The Autobiography of Video(1st Edition) The Life and Times of a Memory Technology (Sternberg Press) द्वारा InaBlom Paperback, 256 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2016 द्वारा Sternberg Press Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-3-95679-189-5, ISBN: 3-95679-189-4
"n this innovative take on early video art, Ina Blom considers the widespread notion that analog video was endowed with lifelike memory and agency. Reversing standard accounts of artistic uses of video, she follows the reflexive unfolding of a technology that seemed to deploy artists and artistic frameworks in the creation of new technical and social realities. She documents, among other things, video's emergence through the framework of ..."
"Since the 1990s, acclaimed Norwegian and London-based artist AK Dolven has produced a substantial body of work that explores the relationship between individuals and the perception of their environment, the connections that bind inner and outer realities. Using a diverse range of media, she combines seemingly simple, almost minimalistic elements to create complex responses to a particular locale especially the frozen landscapes of the A ..."
"Palais de Tokyo, with contributions from Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Tom Morton, Mick
Peter, Maxime Matray, (Paris, 2005). On the Semishigure label, cf. www.bottrop-
boy.com interlaced manner. But let's return first to 2004. At that time in Essen, Afif
intended to exhibit four installations Blue Time, Black Spirit, Brume and Everyday
(all 2004). When faced with the question of how to communicate his works, Afif
decided to ask the French art ..."
"Artists have always used their imaginations to see beyond visible matter--to posit other physics, other energies, new ways of conceiving the visible and new models for art--but the past century has seen an explosion of such investigations. In the fashion of a Wunderkammer, The Quick and the Dead takes stock of the 1960s and 70s legacy of experimental, or "research" art by pioneers like George Brecht, who posited objects as motionless ev ..."
"" The undead of contemporary painting, avant-garde populism, photography courting stupidity, fraught networking, synthetic atmospheres, displaced abstractions, and the mediation of pain: these are among the subjects treated in this ..."
"Many contemporary artworks evoke the human figure: consider the omnipresence of the mannequin in current installations of artists like John Miller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Heimo Zobernig, or David Lieske. Or consider the revival of a minimalist vocabulary, which embraces anthropomorphism as in the works of Isa Genzken and Rachel Harrison. This book brings together contributions from the eponymous conference, all of which seek to speculate on ..."
"Les sociétés secrètes sont toujours à l'œuvre dans l'ombre, dit-on. On ne leur en impute pas moins pour autant nombre d’événements qui font date, jusqu’à des révolutions, détentrices comme elles le sont d’un savoir secret qui leur permet de se livrer aux conspirations les plus raffinées avec aisance. Templiers, jésuites, rosicruciens, francs-maçons, théosophes, Opus Dei, CIA, Mafia, ETA, IRA, P2 ou Al-Qaida – tous représentent un danger ..."
On the Style Site(1st Edition) Art, Sociality, and Media Culture (Sternberg Press) द्वारा InaBlom Paperback, 255 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2007 द्वारा Sternberg Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933128-30-6, ISBN: 1-933128-30-5
"This book takes its cue from a simple observation. During the last 30 years or so, the term style has all but disappeared from art critical or art historical terminology. For new art history it was an increasingly problematic term, associated with the taxonomist and historicist concerns of “old” art history, not to speak of its fixation on the figure of the great artist. For contemporary art criticism the term seemed simply irrelevant: ..."
"How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions ? phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a shared storage of the past was set in contrast to fleeting individual memory. But the question of how social memory should be understood in an age of digital computing, instant updating, and interconnection in real tim ..."
Ray Johnson Please Add to & Return (English and Spanish Edition) द्वारा InaBlom, Alex Sainsbury, Chus Martínez, Ray Johnson Paperback, 124 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2010 द्वारा Museu D'art Contemporani De Barcelona (Macba) Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-84-92505-16-6, ISBN: 84-92505-16-8
"Ray Johnson (1927-1995) had an ambivalent relationship with the art world. From famous precursor to impenetrable marginal figure, from critic to artist who yearned for fame at all costs, Johnson intuited his own vital art somewhere between collage and the communicative potential of an immense postal network. Like the MACBA's current monographic exhibition - the first in Spain dedicated to his work - this book mostly focuses on the New Y ..."
"During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favour of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters. Their work engages directly with the vicissitudes of everyday life, offering subtle moments of transformation. This catalogue, which accompanies a m ..."
"In occasione della mostra di Tobias Rehebrger presso la Fondazione Prada a Milano sono stati realizzati due volumi legati tra loro da una serie di elastici colorati. I due libri, completamente diversi nella struttura compositiva e nei contenuti, consistono: in una analitica ricostruzione cronologica di tutte le mostre personali realizzate da Rehberger a partire dal 1990 fino al 2007 e di un libro d'artista. Nel primo volume ogni evento ..."
"The eye is the dominant sensory organ of our age, with more and more information received in still and moving images, and more and more information mined visually from spatial dimensions that are ever smaller and ever greater. The use of a wide variety of optical devices has long been second nature to us, and their methods of extending the reach of our sight--virtually and really--have instigated fundamental, far-reaching changes in our ..."
""Elmgreen & Dragset: Performances 1995-2011" showcases 43 performances and live works by Danish-Norwegian artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, marking the first time the artists' practice is considered in depth from a performance perspective. Spanning nearly two decades, many of the works have never before appeared in a catalogue. The book includes image documentation and descriptions of each work along with full scripts--accessible here for ..."
"Leon Battista Alberti's 1435 treatise "De pictura" influenced generations of painters by suggesting that a painting should be approached as an open window. By the twentieth century, the window had transformed into a motif that would test the limits of painting. With his 1920 "Fresh Widow"--a replica of a French window with panes covered in black leather--Marcel Duchamp postulated a farewell to illusionist painting. This publication pres ..."
"In the exhibition, "Power Has a Fragrance," Gardar Eide Einarsson explores the principal structures of social conflict in modern society.The dual theme of authority and rebellion is a departure point for his visually hermetic, mostly black and white paintings, carefully constructed sculptures, photographs, videos, flags and flyers. Drawing heavily on graffiti, skateboarding and punk music, he engages with alternative and abject cultures ..."
"Torbjorn Rodland is to photography what the Pet Shop Boys are to pop: a master of the delicately orchestrated cliche overload, a surcharge of the too obvious, too cute or too insane, played to the point where, drained of all trace of common sense, it suggests a new sense of silence, of mystery. Rodland has a knack for producing images that make you ask what are, in fact, appropriate motives for art photography: Images of single audio or ..."