7.5 × 9 inches, 144 pages, hardcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-93-4

Design by Ben Denzer

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In the early 1990s, when personal computing was young and artificial intelligence was not yet in the popular imagination, artist Janet Zweig created something extraordinary and prescient: sculptures that married early computers, simple algorithms, and dot-matrix printers with mechanical parts to auto-generate streams of poetic text that moved objects.

Essays by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Jena Osman, and Johanna Drucker reveal how Zweig's witty contraptions were an early premonition of our current technological reality: an atmosphere of disinformation, fake news, and digital hallucinations. As Osman writes: “AI robs us of our imaginative faculty. Zweig’s sculptures, by contrast, gave us what we still very much need: opportunities for explorative play, the recognition of our own thought processes…and the potential to see the world as a site for creative collaboration.”

Richly illustrated, Recursive Apologies: Janet Zweig’s Text Generating Sculpture presents these works alongside the sources that inspired them. With a recursive design by Ben Denzer that mirrors the very concepts it explores, the book offers both a visual archive and a reflection on our ongoing relationship with thinking machines.

8.75 × 11.75 inches, 152 pages, hardcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-94-1

Design by Valentijn Goethals
Co-Published by Inventory Press, Kunsthal Gent, and Roma Publications

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In 2023, American artist Ben Thorp Brown opened Cura’s Garden, a long-term, immersive exhibition set in the medieval garden of Kunsthal Gent, a former Carmelite monastery. Expanding on the Roman myth of Cura, the project brings together a theatrical assortment of trees and other flora, fog, sculpture, and sound—elements that cohere into a dense, indeterminate sensorial experience. This richly illustrated volume, organized around the seasons, features vivid documentation across two years of the garden’s young life alongside linocut botanical prints by the artist’s mother, Cary Thorp Brown.

New essays by Laura McLean-Ferris, Laurie Cluitmans, Robert Wiesenberger explore the conceptual, formal, art historical, and affective valences of Cura’s Garden, and a roundtable conversation between Brown and Laura Herman, Jan Minne, and Valentijn Goethals considers the history and development of the project, from the artist’s 2019 film Cura, a precursor to the garden, through present concerns around the maintenance and unfolding nature of this site-specific work.

9.25 × 12.8 inches, 96 pages, hardcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-84-2

Design by Info and Updates
Co-published by Inventory Press, Speed Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, & Asia Society Texas

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Outerworlds is the first monograph to trace the life and career of Iraq-born, Kentucky-based artist Vian Sora. Merging global art traditions, her paintings engage themes of war, exile, survival, and renewal through richly textured, emotionally charged compositions. Surveying a decade of artistic production, this volume follows Sora’s path from Baghdad to the American South, illuminating a practice shaped by both personal and geopolitical upheaval. Moving seamlessly between abstraction and figuration, her paintings draw on ancient iconography and lived experience to explore the layered complexities of identity. Sora’s work is at once intimate and political—a testament to transformation and resilience.

7.5 × 10.75 inches, 104 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-97-2

Published by Inventory Press & The Huntington 
Design by IN-FO.CO

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British artist and writer Edmund de Waal (b. 1964) is known for the his installations of exquisite porcelain vessels in historic spaces and his engagement with the potential of ceramics. At The Huntington, de Waal’s interventions and artworks explore the movement of ideas, people, and objects—what Chinese poet Bei Dao calls the “eight directions of the wind.” Three interactive and contemplative spaces in the Chinese and Japanese Gardens—on porcelain and on shadow—and the Art Gallery—on sanctuary—encourage visitors to consider the implications of migration and exile, the material history of porcelain, and the power of sanctuary, resulting in fresh perspectives and new experiences of The Huntington’s collections.

Fully illustrated, the catalogue also includes an in-depth conversation between de Waal and cultural historian Josh Kun about the project’s connection to Los Angeles’s mix of cultures and the transmission of ideas. A selection of poems on exile that speaks to global histories of migration completes this thought-provoking tour through The Huntington’s iconic spaces.

9.75 × 11.75 inches, 288 pages, hardcover

ISBN 978-1-970449-00-6

Design by Content Object
Published by Inventory Press & Blaffer Art Museum

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Surveying photographic, video, and audio works, participatory and multi-media installations, early graphic pieces, and textual interventions, this catalogue—published to accompany Susan Silton's first major survey exhibition—highlights a vital figure in West Coast conceptual, feminist, and queer genealogies of art and design. The catalogue takes its title from Adrienne Rich's 1973 poem Diving into the Wreck. Rich (1929–2012) was a poet and essayist central to feminist and lesbian literary movements. Diving into the Wreck reveals Silton's layered practice, testing the possibilities and limits of text, vision, perception, and participation in social and political becoming.

Edited by Andy Campbell, the catalogue features newly commissioned art historical essays and new and reprinted literary texts by contributors including Adrienne Rich, Ramón García, Amelia Jones, Natilee Harren, Dana Johnson, Susanna Phillips Newbury, Dodie Bellamy, David Evans Frantz, Mady Schutzman, and Karen Moss. Together, these texts form a critical counterpart to the artist's corpus, asking readers to examine the "wreck" of their own internal and external worlds in the hopes that better paths might be imagined for a collective future.

Silton's work illustrates that the message is never settled; rather, it twists and mutates.

6.75 × 9.5 inches, 608 pages
ISBN 978-1-941753-51-4

Design by Laura Coombs

“This invaluable research tool will hugely expand, update, and perhaps even revolutionize the feminist discourse. It might even be considered a work of conceptual art in itself."
—Lucy R. Lippard, author of Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972

“This book served as my doorway to cyberfeminism and I now see what an energetic continent awaits me. Anywhere I stepped it burned my hair off, it’s that brilliantly intense."
—Kevin Kelly, founding editor Wired magazine

In Cyberfeminism Index, hackers, scholars, artists, and activists of all regions, races and sexual orientations consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technology. When learning about internet history, we are taught to focus on engineering, the military-industrial complex, and the grandfathers who created the architecture and protocol, but the internet is not only a network of cables, servers, and computers. It is an environment that shapes and is shaped by its inhabitants and their use.

The creation and use of the Cyberfeminism Index is a social and political act. It takes the name cyberfeminism as an umbrella, complicates it, and pushes it into plain sight. Edited by designer, professor, and researcher Mindy Seu, it includes more than 700 short entries of radical techno-critical activism in a variety of media, including excerpts from academic articles and scholarly texts; descriptions of hackerspaces, digital rights activist groups, and bio-hacktivism; and depictions of feminist net art and new media art.

Both a vital introduction for laypeople and a robust resource guide for educators, Cyberfeminism Index—an anti-canon, of sorts—celebrates the multiplicity of practices that fall under this imperfect categorization and makes visible cyberfeminism’s long-ignored origins and its expansive legacy.

“You can use it as a reference, follow a thread, or just access it at random and it delivers wit and wisdom from over three decades of one of the most politically and intellectually challenging movements of our era. What happens between sexed flesh and gendered tech? More than ever we all need to know."
—McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker Manifesto

“This is an archive perfectly suited to its material: at ease with impermanence, richly appreciative of contradiction, and expansive in scope. Mindy Seu and her cohort of collaborators celebrate the polyrhythmic chorus of voices that have made cyberfeminist thought so delightfully difficult to define—and invite new, kaleidoscopic reinterpretations of our last three decades of life online."
—Claire L. Evans, author of Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

“The Cyberfeminism Index celebrates, troubles, and critiques the histories and futures of struggle against networked patriarchy—from its first libidinous eruptions to tenacious tactical disruptions and mutations. For theorists and hegemony hackers alike the Index offers an inspirational and educational resource for the urgent work of glitching and decolonizing intersectional internets now."
—Ruth Catlow, founder of Furtherfield