Super Vision

New technology enables super vision—both superhuman visual powers and actual supervision by surveillance. In Super Vision, the catalogue that accompanied the 2006 inaugural exhibit at the new Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, a broad selection of important works in a variety of media expresses both the ecstatic and the threatening aspects of vision and reveals visual experience as a source of both pleasure and fear.

These works reflect the digital era's profound shift in the nature of visuality itself—as computer graphics and imaging, digitization, and virtuality have transformed both the nature of representation and our relationship to it. Among the leading contemporary artists exploring the changing nature of contemporary visual experience in Super Vision are Bridget Riley, Anish Kapoor, and Gabriel Orozco, with works that bend, twist, and dissolve space, leaving us unsure of the boundaries between inside and outside, surface and depth, self and others. Other works by artists including Jeff Koons, Julie Mehretu, and Andreas Gursky, express aspects of virtuality—some explicitly, some more subtly—and explore the changes in the way we see and understand two-dimensional images. Vision in the twenty-first century is potentially everywhere, all the time; there is no way to escape it. Works by Sigmar Polke, Yoko Ono, Tony Oursler, Thomas Ruff, and others respond in complex ways to this disembodied and penetrating quality of vision. The many color images in Super Vision are accompanied by essays by exhibition curator Nicholas Baume, art historian David Joselit, and media theorist McKenzie Wark.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2006, 8 x 10 inches, 196 pp, color images
Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-262-02609-3
code: mit supv B-4
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Assemblage 12

Includes essays and correspondence between French philosopher Jacques Derrida and deconstructivist architect Peter Eisenman, as well as essay ""Between the Lines: Extension to the Berlin Museum, with the Jewish Museum"" by Daniel Libeskind.

DESIGN
PB, 114 pp., illus.
1990, ISSN 0889-3012
code: mit as12 F-7

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Assemblage 34

This issue includes the essay ""Modern Architecture and the Ideology of Influence"" by Paula Young Lee and ""Architecture's Outside"" by Juan N. Baldeweg.

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PB, 124 pp., illus.
1997
code: mit as34 A-5

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DESIGN
94 pp., illus.
1998
code: mit as36 F-7

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[Spring 1995, PB, 113 pgs., b&w illus.] This issue includes the essay ?íRemembering/ Forgetting,?ì by Helke Sander, as well as essays by Annette Michelson, Gertrud Koch and Atina Grossmann.
code: mit oct72

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[Winter 1997, PB, 142 pgs., b&w illus.] Contains essays ?íRereading Debord, Rereading the Situationists?ì by Thomas F. McDonough and ?íLefebvre on the Situationists: An Interview?ì by Kristin Ross. Also includes essays by T.J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith.
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CRITICISM
PB, 125 pp., b&w illus.
1997
code: mit oct82

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[MIT Press, ISSN 0162-2870] At the forefront of contemporary arts criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture and literature. Original, innovative and provocative, each issue presents the best, most current texts by and about today's artistic, intellectual and critical vanguard.
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At the forefront of contemporary arts criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature. Examining relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, October addresses a broad range of readers. Original, innovative, provocative, each issue presents the best, most current texts by and about today's artistic, intellectual and critical vanguard. Issue 108 features articles by Yve-Alain Bois, Mark Godfrey, Rachel E. Perry, Hannah Feldman, Anson Rabinbach, and Annette Michelson.

ART/THEORY/CRITICISM
2004, 7 x 9 inches, 115 pp, 57 b&w images
Softcover, ISBN 0262752581
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At the forefront of contemporary arts criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature. Examining relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, October addresses a broad range of readers. Original, innovative, provocative, each issue presents the best, most current texts by and about today's artistic, intellectual and critical vanguard. Issue 107 features essays by Sebastian Zeidler, Charles W. Haxthausen, Rainer Rumold, Laurie Monahan, and Carl Einstein.

ART/THEORY/CRITICISM
2004, 7 x 9 inches, 176 pp, 13 b&w images
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Grey Room brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns. Issue 15 features articles by Samuel Weber, Beatriz Colomina, Mark Campbell, Catherine Ingraham and Catherine Liu.

CONTEMPORARY ART/ARCHITECTURE/THEORY
2004, 6 x 9 inches, 118 pp, 49 b&w images
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CONTEMPORTARY ART/ARCHITECTURE/THEORY
2004, 6 x 9 inches, 115 pp, 31 b&w images
Softcover, ISBN1526-3819, ISBN-13: 026275533
code: mit gr14 G-4