The publication Ars Telefonica 2008 accompanies the homonym project, organized by Centre for Visual Introspection during September 23rd -27th 2008 in Bucharest. The book gathers a series of critical texts by a diverse group of art and architectural theorists, philosophers, critically engaged in debating the current conditions of social and cultural practice in Romanian public sphere. The body of texts introduces a glossary of themes, sub-themes and concepts which relate to the questions launched by the project and opens, as well, multiple directions of interpretation regarding the passive/ active relationship between cultural producer and audience. The publication contains images, short descriptions of the artistic projects and of the lectures taken place within the event's framework, as well as an audio CD which documents the works of studioBASAR, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Jiri Skala, Luca Frei, Iratxe Jaio & Klass van Gorkum, Dorte Meyer, Bernhard Schreiner, Nasan Tur, son:DA.
