2025 – Punctum, Zeit setzen (Inscribing Time)
Writing Time, Reading History
An essay by Manuel Abendroth tracing the unwritten lineage of artistic thought from Almir Mavignier to Hanne Darboven and LAb[au]. (English, German, French)

 

2022 – From Visual and Concrete to Algorithmic and Intelligent Poetry 

Curatorial research paper (French, English)

Written in preparation for the curated group exhibition P,OE?!e 
TOPO?, exhibition platform, Brussels, Belgium

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2021 – Le langage de l'image et l'image du langage

Curatorial research paper (French, English)

Written in preparation for the exhibition project
Remplacement et Ekphrasis (unrealised)

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2019 – Five Conceptual Statements

Aesthetics of Perception (French, English)

The 7 units of measurement (French, English)

True: False (French, English)
Chance: Error (French, English)

Transcoding (French, English)

Written for the monographic exhibition catalogue: if, then else

Published by Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Lux.

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2018  – From Analogies to Transcoding 

Curatorial research paper (French, English)

Written in preparation for the curated group exhibition Transcoding.

Société, exhibition platform, Brussels, Belgium

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2015 – The Digital Concrete
Essay for the exhibition catalogue rouge, vert, bleu... (French, English)

CdA, Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-Bains, France

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2013 – From Sense to Sense

Foundational conceptual statement (French, English)

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2010 – Licht und Algorithmus 

Essay on LAb[au]'s conception of light (German, English)
Written for the book Mediatecture by Christoph Kronhagel

Springer Wien Verlag, Austria

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2010 – MetaArt: MetaDeSIGN, the Art of Systems 
Foundational text introducing LAb[au]'s artistic framework

Written for the monograph MetaDeSIGN LAb[au] (French, English)

Edited by Les Presses du Réel, France
 

2002 – MetaDeSIGN, de l'analogie aux systèmes programmatiques 
Theoretical essay (French, English)

Published in Éc/Arts #3, French art magazine, France

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2001 – Infotectures

Collection of essays (French, English, Dutch)

Published in the book L'anthropologie de la société digitale

by Salvino Salvaggio, Belgium

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2000 – Architextures : Hypertextures 

Essay (French, English)

Published in the French art journal Parpaings, France​

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1999 – The Medium Is the Message: The City as a Hypertext  

Essay (French, English)

Published in Éc/Arts #2, French art magazine, France

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1998 – Pop into ...

Conceptual statement (French, English)

Published in the exhibition catalogue Transarchitecture 02/03

Aedes Edition, Berlin, Germany​​​

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