Systems and Scenarios covers around 20 years of artist and writer Yvette Brackman's works and projects, which often combine crafted elements and time-based media to create narratives and engage audiences in issues of common responsibility and social relations. The book is organized around five interviews by Helene Lundbye Petersen, conducted in New York in the Fall of 2011.

Gathering works by Cory Arcangel, Alex Bag & Patterson Beckwith, Judith Bernstein, Vittorio Brodmann, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Simon Denny, Harun Farocki, Tabor Robak and many others, this publication brings together artists who use pop-culture formats and imagery usually addressed to children or teenagers. This adoption of such motifs should not be seen merely as a reference to (or appropriation of) popular culture: rather, it becomes an implicit (or explicit) critique of a kind of capitalist production of consumer worlds that have also infiltrated the field of art. These playful children's or...