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A Touch of Code

Interactive Installations and Experiences

Today’s designers are creating compelling atmospheres and interactive experiences by merging hardware and software with architecture and design. This book is a collection of this innovative work produced where virtual realms meet the real world and where dataflow confronts the human senses. It presents an international spectrum of interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of laboratory, trade show, and urban space that play with the new frontiers of perception, interaction, and staging created by current technology. The work reveals how technology is fundamentally changing and expanding strategies for the targeted use of architecture, art, communication, and design for the future.

R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, V. Hanschke

Preface by Joachim Sauter

GESTALTEN (April 2011)

24 x 28 cm, 256 pages, full cover, hardcover

Art & Agenda

Political Art and Activism

This book explores the current interrelationship between art, activism, and politics. It presents new visual concepts and commentaries that are being used to represent and communicate emotionally charged topics, thereby bringing them onto local political and social agendas in a way far more powerful than words alone. It looks at how art is not only reflecting and setting agendas, but also how it is influencing political reaction. Consequently, Art & Agenda is not only a perceptive documentation of current urban interventions, installations, performances, sculptures, and paintings by more than 100 young and established artists, but also points to future forms of political discourse.

R. Klanten, M. Hübner, A. Bieber, P. Alonzo, G. Jansen

Texts by Pedro Alonzo, Alain Bieber, Silke Krohn

GESTALTEN (April 2011)

24 x 30 cm, 288 pages, full color, hardcover

Roger Gastman's

Tools of Criminal Mischief

Roger Gastman has created more books on graffiti culture than anyone. He's edited and published countless artist monographs and anthologies and even served as Consulting Producer for the film documentary "Exit Through The Gift Shop".

For Tools of Criminal Mischief, Mr. Gastman has trawled his personal archive to present the quirky stories and visual oddities that inspire him personally; from the story of infamous Baltimore Graffiti Writer SHAKEN, to 1940's hobo train art, '70s gang graffiti, photos of graffiti writers' personal aerosol arsenals, spray paint collectibles, ephemera and more.

In the author's own words - " The danger, history, process, spray cans, magic markers, and the local styles are just a few parts of graffiti that I fixate on. Different aspects interest me at different times, but what always continues to excite me is the oddity - especially pedestrian graffiti and the strange pop-culture references".

112 pages

9" x 11 3/4"

Hardbound

265 color illustrations

Limited to 1500 Copies worldwide