Books
Digital Occultism
Tracing fictions from early internet cultures to contemporary platforms, this book examines how they produce material realities, how politics operate as psychological warfare, and how algorithmic feedback engineers desire.
Kick Drum Circuit Design Guide
This illustrated guide walks you through designing an analog kick drum circuit from scratch – starting with a simple five-component bridged-t oscillator and building up to a fully featured percussion voice.
Designing Questions
Designing Questions introduces an alternative design pedagogy. At its core are speculative practices, world-building, material engagement, and storytelling, equipping students and practitioners to address urgent questions of our time.
Maintenance of Everything
Maintenance of Everything is an in-depth exploration of maintenance—and a powerful argument for its civilizational importance.
Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis
This open access collection argues that climate breakdown represents an irreducibly incomputable problem that cannot be resolved through algorithmic optimization or cybernetic planetary management.
BiblioTech – ReReading the Post-digital Library
BiblioTech explores the changing role of the library, reading, writing, and publishing in a post-digital age.
Exhibiting for Multiple Senses – Art and Curating for Sensory-Diverse Bodies
Exhibiting for Multiple Senses looks into artistic and curatorial research practices that emphasize the multisensory character of the human body in the encounter with artworks.
Are You a Software Update?
Are You a Software Update? brings together seven authors to examine the intensifying form of totalitarianism grounded in the quiet background logic of contemporary technology.
Collapsed Mythologies – A Geofinancial Atlas
This book explores the mythological slang of finance—from hectocorns to dark pools. Benjaminsen and Casey reveal how these "supernatural" fictions aren't just colorful talk, but forces that violently shape our real-world ecology.
We the Bacteria – Notes Toward Biotic Architecture
Rethinking architecture through the lens of microbes, arguing bacteria are the true builders. This book traces 10,000 years of human-microbe entanglements to challenge the sterile, antibiotic philosophy of modern design.
45 Symbols – Clay to Code
45 Symbols–Clay to Code examines how emerging artists and designers develop systematic approaches to a visual language.
Slow Technology Reader
Slow Technology Reader gathers contributions from diverse disciplinary fields and knowledge traditions to consider technology through a ‘Slow’ lens.
The illusion of Thinking
The illusion of Thinking – a publication on artistic research and the overlooked implications of artificial intelligence and its assumed capacity to think and reason.
Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices
Two artistic field studies provide the starting point for a dialogical reflection on the entanglement of diverse temporalities in body-related, datafied, and experiential practices.
Reverse Contradictionary – Dictionary of New Worlds
Reverse Contradictionary gathers confrontational neologisms, critiquing the predatory, algorithmic logic of AI, as LLMs absorb humanity’s cultural output and reshape it through statistical mediocrity.
Cybernetic Serendipity – The Computer and the Arts
The reprint of the classic publication from the groundbreaking and highly influential 1968 London ICA exhibition is now available.
The Responsible Object
The Responsible Object presents a selected history of socially committed design strategies within the Western design tradition of roughly the last 150 years, from William Morris to Victor Papanek, and from Vkhutemas to FabLab.
A Non-History of Plants
The book questions human projections and representations of the vegetal world, bringing to light the subjectivity, intelligence, and expressive abilities of plants. Tracing a visual history of plants, linking art, technology, and science, through ...
In the Spaces Between – Arts at CERN
The first publication dedicated to Arts at CERN reflects on the last decade of dialogue between art and science at the Laboratory.
Platform Brutality – Closing Down Internet Toxicity
From techno-feudalism debate, radical data critique, offline romanticism to questioning how to bring back social networks and design a new balance between analogue and digital, Platform Brutality offers critical analyses but also alternatives to t...
MIMIZU – qubibi
This 600-page book documents qubibi's rare practice, featuring 90 hand-bound copies with four unique cover designs and a custom red sleeve, plus commentary by Mimi Nguyen and Casey Reas.
Conspiratorial Design – Information design for the bigger picture
This book argues that design and conspiracy theories, often seen as opposites, actually mirror each other. They share similar goals and use comparable methods of representation.
Forty-Four Esolangs – The Art of Esoteric Code
Forty-Four Esolangs is a collection of Daniel Temkin's many approaches to esolangs—esoteric programming languages—showcasing the form’s limitless artistic potential.
Pixel Rugs – Travess Smalley
Combining early pixel-art aesthetics, glitch, and the optical warp, Travess Smalley builds “rugs” from thousands of coloured pixels. The book follows the evolution of the project through studio sketches, code snippets, and guest essays.
Machine Decision is Not Final – China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence
Spanning borders between different worlds, histories, futures, and foundational models, Machine Decision is Not Final is a toolbox for constructing more global imaginaries for the future of AI.
CodeCrafted – Generative Design in Branding
CodeCrafted provides a window into the future of branding, where code and creativity merge to build dynamic identities. Features generative design work by the likes of DIA, Studio Dumber_DEPT®, LAVA, Patrik Hübner and Tim Rodenbröker.
Output – An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text 1953–2023
An anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created long before ChatGPT.
Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat – Hito Steyerl
Medium Hot is a collection of scintillating meditations on the limits of art and technology: the essential handbook for the present conjuncture. The pieces here probe the manufacture and distribution of images in the age of AI and climate change.