A bold new spatial perspective on modern sculpture, with 800 color images of work by artists including Henry Moore, Lygia Clark, Anish Kapoor, and Ana Mendieta.
This monumental, richly illustrated volume from ZKM Karlsruhe approaches modern sculpture from a spatial perspective, interpreting it though contour, emptiness, and levitation rather than the conventional categories of unbroken volume, mass, and gravity. It examines works by dozens of twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists, including Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Lygia Clark, Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Ana Mendieta, Fujiko Nakaya, Tomás Saraceno, and Alicja Kwade. The large-scale book contains over 800 color images.
Negative Space comes out of an epic exhibition at ZKM, and volume editor Peter Weibel (Chairman and CEO of ZKM) takes a curatorial approach to the topic. The last exhibition to deal comprehensively with the question "What is modern sculpture?" was at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1986. Weibel and ZKM pick up where the Pompidou left off, examining sculptures not as figurative, solid, and self-contained monoliths but in terms of open and hollow spaces; reflection, light, shadow; innovative materials; data; and the moving image. Weibel puts advances in science, architecture, and mathematics in the context of avant-garde sensibilities to show how modern sculpture significantly deviates from the work of the past. Texts in the volume include an introduction and twelve chapters written by Weibel with contributions by cocurators as well as facsimiles and reproductions of artist-authored manifestos.
Essays and images that map art''s new sonic cosmos, illustrated in color throughout. This milestone volume maps fifty years of artists'' engagement with sound. Since the beginning of the new millennium, numerous historical and critical works have established sound art as an artistic genre in its own right, with an accepted genealogy that begins with Futurism, Dada, and Fluxus, as well as disciplinary classifications that effectively restrict artistic practice to particular tools and venues. This book, companion volume to a massive exhibition at ZKM Karlsruhe, goes beyond these established disciplinary divides to chart the evolution and the full potential of sound as a medium of art. The book begins with an extensive overview by volume editor Peter Weibel that considers the history of sound as media art, examining work by visual artists, composers, musicians, and architects alike. Subsequent essays examine sound experiments in antiquity, sonification of art and science, and internet-based sound art. Contributors then survey the global field of sound art research and practice, in essays that describe the past, present, and future of sound art in Germany, Japan, China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, Canada, Turkey, Australia, and Scandinavia. The texts are accompanied by an extensive photographic documentation of the ZKM exhibition. Texts by Achille Bonito Oliva, Dmitry Bulatov, Germano Celant, Seth Cluett, Christoph Cox, Julia Gerlach, Ryo Ikeshiro und/and Atau Tanaka, Caleb Kelly, Brandon LaBelle, Christof Migone, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Daniel Muzyczuk, Tony Myatt, Irene Noy, Giuliano Obici, Carsten Seiffarth und/and Bernd Schulz, Baak enova, Linnea Semmerling, Morten Søndergaard, Alexandra Supper, David Toop und/and Adam Parkinson, Peter Weibel, Dajuin Yao, Siegfried Zielinski
Un hommage à Günter Brus par un ensemble d'experts et d'intervenants internationaux, philosophes, critiques d'art, historiens, conservateurs, artistes et musiciens (livre accompagné d'un CD audio d'une pièce musicale composée par Olga Neuwirth et Burkhard Stangle).
From Greek antiquity to the present, from the book to the gramophone, from Gutenberg to Google, our culture is defined by changes in recording, storage, and transmission media. In a six-volume selection of his writings, Peter Weibel presents an encyclopedia that addresses all areas of the media world. The author has conceived this series as following in the tradition of the Enlightenment and the Encyclopedie by Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert. Three volumes will be published in September 2014, and the remaining three in spring 2015. Volume one deals with a broad definition of architecture in the context of new media. Volume two is devoted to media-relat ed innovations in the area of music-from automatic methods of composition in the music of Mozart to a theory of molecular music. Volume three addresses the impact of new media on art and discusses how pictures become interactive and viewers become part of the work-how reality replaces representation. The themes of the other three volumes are literature, pol itics, and theory in the context of new media.
La Deuxième Guerre mondiale a aussi frappé le milieu artistique comme une bombe. Art in Europe 1945-1968 montre comment des artistes comme Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon ou encore Fernand Léger ont intégré dans leur oeuvre le traumatisme des années 40-45 et du début de la Guerre froide. Ce livre rassemble 180 oeuvres de 150 artistes diférents et mêle pour la première fois l'art d'après-guerre présent tant en Europe orientale qu'occidentale. À travers des textes clairs et approfondis, des experts comme Peter Sloterdijk, Peter Weibel, Eckhart Gillen ou encore Alexander Borovsky mettent en lumière les différentes évolutions et tendances artistiques, allant de l' « art macabre » des premières années de guerre à l'émergence du pop art britannique, en passant par l'art engagé à la veille des révolutions de la fin des années 60.
"More than a cabinet of curiosities, more than a terrarium, more than an aquarium" a captivating look at thirty years of artistic work by the Austrian-French artist duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau.
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. Edited by Karin Ohlenschläger, Peter Weibel, and Alfred Weidinger, this publication in the Leonardo book series brings together key works of the artists since the early 1990s in pictures and text contextualized by renowned international authors: Reinhard Kannonier, Ryszard W. Kluszczynski, Birgit Mersmann, Tomoe Moriyama, Karin Ohlenschläger, Ingeborg Reichle, and Siegfried Zielinski.
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. As Peter Weibel writes, their work is "more than a cabinet of curiosities, more than a terrarium, more than an aquarium; it shows mythical creatures, artificial creatures, [and] a so far unseen panorama of imagination and technical ingenuity."
From Greek antiquity to the present, from the book to the gramophone, from Gutenberg to Google, our culture is defined by changes in recording, storage, and transmission media. In a six-volume selection of his writings, Peter Weibel presents an encyclopedia that addresses all areas of the media world. The author has conceived this series as following in the tradition of the Enlightenment and the Encyclopedie by Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert. Three volumes will be published in September 2014, and the remaining three in spring 2015. Volume one deals with a broad definition of architecture in the context of new media. Volume two is devoted to media-relat ed innovations in the area of music-from automatic methods of composition in the music of Mozart to a theory of molecular music. Volume three addresses the impact of new media on art and discusses how pictures become interactive and viewers become part of the work-how reality replaces representation. The themes of the other three volumes are literature, pol itics, and theory in the context of new media.
Hacking Identity - Dancing Diversity opens a vivid kaleidoscope of artistic notions of identity that reflect upon the particular and the universal, the aesthetic and the intellectual, the historical and the futuristic, the human and the non-human. Organized in cooperation with the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, a unique cultural institution in Europe, expanding the original tasks of a museum by combining research, exhibitions and performances, the exhibition is curated by Anett Holzheid, scientific consultant at ZKM, and Peter Weibel, its chairman and CEO.
Un ensemble de contributions et d'oeuvres d'une quinzaine d'artistes internationaux autour du concept de « biomédia » pensé et mis en perspective par Peter Weibel (ZKM), explorant la coexistence des formes de vie organiques et inorganiques et les interactions possibles entre les écosystèmes et la technologie.
Le propos de « BioMedia » est le point de réflexions entre le ZKM, Centre d'Art et des Médias de Karlsruhe et le Centre des arts d'Enghien-les-Bains, autour de nouvelles perspectives artistiques et scientifiques. Cet ouvrage convoque ici un ensemble de contributions autour du concept de biomédia pensé et mis en perspective par Peter Weibel, Président et Directeur Général du ZKM. De cette parole, viennent ensuite s'articuler un ensemble de réflexions, celles d'Ingeborg Reichle, Docteure et Maîtresse de conférences ou encore celles des co-commissaires de l'exposition Daria Mille et Sarah Donderer. Enfin, les recherches des artistes viennent apporter cette double entrée des biomédias dans leur acception tantôt technologique et robotique, tantôt biologique et environnementaux. La quinzaine d'artistes présentés participent ici à contextualiser une posture de la création contemporaine et imaginer le spectre de fictions possibles qui pourraient être autant de prémices de formes de vie futures.
« Le XXIe siècle sera le siècle des biomédias. [...] L'objectif des biomédias n'est pas la création d'art biologique (bio-art) à partir de ressources biologiques, naturelles, organiques, mais la création d'un art utilisant des matériaux technologiques, artificiels, inorganiques pour créer des comportements semblables à la vie. BioMedia désigne tout système médiatique présentant des comportements similaires à celui des organismes naturels. Ils ressemblent à des organismes vivants capables de réagir de façon autonome à leur environnement et aux autres êtres. ».
Peter Weibel.
Oeuvres de Anna Dumitriu, Jake Elwes, Justine Emard, Stephanie Dinkins, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Alex May, Christian Mio Loclair, Matthew Lutz, Alessia Nigretti, Sascha Pohflepp, Maija Tammi, Jeoen Van Der Most, Peter Van Der Putten, Fabien Zocco.
Publié à l'occasion des expositions L'ère des médias semblables à la vie au Centre des arts, Enghien-les-Bains, et The Age of Media with Life-like Behavior au ZKM, Karlsruhe, en 2021-2022.
