Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A practical how-to guide for being, becoming or just appearing highly intelligent. Discover how what you eat, not thinking and running around can make you smarter. This book contains top tips and tricks to making your brain more effective, alongside true-lif tales about the greatest minds of all time. Learn how to sleep yourself clever, why not to worry about IQ tests, and how your journey to school can help you remember nearly everything. If reading really can make you more intelligent, this might be the only bok you need.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Fast forward--a plea for de-acceleration (p. 432)
• Preface (p. 433)
• The Allusive Eye. Illusion, Anti-Illusion, Allusion (p. 434)
• Visual scenarios--from self-observation to media reflection on an increasingly fragmented society Notes on the historical development of video (p. 435)
• Life is a pale imitation of the VCR (p. 439)
• A Little House Tour Through the Goetz Collection On winding paths ... from Aberdeen to Zaandam (p. 446)
• Katalog / catalogue
• Texte von / texts
• Franz Ackermann (p. 450)
• Eija-Liisa Ahtila (p. 450)
• Doug Aitken (p. 451)
• Chantal Akerman (p. 452)
• Francis Alys (p. 453)
• Emmanuelle Antille (p. 454)
• Nobuyoshi Araki (p. 517)
• Assume Vivid Astro Focus (p. 455)
• Kutlug Ataman (p. 456)
• Matthew Barney (p. 457)
• Andrea Bowers (p. 460)
• Christoph Brech (p. 461)
• Olaf Breuning (p. 461)
• Janet Cardiff (p. 462)
• Janet Cardiff/George Bures Miller (p. 462)
• David Claerbout (p. 464)
• Pierre Coulibeuf (p. 466)
• Tacita Dean (p. 466)
• Thomas Demand (p. 466)
• Rineke Dijkstra (p. 467)
• Willie Doherty (p. 469)
• Cheryl Donegan (p. 517)
• Stan Douglas (p. 469)
• Tracey Emin (p. 470)
• Omer Fast (p. 471)
• Peter Fischli/David Weiss (p. 472)
• Douglas Gordon (p. 474)
• Rodney Graham (p. 476)
• Asta Groting (p. 477)
• Mona Hatoum (p. 478)
• Mathilde ter Heijne (p. 478)
• Gary Hill (p. 479)
• Jonathan Horowitz (p. 480)
• Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler (p. 481)
• Pierre Huyghe (p. 482)
• Isaac Julien (p. 482)
• Mike Kelley (p. 518)
• Rachel Khedoori (p. 483)
• Jurgen Klauke (p. 519)
• Yayoi Kusama (p. 484)
• Annika Larsson (p. 485)
• Mark Leckey (p. 486)
• Sharon Lockhart (p. 487)
• Fabian Marcaccio (p. 520)
• Christian Marclay (p. 520)
• Matthew McCaslin (p. 488)
• Steve McQueen (p. 489)
• Bjorn Melhus (p. 489)
• Aernout Mik (p. 491)
• Tracey Moffatt (p. 520)
• Sarah Morris (p. 491)
• Matthias Muller (p. 492)
• Saskia Olde Wolbers (p. 492)
• Jacco Olivier (p. 493)
• Gabriel Orozco (p. 494)
• Ulrike Ottinger (p. 495)
• Tony Oursler (p. 495)
• Luca Pancrazzi (p. 497)
• Raymond Pettibon (p. 520)
• Paul Pfeiffer (p. 497)
• Linda Post (p. 498)
• Jeroen de Rijke/Willem de Rooij (p. 499)
• Pipilotti Rist (p. 500)
• Liisa Roberts (p. 501)
• Anri Sala (p. 501)
• Ann-Sofi Siden (p. 503)
• Santiago Sierra (p. 504)
• Beat Streuli (p. 504)
• Catherine Sullivan (p. 505)
• Sam Taylor-Wood (p. 506)
• Diana Thater (p. 508)
• Wolfgang Tillmans (p. 509)
• Rosemarie Trockel (p. 510)
• Bill Viola (p. 521)
• Gillian Wearing (p. 513)
• T.J. Wilcox (p. 515)
• Christopher Williams (p. 516)
• Karen Yasinsky (p. 516)
• Unlimitierte Auflagen / unlimited editions
• Englische Ubersetzungen / English translations
• Liste der ausgestellten Werke / exhibition checklist
• Autoren- und Ubersetzerverzeichnis / list of authors and translators
• Erlauterungen und Abkurzungsverzeichnis / explanations and list of short cuts
• Fotonachweis / illustration credits
• Impressum / imprint