄUSCHKULISSE, Maximilian Glass, Maria Karpushina, Tina Klatte, Kotombola, Alexander Körner, Felix Kubin, Benjamin Kunath, Liquid Penguin Ensemble, Michae …

Martin Maleschka Mit weiteren Beiträgen von Thomas Topfstedt, Peer Pasternack und Luise Rellensmann Zur kulturellen Hinterlassenschaft der DDR gehört eine bemerkenswert große Anzahl an Kunstwerken im ­öffentlichen Raum. Diese Arbeiten waren ein integra …

Wenn Daten der größte kollektive Schatz einer digitalen Gesellschaft sind, Grundmaterial für Wirtschaft und Politik: Warum sind die Orte, an denen sie gespeichert werden, immer noch so unsichtbar? Diese Frage untersucht Niklas Maak, Architekturkritiker …

Silent green present the most comprehensive solo exhibition in Germany to date on the last creative period of the French filmmaker, photographer and visual artist Agnès Varda, who died in 2019. Varda is regarded as one of the most influential creative …

American Bauhaus creates a space for the history of Black Mountain College, which provided a new creative home for many World War II refugees in Europe from 1933 to 1957 and allowed the Bauhaus to live on in the United States. A unique place of freedom …

extended experimental ambient techno longplayer by lowtec enjoy floating into the pure electronic bliss side a: 8 tracks, total time 34:50 side b: 7 tracks, total time 35:35 (direct metal mastering) hand-stamped inner lables printed innersleeve artwork …

Nous aurons aussi de beaux jours: Écrits de prison was published in 2019 by the French publisher Éditions des femmes – Antoinette Fouque. The book is a compilation of letters written by Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan to her Turkish friend Na …

Mit der internationalen Gruppenausstellung “Virtual Normality – Netzkünstlerinnen 2.0” widmet sich mit dem Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig erstmals ein Museum im deutschsprachigen Raum dem weiblichen Blick im Zeitalter digitaler Inszenierung. Mit j …

Die Nutzung der sozialen Medien ist Alltag geworden, etablierte und junge Künstler*innen können und wollen nicht mehr darauf verzichten. Sie arbeiten damit. Sie sind dort, wo ihr Publikum ist. Einst waren es Websites, heute sind es die sozialen Medien, …

Dynamic robot-based planning and execution tools open up previously inconceivable design possibilities in the landscape architecture of the 21st century Edited by Ilmar Hurkxkens, Fujan Fahmi and Ammar Mirjan 1st edition , 2022 Text in English Paperbac …

Questions of privacy, borders, and nationhood are increasingly shaping the way we think about all things digital. Data Centers brings together essays and photographic documentation that analyze recent and ongoing developments. Taking Switzerland as an …

With his artistic research project CYTTER, Christian Doeller undertakes a speculative investigation of digital transformation processes. As an essential part of the project, he founded the CYTTER.datalab: a data laboratory in which humans, machines, an …

“Rekapitulieren” deals with a specific historical symbol and its side-lines: the storming of the Reichstag by the Red Army in 1945 and its re-enactment for the public in an amusement park near Moscow in 2017, which was initiated by the Russian Ministry …

Bart van der Heide plädiert mit dieser Publikation dafür, dass Techno-Musik nicht nur als ekstatisches sowie kollektives Erlebnis fungieren, sondern auch als Plattform für gesellschaftskritische Diskurse dienen kann. Welche kulturellen Phänomene und so …

The Department of Speculative Facts connects two seemingly contradictory approaches: Speculation which attempts to think and act beyond existing knowledge and structures, and fact-checkers in search for a solid consensus on which our reality can be bui …

This hands-on workbook playfully explores the tension between originality, imitation and individual taste by delving into Gerrit Rietveld’s design legacy through a selection of five do-it-yourself-copies of his iconic chair designs. Who are the people …

Equally inspired by medieval bestiaries and observations of our damaged planet, A Bestiary of the Anthropocene is a compilation of hybrid creatures of our time. Designed as a field handbook, it aims at helping us observe, navigate, and orientate into t …

In 1991, the first issue of Dazed & Confused was released as a single A2 fold out newsprint by a then twenty-year-old Jefferson Hack and the photographer Rankin. Now, thirty years later, what began as a print magazine has gone on to provoke a chang …

The performance of computer-generated music breaks with the codes that have been established for concerts: the audience can no longer watch as music is created, and the causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. The laptop performance h …

The performance of computer-generated music breaks with the codes that have been established for concerts: the audience can no longer watch as music is created, and the causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. The laptop performance h …

The Handbook for Social, Ecological and Existential Utopia is published on occasion of the exhibition Life on Planet Orsimanirana. It understands itself as a ”collidoscope“ of a decentralised, non-hierarchical and generative process of world building b …

What is photography? Can the question be explored using literary means? When the photographic image is reflected in the literary afterimage, can one speak of reflection? In this anthology, compiled from the master’s degree in Cultural Publishing at the …

In this provocative intellectual biography, architectural historian Mark Wigley makes the surprising claim that the thinking behind modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann’s legendary projects was dominated by the idea of television. While architecture is …

”To my astonishment, there are but few charismatic idols in the 400-year tradition of the bourgeois industrial revolution: Washington, Jefferson, the women in the Paris marketplace in 1789—those female freedom fighters marching on Versailles and bringi …

Since the dawn of humankind, our planet has been profoundly affected by the constant, exponential increase in the world’s population. Having gone from being a flat disc to a sphere, the Earth is now architecture. This does not mean that it has been sup …

In den 1920er Jahren entwickelte der Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaftler Aby Warburg seinen Bilderatlas Mnemosyne. Für dieses Projekt studierte er die motivischen Wechselwirkungen zwischen Kunstwerken aus der Antike und der Renaissance bis hin zur Gegenwa …

The shift towards digital modes of production has fundamentally changed both cartography and graphic design. The omni-present computer, the interactive possibilities of digital media and the direct exchange of visual information through networks have b …

The World of Madelon Vriesendorp reveals for the first time a significant, and nearly secret, corpus of work notable for its wild diversity. Though Vriesendorp is best known for her seminal cycle of anthropomorphic architectural paintings, her extensiv …

Garbage Man – could refer to Tal R himself as manic collector of what other people would perhaps refer to as refuse. Collecting and arranging of images is an integral component of his artistic practice and arises in its own manifestation from an inner …

New and revised edition of Iñaki Ábalos’s highly acclaimed book on seven iconic 20th-century houses, some of them actually built, others merely imagined or realized as film sets.

A comprehensive overview on the French artist who has transformed cities worldwide with his epic portraits of their inhabitants Over the past two decades, French artist JR has massively expanded the impact of public art through his ambitious projects t …

The flag bearing twelve yellow stars on a blue background has become Europe’s most recognisable symbol. Since its introduction by the Council of Europe in 1955, it has stood for the unification of Europe’s nation states. It was precisely this yellow ci …

In diesem Band wird mittels zusammengetragener Echt-Foto-Ansichts- karten der DDR ein vielfältiger Blick auf die Ostmoderne Architektur in Gera möglich. Sie zeigen eindrucksvoll die einstige Neubauarchitektur, Inneneinrichtung sowie die Bildkunstwerke, …

If African American experience emerges from the structure of slavery, how does architecture relate to that experience? African Americans have claimed space in unexpected locations – often in opposition to architecture as a Eurocentric discipline that h …

Das Arbeitende Konzert (AK) / The Working Concert is a performative installation work focused on concerts and their representations as creative media, whereby concerts are understood not as neutral frames but as a form of artistic expression and as cri …

Bauhaus and documenta are two globally successful cultural brands, representing a modern Germany that is both cosmopolitan and innovative. They both came into being at a time when civilization was in a state of collapse, and they both exemplify the ide …

errestrial Tales: 100+ Takes on Earth is a collection of representations of the globe over the last 2000 years – from a sculpture of the 2nd century Farnese Atlas, in which the celestial sphere rests heavily on the Titan’s shoulders, to one of the many …

Every image in ‘All Our Suns’ is taken from Olaf Nicolai’s collection of pictures of outer space that have been printed in daily newspapers. These images suggest a high degree of objectivity, though technological settings as well as individual wishes a …

The work of Miranda July—the most impressively cross-disciplinary artist of her generation—is brought into focus in this mid-career retrospective. From her early rarely seen Riot Grrrl-influenced fanzines and performances to a career that has produced …

‘Good and Plenty’ reflected and embodied the technology of a brief period between the late 1980s and early ’90s. This book looks at seven issues of the fanzine through the lens of graphic design and typography. Contributions from graphic designers, edu …

Chantal Akerman was surely one of the most exceptional film-makers of her time—not least because, as a woman, she radically changed the way the camera eyed its subjects and because, as the daughter of Polish Jewish emigrants, she saw the metropolitan c …