Seeing with Eyes Closed – Association of Neuroesthetics

Seeing with Eyes Closed brings together contributions from the participants of the symposium organized by the Association of Neuroesthetics, Berlin, at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, on 2nd June 2011.

The symposium takes its title from an interdisciplinary project by artist Ivana Franke and neuroscientist Ida Momennejad, conceived through the support of Alexander Abbushi and the AoN. The project concerns the visual experience of flowing images induced by stroboscopic light behind closed eyes. Being aware that the seen images have no foundation in external reality, one experiences them as hallucinatory. This ‘conscious quasi-hallucinating’ challenges our sense of the real in its alternation and its permeability with the imaginary. Each person’s experience differs from that of others, and each ascribes different dimensions to the perceived space in constant transformation. Communicating the content of this ephemeral flux of unpredictable percepts stretches the limits of acquiring subjective report to extremes, and challenges the scientific aspiration to precisely measure the timing of conscious phenomena.
Edited by Elena Agudio and Ivana Franke.
Graphic Design by Sibilla Ferrara / Makingthinkshappen

Published by the Association of Neuroesthetics, Berlin.
89 pages.

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Ioana Nemes: Monthly Evaluations (Time Exposure)

Published in conjunction with the eponymous solo exhibition of Ioana Nemes at Jiri Svestka Gallery in Prague, 2008.

Texts: Alina Serban, Stuart Aarsman
Art inside covers: Ion Grigorescu
Graphic Design: Anja Lutz

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The Responsive Subject: from OOOOOO to FFFFFF, FormContent.

With contributions by Guy Mees, Andrea Büttner, Michael Dean, Beatrice Gibson & Will Holder, Gyan Panchal, Ian Kiaer, João Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Andrew Renton, Nick Thurston, Nanni Balestrini, Ruth Höflich, Bridget Penney, Tom Benson, Simone Menegoi, Philomene Pirecki and Shaan Syed Published by FormContent 17 May 2011

PSYCHOPOMP COUNSEL, De Ateliers: Offspring 2011.

This book is published in the Offspring series to coincide with the exhibition PSYCHOPOMP COUNSEL at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, May 11 – May 22, 2011.

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L’ile de La Répétition, Benoît Maire (ed).
Published by Dent De Leone and designed by Åbake.

John Keats, Thomas Chatterton, Søren Kirkegaard, Emily Dickinson live their lives and die for ever on this Island. The concept of Cordelia takes physical shape and becomes the obsession of John. based on Benoît Maire’s film & exhibition:
L’Ile de La Répétition (Repetition Island) and L’Espace Nu.

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Christopher Williams – Program.
For Example: Dix-Huit Lecons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 10)

Published by: Bergen Kunsthall, 2010
Editors: Bergen Kunsthall, Christopher Williams
Texts: Solveig Øvstebø, Diedrich Diederichsen, John Kelsey, Christopher Williams
Design: Christopher Williams, Petra Hollenbach
Pages: 80, Illustrations: 34
Language: English / Norwegian

I Saettatori – Francesco Barocco – Mousse Publishing

I Saettatori is a dual-language (Italian / English) catalogue from Mousse Publishing with texts by Marcello Smarrelli and Francesco Barocco.

The introduction begins: “A minor enigma ruffles the classical composure of the work created by Francesco Barocco, winner of the 12th Ermanno Casoli Contemporary Art Award. The themes that emerged during the creation of this work are typical of his research and are the same themes that have long animated art history debates: the role of the artist, the function of art, its meaning, the genesis of artwork, its relationship with the observer.”

Pages: 30

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Local Myths/Love Spells – Jennifer Tee – Eastside Projects

Local Myths/Love Spells is a 24-page cut-book with 22 inserts, including foldout posters, postcards, and booklets. It was printed on the occasion of Jennifer Tee’s September 25 to November 6, 2010 exhibition of the same name at Eastside Projects. Also includes a prologue by Gavin Wade and an essay by Monika Szewcyk.

Designed by Niessen & de Vries and James Langdon
Printed by Mart. Spruijt, Amsterdam

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Kurt Kranz: Die Programmierung des Schönen [Programming Beauty] – Spector Books

For many years, the artist Kurt Kranz explored the foundations of visual design – colour, form and structure – through consistently new and quasi-scientific processes. In doing so, he drew on theories of geometry, colour and cognitive psychology. During his studies at the Bauhaus, Kranz was inspired in important ways by his teachers Josef Albers, Walter Peterhans, Joost Schmidt, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. His research into the foundations of visual art led Kranz to develop design principles that, in the strict sense of the Bauhaus program, he implemented in the fields of both free and applied art, including painting, drawing, typography, graphic design, exhibition design, book design and film.

The works selected for this publication are representative of individual groups of works, each of which is based on a different generative technique. “I look for rules, principles, methods or processes that generate change by visual means and lead to a consistent process that is governed by intuition” (Kurt Kranz). Although the developments occur within a certain framework, there are often phases where the visual experiment develops its own dynamic and Kurt Kranz gives his artistic intuition free reign.

Published by Spector Books
Edition of 700
Designed by Müller & Wesse
Dessau / Leipzig 2011

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Davide Cascio – E.N. , Spector Books

The idea for this catalogue came about in the spring of 2008 when Davide Cascio began planning a series of exhibitions to be held that fall at four locations: the art space FormContent in London, the gallery Agenzia04 in Bologna, The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in Riga, and at the Kunsthalle Basel. Each of the exhibitions came together by means of a unique process, presented a different perspective and originated from the same idea: to examine the ambivalence of esprit nouveau thinking within the different contexts of the individual institutions. The series of exhibitions serve as the backdrop for this catalogue. This book — a collection of texts and images brought together and discussed as the exhibitions were being prepared and after they concluded — is intended as a system of footnotes to the works by Davide Cascio.

Published by Spector Books
128 pages, English
Design: Pascal Storz
Edited by Egija Inzule
Leipzig 2011

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