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)

I’m interviewed by Giulia Simi in the italian magazine digicult.it. Here is the interview in english:

How Logo.Hallucination idea was born?

Up to now many of my work were dealing with questions of language and globalization, commodification of speech (http://www.iterature.com/adwords) etc., and I felt that I had to move more deeply towards a field closer to the question of the image, but in relation to similar questionings.

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