Very glad to welcome Filipa Ramos at After 8, to celebrate the publication of her latest book, The Artist as Ecologist, and also of The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish, coedited by Ramos and Lucia Pietroiusti.

In The Artist as Ecologist (Lund Humphries, 2025)., Filipa Ramos looks at pioneering approaches to ecology by key contemporary artists from different generations and cultural backgrounds working in different art media. The author also considers the balance between ecology as theme and ecology as practice, underscoring the imperative for both artists and art institutions to adopt responsible environmental positions in their practice...
More info here.

An enquiry into non-human, human and artificial minds, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (Hatje Cantz/Serpentine, 2025) is an invitation to rethink our place on this planet. This edited collection brings together interventions by 100 experts and creative practitioners across the humanities, art and science to investigate animal, plant and fungal intelligence, consciousness and affects, machine sentience and interspecies communication. More info there.