Publications: 2006 to 2010

Matthew Day Jackson:  The Immeasurable Distance

2009, MIT List Visual Arts Center and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

The Immeasurable Distance is a solo exhibition that includes work based on Matthew Day Jackson’s residency at MIT. His research and experiences at MIT are manifested in sculptures, paintings, objects, videos, photos, and books. Playing with themes as large as technology, nature, and God, Jackson analyzes and comments on today’s culture and the influence scientific discoveries have had on our decision-making as a society. This exhibition catalogue features essays by curator Bill Arning, science and technology curator of the MIT Museum, Deborah Douglas, author and MIT professor David Mindell, systems administrator for the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Tom Morton, and a comic strip by illustrator David Tompkins.

$20

ISBN: 978-1933619217
99 pages, color

Melanie Smith: Spiral City & Other Vicarious Pleasures

2006, A&R Press

English-born Melanie Smith has lived and worked in Mexico City for nearly two decades. Her work reflects the social, economic, and aesthetic patterns of the city and how these patterns translate to an artistic form. Spiral City & Other Vicarious Pleasures features paintings, photography, and video works by Melanie Smith as well as collaborations with other artists. Smith uses colors, textures, materials, and found objects from the urban environment in examining the complex and chaotic visual elements that compose the megalopolis that is Mexico City. This exhibition catalogue features text by curator Cuauhtemoc Medina, as well as contributions by Essex University art history professor Dawn Ades, author and Royal College of Art professor David Batchelor, and Mexican artist Eduardo Abaroa.

$40

ISBN: 978-968-9056-07-2
208 pages, color

Davis, Cherubini: in Contention

2009, MIT List Visual Arts Center

Davis, Cherubini: in Contention focuses on the relationship that exists in artistic collaboration. Nicole Cherubini and Taylor Davis, both established artists, come together to create and share authorship of single sculptures. This exhibition catalogue documents their unique creative process and the dialogue that exists between these two artists’ understanding their own work when compared to the other’s efforts. This catalogue features an essay by curator Bill Arning and a preface by List Center director Jane Farver.

$15
ISBN: 978-0-938437-71-2
43 pages, color

Adel Abdessemed: Situation and Practice

2008, MIT List Visual Arts Center

Adel Abdessemed: Situation and Practice features a collection of Abdessemed’s previous street “acts” as well as several works created specifically for this exhibition. Abdessemed works in video, animation, performance, and installation, taking on topics such as religion, sexuality, and more recently, global violence. While many consider his pieces performative, Abdessemed refers to his work simply as “acts” acknowledging the political implications of the term. This exhibition catalogue includes essays by List Visual Arts Center director Jane Farver; professor, author, and editor Tom McDonough; art critic, columnist, teacher, and curator Pier Luigi Tazzi; and an interview with MIT professor of Linguistics (Emeritus) Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Noam Chomsky, conducted by Adel Abdessemed.

$40
ISBN: 978-0-938437-70-4
128 pages, color photos and illustration

Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space

Filmmaker and video artist Chantal Akerman in Moving Through Time and Space, presents five pieces that underscore her ability to blur the line between what we consider to be factual and what we consider to be fantasy. Organized in collaboration with the Blaffer Gallery, the Miami Art Museum, and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the exhibition features Akerman's  first museum installation De l’autre côté (From the Other Side) and her most recent installation, Les Femmes d’Anvers en Novembre (Women of Antwerp in November). This exhibition catalogue includes essays by MIT List Visual Arts Center curator Bill Arning; the Miami Art Museum executive director and chief curator Rina Carvajal; writer, editor, and independent curator Klaus Ottmann; the Blaffer Gallery director Claudia Schmuckli; and director of the Parrish Art Museum, Terrie Sultan.

$25
ISBN: 978-0-9778028-5-2
72 pages, color

David Claerbout: The Shape of Time
2008, Published by JRPRingier

The video artist David Claerbout explores time as a material through the intersection of still and moving images, challenging traditional practices by using as his unit of currency the pixel rather than the shot. Some of his works evolve from found photographs that he converts to digital images and then merges with moving footage in order to introduce time; in other works, he uses digital video footage of the changing of natural light over time to investigate what time is. This exhibition catalogue documents Claerbout’s work in great detail, from planning drawings and photographs through photographs of the works in installation. It also includes an interview of the artist by Christine Van Assche, New Media Curator at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, as well as writings by Dirk Snauwaert, Françoise Parfait, and Raymond Bellour, and a biography and a bibliography.

$40
ISBN 978-3-905829-38-9
160 pages, color and b/w illustrations

Sounding the Subject/Video Trajectories:

Selections from the Pamela and Richard

Kramlich Collection and the New Art Trust

2007, MIT List Visual Arts Center

Sounding the Subject/Video Trajectories features works drawn from the collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and the New Art Trust. Sounding the Subject considers the use of sound, the human voice, and theatrical performances by artists Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Stan Douglas, David Hammons, Nam June Paik, and Pipilotti Rist. This exhibition was organized by guest curators Daniel Birnbaum, Rector of the Städelschule Art Academy and Director of the Portikus Gallery in Frankfurt–am-Main, Germany, and Mechtild Widrich, Ph.D. candidate, MIT’s History, Theory, and Criticism program.

The exhibition's theme continues in a library-format exhibition, Video Trajectories, that features works by artists that were created from the 1960s to the early 2000s. Video Trajectories was organized by guest curator Caroline A. Jones, MIT Professor, MIT's History, Theory, and Criticism program. Video Trajectories presents time-based media works by Marina Abramovic/Ulay, Vito Acconci, Doug Aitkin, Allora & Calzadilla, John Baldessari, Dara Birnbaum, Dan Graham, Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley, Mariko Mori, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Pipilotti Rist, Richard Serra and Carlotta Fay Schoolman, Bill Viola, and Jane and Louise Wilson. This 80-page catalogue publication features essays by curators Daniel Birnbaum, Mechtild Widrich, and Caroline A. Jones, and introductions by Pamela and Richard Kramlich and List Center Director Jane Farver.

$25

Cameron Jamie Exhibition Catalogue

$35

Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art

$30

9 Evenings Reconsidered:
Art, Theatre, and Engineering, 1966

$25

America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler

$40