Books in the Art - Knowledge - Theory series

In this collaborative work between artist and theorist Suzanne Anker and art historian Sabine Flach, the study of image production unveils the reality of pictures beyond their function as mere representations of the world. The visuals range from firsthand accounts of specimen collections in historical medical museums, to scientific research laboratories, to studies of plant propagation, among other themes concerning life forms and Bio Art. Focusing on systems of artistic knowledge, the authors demonstrate how context, scale and framing devices alter meaning in pictorial systems. Somatic responses, classification networks and image banks are explored as they relate to intersections in visual art and the biological sciences.

Concepts of Nature - the first volume of the project Naturally Hypernatural - argues that contemporary art is predominantly concerned with concepts of nature regarding the depth of their implications in order to reveal and analyze their internal structure.

Hypernatual Landscapes in the Anthropocene is a selection of texts that examine the mutable concept of landscape in the humanities and arts since the Modern period. The same Anthropocentric hubris that impacted those concepts has precipitated an unprecedented geological epoch with an uncertain future.

The texts in this trans-disciplinary volume explore embodiment of sense, that is, the opening of meaning in sensible configurations. The authors, among them both scholars and artists, address the "medial" structures - at once aesthetic, bodily and technical - that condition our access to whatever makes sense to us.

Embodied Fantasies: From Awe to Artifice is a compilation of twenty-one essays on the subject of fantasy as it relates to art history, philosophy and the visual arts.

This volume chronicles the visual art and writings of pioneering video artist Frank Gillette. Revisiting his work from the late '60's and '70's to his current practice, this book traces Gillette's incorporation of the natural world into new media technologies.