Mapping the Void is a series of urban performances by Pessi Parviainen and Christophe Bruno. The performances study the relations between different physical places and the mapping of the global mediascape as we know it. [Link]

Global index of the decay of the aura of language, the Dadameter aims at measuring our distance to Dada. It was inspired by the work of the french writer Raymond Roussel.

The project is a satire about the recent transmutation of language into a global market ruled by Google et al. and uses the most up-to-date technologies of control to draw cartographies of language at large scale.

It was co-produced by the Rencontres Paris-Berlin-Madrid 2008 for contemporary art and new cinema. Concept: Christophe Bruno - programming: Valeriu Lacatusu

Oct. 6 2007: internet users worldwide took part in the Nuit Blanche organized by the Paris local council. Second Night was displayed both on Second Life and at Hôtel d’Albret, Paris.

Works by Andreas Angelidakis, Christophe Bruno, David Guez, Agnès de Cayeux, Claude Closky, Alain Della Negra, Kaori Kinoshita, Yona Friedman, Valéry Grancher, Etienne Joubert, Miltos Manetas, Second Front. Curated by Daniele Balit and Christophe Bruno.

http://nbsl.blogspot.com/

Logo.Hallucination deals with the question of privatization of the glance in relation to collective hallucination: an image recognition software based on neural networks, continuously monitors the images circulating on the Web looking for hidden logos, and sends cease & desist mails whenever a copyright violation is detected.

The project wad conceived for the Rencontres Paris-Berlin 2006 and has received a grant from the DICREAM (Aide à la production - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication - CNC). Concept: Christophe Bruno - programming: Valeriu Lacatusu

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“(In)human Sciences” was made for the exhibition Neterotopia, curated by Daniele Balit and Pierre Mertens. During March 2006, my work was displayed in the advertising space of the website of the french newspaper Libération. The exhibition was also shown at physical spaces: Palais de Tokyo (Paris), NICC (Antwerp) and Careof (Milan).

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A human being embodies
the World Wide Web

Human Browser is a series of Wi-Fi performances based on a Google Hack, where the usual technological interface is replaced with the oldest interface we know: the human being.

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“You can only command language
by obeying it”
(G. Perec & M.Bénabou, P.A.L.F. project, OuLiPo 1964)

Dreamlogs are an idea association engine. They propose another way to surf on the Internet, by disentangling the discourses that have interlaced over time.

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Blood For Sale is a Wi-Fi performance given at the ReJoyce Festival celebrating Bloomsday 100, Dublin - June 12-17, 2004

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Imagine that the history of the world was turned upside-down and that the historical characters who left their mark in our schoolbooks, were reincarnated as… artists. What works of art would they produce?

After the the guerilla-marketing campaign for WiFi-SM was launched at the Tirana Bienniale of Contemporary Art in 2003, the real product was shown for the first time at galerie Sollertis in January 2006: the WiFi-SM patch is now for real Read more…

In December 2002, I’ve sown a non-existing word on the Web.

GogolChat is a collaborative work by Jimpunk and myself.

The Web is a global text. The hypothetical character, whose speech tends towards this global text, the sum of all speeches of mankind, is called Gogol.

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B-Fish was produced for the exhibition Banner Art Collective

The Google Adwords Happening: how a global happening on Google unveiled the Generalized Semantic Capitalism.

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Life is an attempt to match the linearity of one’s life with the infinite dimensionality of the space of discourse. Here, Google is used as a non-local structure.

Selfportrait is at the same time a Google hack and a hack of the piece by Valéry Grancher, selfportrait, which was the starting point of the Search Art project.

Non-weddings was inspired by a drawing by Jacques Lacan in “L’instance de la lettre dans l’inconscient”, as I realized that the Internet search engines had some similarities with this presentation (cf Google Image).

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Fascinum is a Yahoo Hack. It shows in real-time the news pictures the most viewed (ranked from 1 to 10) on different national Yahoo portals. The viewer surfs at the top of the infotainment wave and experiments in a panoptic view the paradoxes of the unique thought.

Fascinum has won the @ARCO new media award 2007 at ARCO Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid

Installation n°1 on 5 is property of the Beep Collection. 

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My first net.art piece, Epiphanies is a conceptual Google Hack inspired by James Joyce’s definition of the epiphany. It is considered as one of the very first pieces of “Google Art”.

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On the occasion of the Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Montreal 2009, the Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montreal publishes its issue N°33: “Net as Art”. You will find an article by Jean-Paul Fourmentraux about my work “the Dadameter”.

Apr. 25, 2009: performance of “Human Browser” with Sabine Revillet at the Sonde “04#09 - as you like it - les écritures du web -”. La Chartreuse, Avignon.

Apr. 23, 2009: Performance of “Human Browser” with Louise Boudevin, at the festival Empreintes Numériques, Toulouse.

photographie Claude Fournié

18-25 Apr. 2009: exibited at the Enter 4 Festival in Prague, as part of the current exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens curated by Daphne Dragona.

April 16-25, 2009 at the Tabacalera in Madrid: my new project “Non Conservation Laws” is exhibited at the Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid, nouveau cinéma et art contemporain. Curated by Nathalie Hénon et Jean-François Rettig.

From April 2 to 28, 2009, I’m having a solo show in Toulouse at the Centre Culturel Bellegarde, in the context of the festival “Empreintes numériques”. The exhibition is entitled “D’une crise à l’autre“.

From March 18th to end of August 2009, the Dadameter is exhibited at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens. The exhibition is curated by Daphne Dragona and is entitled “Tag ties and affective spies”.

Talk at the Journées d’Etudes of the Séminaire Arts: pratiques et poétiques, Université Rennes 2. General topic: “Compréhension, incompréhension : du malentendu à la provocation”. The title of my talk was “Transfiguration du scandale”.

Reminder: the Dadameter online exhibition at the Galerie du Jeu de Paume in Paris, will go on until April 5, 2009. Second part of the “Programmation Satellite”, curated by María Inés Rodríguez.

Presentation of the Dadameter at the Upgrade Paris, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris,  with María Inés Rodríguez et Dominique Moulon, invited by Marika Dermineur of incident.net. Watch the video.

My friend Mark Deroin did this drawing during my presentation:

From Nov. 29 to Dec. 7, 2008: the Dadameter is exhibited in Paris at the Rencontres Internationale Paris-Berlin-Madrid pour l’art contemporain et le nouveau cinéma, in the section “Data Meanings” which includes works by Christophe Bruno (France), Claude Closky (France), JoDi (Netherlands), Ubermorgen (Austria), Mindaugas Gaspevicius (Lithuania), Ricardo Iglesias and Mario Ruiz (Spain), Joan Leandre (Spain), Michael Takeo Magruder (United Kingdam), RYBN (France), Marc Lee (Switzerland). Location: Théâtre Paris-Villette.

The Dadameter exhibition at the Jeu de Paume is still on, until April 2009.
 

From Nov. 21st, 2008 to Jan. 17th, 2009: “Power to the people”, collective exhibition at gallery Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, curated by Pierre-Yves Desaives.

With Delphine Bedel, Vincen Beeckman, Delphine Boël, Steven Brouns, Christophe Bruno, Jan Bucquoy, Charley Case, Jacques Charlier, Chéri Samba, Vaast Colson, Jérôme Considerant, Patrick Corillon, Marina Cox, Sterenn Denys, Ronald Dagonnier, Alain De Clerck, Eric Delayen, Sébastien Delire, Messieurs Delmotte, Wim Delvoye, James Ensor, Bernard Gigounon, Douglas Gordon, Hänzel & Gretzel, Hap, Hehe, Isek Bodys Kingelez, Ann Veronica Janssens, Kamagurka, Bouli Lanners, Thomas Lerooy, Jacques Lizene, Emilio Lopez-Menchero, Karine Marenne, Marcel Mariën, Thomas Mazzarella, Selçuk Mutlu, Johan Muyle, David Nicholson, Ronald Ophuis, Pol Pierart, David Pirotte, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sneed, André Stas, Gianni Stefanon, Walter Swennen, Jan Van Imschoot.

From October 21, 2008 to April 5, 2009, The Dadameter is exhibited at the online virtual space of the Jeu de Paume in Paris - second part of “Programmation Satellite”, curated by María Inés Rodríguez.

Exhibition and conference at the Nuit Numérique, Centre Saint-Exupéry, Reims. The theme of the show was “Buy/Sell”. Exhibited artists: Christophe Bruno, Nicolas Frespech, David Guez, Tomoko Inagaki, Matthieu Laurette, PBB art design, Supermarché Ferraille, Tale of tales… The conference was moderated by Annick Rivoire from Poptronics.

Jul. 19 - Oct. 19, 2008: LogoHallucination is exhibited at HMKV, Dortmund. The exhibition ”Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System – Art in the Age of Intellectual Property” is curated by Inke Arns and Francis Hunger.

Photo: Thomas Wucherpfennig (laborb.de)

The artists represented in this exhibition explore the question of art in the age of mechanical reproduction positioning itself differently in a post-Fordist era permeated with digital networks than in Fordist, analogue times to which Walter Benjamin has referred. Artistic techniques like cut-up, sampling, détournement, appropriation, copying, remixing, plagiarism, and repetition are employed.

Participating artists: AGENCY (BE), Daniel Garcia Andújar (ES), Walter Benjamin (US), Pierre Bismuth (FR), Christian von Borries (DE), Christophe Bruno (FR), Claire Chanel & Scary Sherman (US), Lloyd Dunn (US/CZ), Fred Froehlich (DE), Nate Harrison (US), John Heartfield (DE), Michael Iber (DE), Laibach/Novi kolektivizem (SI), Kembrew McLeod (US), Sebastian Lütgert (DE), Monochrom (AT), Negativland and Tim Maloney (US), Der Plan (DE), Ramon & Pedro (CH), David Rice (US), Ines Schaber (DE), Alexei Shulgin & Aristarkh Chernyshev (Electroboutique, RU), Cornelia Sollfrank (DE), Stay Free (US), Jason Torchinsky (US), UBERMORGEN.COM & Alessandro Ludovico & Paolo Cirio (CH/AT/IT), a.o.

June 18 to Sept. 7, 2008: Human Browser has been selected by this year’s Artistic Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, chief curator of Castello di Rivoli, to participate to revolutions online one of the venues of the Biennale of Sydney 2008.

“The 2008 Biennale of Sydney is presented at some of Sydney’s finest harbourside sites and visitors can take the Biennale ArtWalk from venue to venue along the water’s edge. For the first time the exhibition will utilise the astonishing former prison and shipyard, Cockatoo Island. For the fifth time Sydney’s only remaining undeveloped historical wharf - Pier 2/3 in Walsh Bay - will feature as a venue.

Sydney’s leading arts institutions, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Artspace will again be dedicated to the country’s foremost international art event. Specific events and artworks will be presented at the Royal Botanic Gardens and the Sydney Opera House, plus in 2008, we are thrilled to present the first Online Venue for a biennale worldwide.”

Talk at the Auditorium Musée Fabre, Comédie du Livre, Montpellier: iterature.com, from Dada to Google, invited by panoplie.org

The 9th international festival for performative arts Amorph!08 is organized in Paris and Helsinki in May-August, 2008. The organizer is Artists’ Association Muu and artistic curator vocal and performance artist Juha Valkeapää.

Amorph!08 has two phases. The first phase takes place on May 26 - June 8, 2008, in Paris, where it belongs to Printemps (Im)médiat!, Institut Finlandais coordinated part of 100 % Finlande - en France - printemps 2008. The second phase is organized on August 18 - 8 September, 2008, in Helsinki.

Amorph!08 is a meeting point. Participating artists represent the wide field of experimental performative arts: performance art, dance, sound & music, video & web art. The theme is public spaces of Paris and Helsinki. The curator has chosen four Finnish and four French artists, and made four pairs of artists. They are Charlie Jeffery-Jouni Partanen, Carole Douillard-Essi Kausalainen, Viviana Moin-Mimosa Pale, Christophe Bruno-Pessi Parviainen. Each pair will get a public place - flea market, park, river or sea side - to work on. The Parisian places are located near to Mains d’Œuvres, Khiasma and La Générale des Sevres; in Helsinki the central place is Hietalahti. The results of the pairs’ work - performance, installation, presentation, lecture - are shown during the festival weekend.

May 5 to 14, 2008: my new project, the Dadameter, is exhibited in Madrid at the Rencontres Paris-Berlin-Madrid pour l’art contemporain et le nouveau cinéma, in the section “Data Meanings” which includes works by Christophe Bruno, Claude Closky, mi_ga, JoDi, Riccardo Iglesias, Joan Leandre, Michael Takeo Magruder, Rybn, Übermorgen. Locations: Complejo El Aguila, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spanish Cinematheque, Ministerio de Cultura, Instituto Cervantes.
 

The Google Adwords Happening is included in the selection of Antisocial Notworking curated by Geoff Cox on Arnolfini, contemporary arts organisation in Bristol (UK)

Logo.Hallucination is featured in the Danish contemporary Art Magazine Speak UP N°3 by Tanja Nellemann Poulsen & Grete Aagaard. Speak Up N°3 is exhibited in Locked In at Casino Luxembourg from April 19 to June 29 2008.

April 18 – 30, 2008: Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age, curated by Yves Bernard & Domenico Quaranta. At iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Brussels. Holy Fire is probably the first exhibition to show only collectable new media artworks already on the art market, in the form of traditional media (prints, videos, sculptures) or customized media objects.

Featuring: Cory Arcangel (USA), Gazira Babeli (SL), Boredomresearch (UK), Christophe Bruno (FR), Grégory Chatonsky (FR), Miguel Chevalier (FR), Vuk Cosic (SLO), Shane Hope (USA), Jodi (BE/NL), Lab[au] (BE), Joan Leandre (SP), Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied (RU/DE), Golan Levin (USA), Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG (IT), Alison Mealey (UK), Mark Napier (USA), Casey Reas (USA), Charles Sandison (UK/FI), Antoine Schmitt (FR), Yacine Sebti (BE), Alexei Shulgin & Aristarkh Chernyshev (RU), John F. Simon, Jr. (USA), Paul Slocum (USA), Wolfgang Staehle (USA), Eddo Stern (USA), Ubermorgen.com (AT), Carlo Zanni (IT).

March 5 to 15, 2008, Logo.Hallucination is exhibited at Vooruit Arts Center, Gent (Belgium): The Game is up - Art For Sale with Matthieu Laurette, Etoy.corporation, Heath Bunting, Carlos Katastrofsky, Christophe Bruno, Julian Dibbell, Reverend Billy, Billboard Liberation Front and Andrea Crews.

Talk at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Nancy, invited by Dominique Billier and Didier Fass, Artem

Talk at the Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Valence, invited by Annick Lantenois.

Dec. 15, 2007 - March 31, 2008: Fascinum is exhibited at 2008 Culturas, organized by the State Society for Cultural Commemorations, under the aegis of the Spanish Ministry of Culture. An exhibition for the Intercultural Dialogue of Short Films, Music, Photography, Video Art and Net.art, celebrating the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.

My work Logo.Hallucination is featured in the french magazine for contemporary art paris-art.com

Nov. 6 2007, I was invited by Yves Bernard to open the new series of Arts/Sciences conferences at IMAL, Bruxelles.

My work is featured by Prof. Soeren Pold in the Electronic Book Review. “Literature from Page to Interface: The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno’s Iterature”, 2007

Oct 24, 2007: presentation of my work at Ciren, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs / Paris VIII, 31 rue d’Ulm. Invited by Nicolas Thély, Paris I.

L’« Observatoire des nouveaux médias » est un cycle de conférences organisé par l’École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (Cycle supérieur de recherche création et innovation) et l’Université Paris 8 (Master « Art contemporain et nouveaux médias » et équipe de recherche « Esthétique des nouveaux médias »).

Dans cette première conférence de l’année, Christophe Bruno reviendra sur ses dernières créations en compagnie de Nicolas Thély.

Oct. 19-20, 2007: presentation of my work at the workshop Art-oriented programming II, Paris I Sorbonne. Organised by David-Olivier Lartigaud & al.

My work is featured in the book 5 approaches - open shutter - on contemporary photography: “Image technologies The (In)visibility and functions of the digital image” by Prof. Soeren Pold. Galleri Image editions, 2007. Danemark. 

Oct 6 - Nov. 3, 2007: my work Logo.Hallucination is exhibited at Galerie West, The Hague.

A group-show cur. by the contemporary art magazine vvork, including the work of Bad Beuys Entertainment (FR), John Michael Boling (USA), Christophe Bruno (FR), Anetta Mona Chisa (RO) & Lucia Tkacova (SK), collectif_fact (CH), Katerina Matsoukis (GR), Haroon Mirza (UK), Julien Prévieux (FR), Arin Rungjang (TH) & Damon Zucconi (USA).

Watch the video

On Saturday Oct. 6 2007, internet users worldwide will be able to take part in the Nuit Blanche organized by the Paris local council. Second Night will be displayed both on Second Life and in the Jean Musy room at Hôtel d’Albret, 31 rue des Francs-Bourgeois (Paris, 4th district).

Avatars and Parisians are invited to wander through the virtual or physical location of their choice to discover the work of around ten international artists. Architecture, politics, the place of the individual in society, security, prostitution: the works displayed raise questions regarding the various aspects of Second Life, which is a penetrable mirror of the real world.

Based on a proposal by Daniele Balit and Christophe Bruno.

http://nbsl.blogspot.com/

Oct.3, 2007: two of my works (Human Browser and the Google Adwords Happening) are exhibited at “Google Art, or How to Hack Google”, an online exhibition organized by Rhizome.org, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New-York.

Almost coinciding with the ninth anniversary of Google search engine (last Thursday, September 27), the show “Google Art, or How to Hack Google” aims to illuminate and critique the influence of this expanding online institution. Artworks include ad hacks that attempt to foil Google’s seemingly unstoppable business machinery, playful re-interpretations of search results and alterations of its geographical worldview. Together, they elevate and critique Google’s logic, while recognizing its own deepening relationship with our culture, behavior and lives.

http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition/googleshow/

“Google Art, or How to Hack Google” is an online show organized by Rhizome and curated by Ana Otero.

Aug. 11th - Oct. 7th, 2007: Logo.Hallucination is exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Taipei. MOCA Taipei presents the exhibition ZONE V2_ curated by Alex Adriaansens, summing up the last three major themes of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF): ‘Machine Times’, ‘Information is Alive’ and ‘Interact or Die!’. The list of exhibited artists includes: ////////fur////, Jens Brand, Shane Cooper, Christophe Bruno, Lynn Hershman, Joyce Hinterding, David Haines, Ryoji Ikeda, George Legrady, Zachary Lieberman, Marnix de Nijs, David Rokeby, Staalplaat Soundsystem, Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek, Ubermorgen, Alessandro Ludovico, Paolo Cirio, Herwig Weiser and Zhou Hongxiang.

June 4, 2007: a conference by David Zerbib at Fresh theorie, about my work Google Adwords Happening. “Efficacité et flux sans gain : pour une théorie critique de la performance” by David Zerbib, in La création artistique face aux nouvelles technologies, Klincksieck, Paris 2006; coll. “L’Université des Arts”.

The conference presented by Mark Alizart held at Galerie Léo Sheer. Other speakers were Christophe Kihm and Laurent Goumarre.

 
Logo.Hallucination: Virgin Mary vs Adobe

May 26, 2007: talk about my work at the WebFlashFestival - Expérimentations, Beaubourg Centre Pompidou.

L’hallucination collective nous conduit-elle vers une privatisation du regard ? Le Web 2.0 est-il un club sado-masochiste ? Qu’est-ce que le “capitalisme sémantique” et quel est le prix d’un mot sur Google ? La colonisation de l’intime va-t-elle sauver le système-monde ?

My work is featured by Jean-Paul Fourmentraux in the CIAC’s Magazine (Centre d’Art Contemporain de Montreal): Net art V1+2.0. genesis, figures, situations. Link in french here.

May 11-13, 2007: as winner of the ARCO new media prize 2007, Fascinum is exhibited at Observatori, 8º Festival Internacional de Investigación Artística de Valencia.

Fascinum is an Internet installation that shows the pictures from the daily news that are the most viewed (ranked from 1 to 10) on different national Yahoo websites, in real time. The viewer surfs on the infotainment tsunami and experiences the paradoxes of global thinking in a blink.

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May 9-12 2007, conference at Aarhus University; the title of my talk was ”Collective hallucination and capitalism 2.0″. On the picture you can guess the title of the first part: “Scale free elections in France”

With Christian Ulrik Andersen(DK), Inke Arns (DE), Morten Breinbjerg (DK), Christophe Bruno (F), Geoff Cox (UK), Florian Cramer (DE/NL), Matthew Fuller (UK), Lone Koefoed Hansen (DK), Erkki Huhtamo (USA/Fin), Jacob Lillemose (DK), Henrik Kaare Nielsen (DK), Søren Pold (DK), Bodil Marie Thomsen (DK), Jacob Wamberg (DK)

Apr. 28 - May 5, 2007: Logo.Hallucination is exhibited at the Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin pour l’art contemporain et le nouveau cinéma, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid. Curated by Jean-François Rettig & Nathalie Hénon.

Participation to errors deceits mistakes (erreur mensonge méprise tromperie), aconstructedworld publication produced in collaboration with the CNEAI.

April 1st 2007, 12h to 20h, aboard the maison flottante, aconstructedworld, with curator Daniele Balit, will launch the second edition of erreur mensonge méprise tromperie, curated by Jacqueline Riva and Geoff Lowe (Journée hospitalités à Chatou, dans le cadre du Réseau TRAM (Réseau Art Contemporain Paris/Ile-de-France), CNEAI, Centre National de l’Estampe et de l’Art Imprimé, maison Levanneur, île des impressionnistes, 78400 Chatou, France)

March 30 to May 30, 2007: LogoHallucination has been selected to the inaugural program Laboral Cyberspaces at laboral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, Gijon. The Jury was: Rosina Gómez-Baeza (Director of laboral), Gerfried Stocker (Artistic Director of the Ars Electronica Center), Christiane Paul (Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art)  and Alex Adriaansens (Director of V2_, Institute for the Instable Media, Rotterdam)

Mar. 14-17, 2007: exhibition of my installation WiFi-SM at SIANA, Evry: Semaine Internationale des Arts Numériques et Alternatifs. Curated by Grégoire Courtois et al., organized by the city of Evry, INT, Théâtre de l’Agora, Scène Nationale d’Evry et de l’Essonne, Conseil Général de l’Essonne.

Mar. 8, 2007: presentation of my artistic activity at the Ecole supérieure des beaux-arts de Cornouaille, Quimper, invited by Karine Lebrun.

Feb. 22-25, 2007: the WiFi-SM installation exhibited by galerie Sollertis at Diva Art Fair in New-York, during the Armory Show . [link]

Feb. 16th 2007, ARCO Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid: after evaluating the big number of great quality inscriptions, the Jury of the ARCO Beep prize has unanimously awarded the prizes as follows:

@ARCO Prize:

Winner: Fascinum by Christophe Bruno (2001); presented by the gallery Sollertis.

Honorable mention: http://www.sonialamur.com by Isaac Montoya presented by the gallery Espacio Mínimo.

Off-ARCO Prize:

Winner: Brainloop by Davide Grassi.

The jury was:

Fernando Castro Flórez, professor and art critic, Madrid.
Heiner Holtappels, Director, Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo/Time Based Art, Ámsterdam.
Joasia Krysa, Faculty of Technology, University of Plymouth, UK, Kurator.org founder.
Arnau Puig, philosophy PHD and art critic, Barcelona.
Marta Ruperez, New Media curator, FACT Liverpool, UK.
Jury’s Honorary Chairwoman: Marie France Veyrat, representing BEEP/Data Logic.
Jury’s Secretary: Vicente Matallana, of LaAgencia, Madrid

Feb. 14 - 19, 2007: my Internet installation Fascinum (2001), is presented at the ARCO Art Fair, Madrid, galerie Sollertis. See a review in El Pais by Roberta Bosco.

Feb. 10th 2007: presentation of some of my works at the DorkBot Madrid, “Gente que hace cosas raras con electricidad”.

Together with works by Gianni Motti and Paul Devautour, my piece Google Adwords Happening is featured in a paper by Nicolas Thély “Manières de faire : pratique et engagement de l’artiste contemporain”, Nicolas Thély, revue Tracés n°11, ENS LSH, Lyon, 2006.

Nicolas Thély is Maître de conférences at the UFR Arts Plastiques et Sciences de l’art, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon - Sorbonne

Jan. 23 - 28, 2007: Human Browser winner of the Share Festival.

The jury was:

Carolyn Christov Bakargiev, chief curator Castello di Rivoli
Joasia Krysa, curator & senior lecturer University of Plymouth
Alex Adriaansen, director V2 di Rotterdam
Vicente Matallana, director La Agencia di Madrid
Gerfried Stocker, director Ars Electronica Festival di Linz

Watch the prize ceremony here.

The festival was curated by Simona Lodi, Chiara Garibaldi, Manuela De Caro, Luca Barbeni, at the Accademia Albertina in Torino. Human Browser was performed by Alessandra Lappano assisted by Simone Sandretti. With the support of the Centre Culturel Français de Turin.

Jan. 19th, 2007: performance of Human Browser, interpreted in Italian by Simona Sagone, at the Future Web Festival 2007, curated by Luca Vaglio, FutureFilmFestival at Palazzo ReEnzo, Bologna.

You can watch the videos in this article by Luca Vaglio, “Google va all’Actor’s Studio“, Affari Italiani.

Dec. 13th: Le Net Art à l’oeuvre, journée d’étude à la BNF (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)

Jean-Noël Jeanneney, Daniel Buren (sous réserve), Jean-Paul Fourmentraux, Anne Laforêt, Christophe Bruno, Samuel Bianchini, Agnès de Cayeux, Carlo Giordano, Galerie Numeriscausa, Edouardo Kac, France Lasfargues, Marie Saladin, Xavier Sené, Grégory Miura, Annick Rivoire, François Michaud, Janique Laudouar, Paul Devautour

Nov. 24 - Dec. 2nd, 2006: my new artwork Logo.Hallucination is exhibited at the “Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin pour l’art contemporain et le nouveau cinéma“, Théâtre Paris Villette, “Media Critique” section. Curated by Jean-François Rettig & Nathalie Hénon.

Exhibited artists in the “Media Critique” section are : JODI, UBERMORGEN, Christophe BRUNO, Matthew OSTROWSKI, Gwen MACGREGOR, Jacky SAWATZKY, Denis-Paul BEAUBOIS, Jordan CRANDALL.

Human Browser is nominated for the Share Prize 2007.

In contemporary with the international contemporary art fair ARTISSIMA, the Piemonte Share Festival has organized a meeting of the jury of the Share Prize 2007. The works selected for the shortlist are:

Simpletext Jonah Brucker-Cohen (Ireland)
Human-browser Bruno Christophe (France)
Mikroorchestra.com Mikro Orchestra Project (Polland)
Amazon-noir.com UBERMORGEN.COM - Paolo Cirio - Alessandro Ludovico (AU,USA,IT)
The Analog Color Field Computer Gregory Shakar (USA)
Shockbot Corejulio 5VOLTCORE (Austria)

The jury was:
Carolyn Christov Bakargiev, chief curator Castello di Rivoli
Joasia Krysa, curator and senior lecture University of Plymouth
Alex Adriaansen, director V2 di Rotterdam
Vicente Matallana, director La Agencia di Madrid
Gerfried Stocker, director Ars Electronica Festival di Linz

Nov 1st - 5, 2006: exhibited at ArtCologne contemporary art fair, galerie Sollertis.

 Oct 26 - 30, 2006: Fascinum (2001), one of my first pieces, is presented at FIAC Paris, International Fair for Contemporary Art,  Cour Carrée du Louvre, galerie Sollertis.

Fascinum shows the news pictures that are the most viewed (ranked from 1 to 10) on different national Yahoo portals, in real time. A panoptical vision of the topics of fascination of mankind: the viewer surfs on the infotainment wave and experiences the paradoxes of global thinking in a blink.

The WiFi-SM installation is exhibited on October 7, 2006, at the Nuit Blanche de Paris, City Hall of the 4th district of Paris.

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Nuit Blanche de Paris 2006, “Survie, urgence des cultures“, Mairie du IVème arrondissement. Curated by Metazone.

Sept. 23, 2006: performance of Human Browser aka Jérôme Piques, at the festival “Les futurs de l’écrit” (”The Futurs of Writing”), Abbaye de Noirlac. Ecriture et lecture : nouvelles formes, curated by Emmanuel Cyriaque, David-Olivier Lartigaud et al., Editions Hyx.

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Exhibited artists: Dan Graham, Pierre Bismuth, Yves Duranthon, Mongrel, ASCII Art Ensemble, Christophe Bruno, Martin Le Chevallier, Mark Napier, Peter Cho, Ben Fry, Young Hae Chang, Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau, Hansol Huh, Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern, Quantic Dream, Margarete Jahrmann and Max Moswitzer, Machinima selection.

My piece Dreamlogs is featured in an article by Etienne Candel entitled “Miracles and mirages of self publishing. The case of Christophe Bruno’s Dreamlogs”, published in the French review Réseaux.

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Aug. 15 - Sept. 3, 2006: a video of my work Human Browser is exhibited at File 2006, Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil. [link]

From August 5 to August 20, 2006, Human Browser is performing at the Sydney Esquisse Art and Design Festival, curated by Simon Horauf & al. The idea was to direct the performance from Paris with a remote live video link and I had to rework the code a little bit to have the whole installation set up. On the picture you can see the actress, Beccy Iland, with a webcam on her shoulder and Wi-Fi laptop in her backpack (a nice idea by Simon which allowed to simplify everything). Thanks to the live video link between Sydney and Paris, I can see and hear what Beccy sees and hears in Sydney. I input keywords on my computer in Paris and the text-to-speech audio flow hijacked from Google arrives in Beccy’s headset.

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An article about my work by E. Chamontin in “Formules N°10” Revue des littératures à contraintes [link]

Some of my works (Non-weddings and the Google Adwords Happening) are featured in the new book by Philip Lenssen “55 ways to have fun with Google“.

More about Philip Lenssen here
More about my Google.art here

The Google Adwords Happening is featured in the book by Jon Ippolito and Joline Blais: At the Edge of Art