Vendredi 19 avril 2013 à la BNF et samedi 20 avril à la Gaîté Lyrique : journées d’études net art “cartographies de l’invisible. Art, réseau, big data“. Organisées par Christophe Bruno et Marie Saladin.

Exhibited at HMKV, Dortmund: HIS MASTER’S VOICE: On Voice and Language. Opening Friday 22 March 2013, 7 pm.

With Christophe Bruno (FR), Erik Bünger (SE), William S. Burroughs & Anthony Balch (US), Aslı Çavuşoğlu (TR), YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (KR), Dortmunder Sprechchor (DE), Jakup Ferri (KOS), Jochen Gerz (DE), Richard Grayson (UK), Asta Gröting (DE), Daniel Hofer (DE), Anette Hoffmann / Andrea Bellu / Matei Bellu / Regina Sarreiter (DE), International Institute of Political Murder (CH), Ignas Krunglevicius (LT/NO), Bruce Nauman (US), Stefan Panhans (DE), Julius Popp (DE), Laure Prouvost (FR/UK), Kathrin Resetarits (AT), Peter Rose (US), Manuel Saiz (ES), Anri Sala (AL), Richard Serra with Nancy Holt (US), Katarina Zdjelar (SR/NL), Artur Zmijewski (PL) and others.

My work is featured in the book “Beyond Contemporary Art” by Etan Ilfeld, Vivays Publishing, London.

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Feb. 22 : talk at Ateliers-DLW, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, invited by Louise Merzeau. “Web, web archivé et création artistique”.

24/01/2013, conférence Festival (É)mergences Lux-Scène nationale de Valence.

Oct. 17-21: exhibited at Show Off Paris. La Foire d’art contemporain et des nouveaux médias, 7, rue des Filles du Calvaire 75 003 Paris. Curated by Dominique Moulon.

Mardi 25 septembre de 17h à minuit, à la Gaîté Lyrique : conférence Upgrade “Eléments de langage“. Organisée par Marika Dermineur et Catherine Lenoble, avec Benjamin Cadon, Michel Tibon-Cornillot et Christophe Bruno.

June 27th: Questions of Value - From Commons to Communomics: Resisting Privatization.
Conference at RADAR, Loughborough University, organized by Kuba Szreder.  Title of my conference: “From commodification of langage to art history live”.

Conférence aux Rencontres Numériques 2012, 15 juin 2012, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, dans le cadre de Futur en Seine

Conference at DEAF Festival 2012, Rotterdam

IT’S THE CRISIS, STUPID!, MAY 17

The panel will focus on the past, present and future of art in relation to a broken economy and a crisis that deeply affects the production of art. How can art take place under these conditions? What can it tell us about the crisis? Does the crisis present new opportunities for some of artists to achieve more autonomy? Which alternative business models are emerging?

Speakers & respondents include Vicente Matallana, Giorgios Papadopoulus, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Saul Albert, Christian Ulrik Andersen, Geoff Cox, Søren Pold and Christophe Bruno.

Organised by LaAgencia and DARC, Aarhus University.

Mercredi 11 avril 2012, 19h à l’auditorium du Jeu de Paume : “Import-Export”, conférence autour de l’exposition en ligne “Form@ts”.

Cette conférence aborde la question de l’émergence, l’obsolescence et l’import-export des formes artistiques, dans le contexte d’Internet.
Sur le réseau, croisements, hybridations, réappropriations, se succèdent à un rythme effréné. Les dispositifs contemporains d’hyper-surveillance permettent-ils de suivre à la trace les formes artistiques en devenir, de prédire leurs cycles, leurs oscillations entre utopie et dystopie ? Ou, au contraire, l’écosystème virtuel de ces formats est-il intrinsèquement instable et imprévisible ?

Avec Christophe Bruno, commissaire de l’exposition, Chrystelle Desbordes, historienne de l’art et critique d’art, Samuel Tronçon, philosophe et Sonia Marques et Etienne Cliquet, enseignants et artistes à l’initiative du projet collectif Magic Ring.

11 avril 2012, 19h à l’auditorium du Jeu de Paume, 1 place de la Concorde, Paris

http://espacevirtuel.jeudepaume.org/formts-2-1388/

15.03.2012 – 19.05.2012: The Dadameter is exhibited at MNAC Bucarest
Re:Made, Contemporary Critical Reinterpretations
curators: Nathalie Hénon, Jean-François Rettig / Rencontres Internationales
artists: Christophe Bruno (FR), Tony Cokes (US), JoDi (NL), Joan Leandre (ES), RYbN (FR), Manuel Saiz (ES), Alexander Schellow (DE), Übermorgen (AT/CH).

From Oct. 19, 2011: my project “Global artists” is exhibited at lafiac.com

lafiac.com est une galerie en ligne qui étend les frontières de la Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain aux artistes qui utilisent le Web comme espace de création. Au même moment que le vernissage professionnel  de la dite «FIAC», venez rencontrer les figures de la création contemporaine à l’heure d’Internet.

Vernissage le mercredi 19 octobre à 19h00 à la Tapisserie.

Les artistes : Annie Abrahams, Jeremy Bailey, Alain Barthelemy, Émilie Brout et Maxime Marion, Christophe Bruno, Grégory Chatonsky, Thomas Cheneseau, Caroline Delieutraz, Marco Cadioli, Petra Cortright, Constant Dullaart, Nicolas Frespech, David Guez, JODI, Julien Levesque, Guthrie Lonergan, Filipe Matos, Albertine Meunier, Microtruc, Mouchette, Esteban Ottaso, Angelo Plessas, Rafael Rozendaal, Antoine Schmitt, Nicolas Sordello, Systaime, Protey Temen,Marc Veyrat et Franck Soudan

Commissaires : Florent di Bartolo, Julien Levesque et Margherita Balzerani

From march 2011 to september 2012, I will be curating the online virtual space of Jeu de Paume in Paris. The overall cycle is called “Side Effects” and the first exhibition “Identités précaires” (march 10, 2011 to september 15, 2011) is a collective show with artists : 0100101110101101.ORG, Anonymous, La Barbe, Aram Bartholl, Luther Blissett, Heath Bunting, Dick head man Records, Etoy, Iocose, Julien Levesque, Les Liens Invisibles, Michael Mandiberg, Moddr_, Mouchette, Cornelia Sollfrank, Yes Men.

“La réification et le codage de l’ensemble des relations humaines — écho de la surveillance et de l’archivage généralisés de la moindre trace de nos actes — ne vont pas sans un effet de destitution subjective. Celle-ci est à mettre en rapport avec les thèmes de l’anonymat ou du voile identitaire, thèmes qui sont omniprésents sur le réseau et en particulier dans les pratiques artistiques. Au-delà de la question du pseudonyme ou de l’avatar, il s’agit de cerner comment les stratégies de dévoilement ou au contraire d’effacement identitaire, peuvent devenir essentielles à la construction du processus artistique, dans la mesure où la position identitaire de l’artiste est mise en jeu de manière radicale et critique.”

Dimanche 30 janvier, 18h00 - 21h00
à Plateforme [more info]

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Plateforme, 73 rue des Haies, 75020 Paris France.
Les rendez-vous USER_FRIENDLY proposent une rencontre directe et conviviale avec des projets d’artistes en cours ou récents. Ces événements mensuels sont principalement consacrés aux formes et questions induites par l’usage des médias numériques. Chaque rendez-vous est l’occasion d’un croisement entre plusieurs propositions complémentaires, leurs formes peuvent varier de la simple projection vidéo à la performance live en passant par des discussions, conférences ou débats.

Jan. 13, 2011. Our brand new project Artwar(e) by Samuel Tronçon and myself, is invited to the first Speedshow in France: Open Internet, curated and produced by: Aram Bartholl, Marie Lechner & Anne Roquigny. Participating artists: Anonymous, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Christophe Bruno & Samuel Tronçon, Claude Closky, Marika Dermineur, Caroline Delieutraz, Constant Dullaart, JODI, Jérôme Joy, Tobias Leingruber, Aymeric Mansoux & Dave Griffiths & Marloes de Valk, Albertine Meunier, Geraldine Juarez feat. M.I.A., Evan Roth, Systaime, VideOdrome mailing list, La Quadrature du Net (Jérémie Zimmermann).

SPEED SHOW vol.5: ‘Open Internet’
Welat Internetcafe
12 Rue d’Enghien, Paris
13th January  2011
7:00-11:00 PM

From Nov. 25 to Dec.4: exhibition at Centre Pompidou, for the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, curated by Nathalie Hénon and Jean-François Rettig. Artwar(e) (work in progress, collaboration with Samuel Tronçon) and Non-Conservation Laws (installation) are exhibited. Nov. 27: workshop Artwar(e) with Etienne Cliquet, Anne Laforet, Caroline Engel, Samuel Tronçon, Christophe Bruno.

Nov. 19, 2010, 2nd Biennale Figures de l’Interactivité, Poitiers, curated by Jean-Marie Dallet: talk and Human Browser performance with Jérôme Piques.

Nov. 3, 2010: Conference about ArtWar(e), our new project with philosopher Samuel Tronçon, at the Share Festival, Torino. Invited by curator Caroline Engel from the Centre d’Art des Capucins, Embrun. Watch the video here.

From Oct. 20: exhibited at Ceci n’est pas la Fiac ! lafiac.com est un espace rhizomatique qui étend les frontières de la Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain aux artistes qui utilisent le Web comme espace de création. lafiac.com : lieu de présentation de 29 artistes internationaux et 29 oeuvres en ligne, accessibles par tous. Une galerie en ligne à l’heure où un grand nombre de galeries internationales se regroupent en un même espace pour exposer et vendre… Curateurs & organisateurs : Margherita Balzerani, Florent di Bartolo, Julien Levesque.

July 15 to 17, 2010: ArtWar(e), our new work in progress with philosopher Samuel Tronçon, is exhibited at “SMIR in Piazza“, Mondovi, Piemonte. We were invited by curator Caroline Engel from Centre d’Art des Capucins d’Embrun. “SMIR in Piazza” is organized by SMIR (Spazi Multimediali Innovazione e Ricerca), Marcovaldo association, the city of Mondovi and in collaboration with Le Centre d’Art des Capucins d’Embrun, and is curated by the organizers of Share Festival in Torino. SMIR is part of the Programme Objectif Coopération Territoriale européenne Alcotra 2007-2013. This first version of ArtWar(e) is co-produced by the City of Embrun.

May 29, 2010: Human Browser performance at NIMk (Netherlands Media Art Institute), Amsterdam, in Dutch & English with actress Lieke Jetten.

“Performmikka Internettikka” is an evening with internet/teleperformances by Annie Abrahams, Christophe Bruno, Constant Dullaart, Robin Nicolas and Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman, focused on the relations between contemporary performance practice and the internet. Curated by Petra Heck.

May 15, 18h : Human Browser performance with Jérôme Piques at the opening of the exhibition “Take shape - Make shift”, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil.

May 15 to June 13, 2010: “Take shape - Make shift”. The exhibition is curated by Charlie Jeffery. With Christophe Bruno, John Cage, Colin Champsaur, Tom Dale, David Gelot, Jason Glasser, Aurelie Godard, Matthew Houlding, Thomas Jeames, Charlie Jeffery, Brighid Lowe, Peter Lütje, Tim Mitchell, Dan Robinson, Wolf von Kries, Virginie Yassef.

From April 8 to 30, the Dadameter is exhibited at Text + T_T = TTxT, Galerie de l’école supérieure d’art de Lorient. Curated by Julie Morel.

April 3 to June 13, 2010: Human Browser is presented at S.M.A.K. (Museum of Contemporary Art of Ghent) in the exhibition Electrified 02 - Hacking public space curated by Eva DeGroote and Thibaut Verhoeven. Artists exhibited are Ben Benaouisse, Carlos Rodríguez-Méndez, Amilcar Packer, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, Dogma00, Javier Núñez Gasco, Roberta Gigante, Messieurs Delmotte, Wilfredo Prieto, Miet Warlop, Helmut Smits, Christophe Bruno, Pierre-Laurent Cassière.

For the opening, Human Browser was performed in English, French and Flemish by Ariane Loze.

March 3rd to 27th, 2010: my 2004 project Global Artists is reactivated and exhibited at galerie Ars Longa in Paris. “Le paradoxe du petit monde” is an exhibition curated by Judith Lavagna (commissariat) and Cyril Verde (observateur), with Damien Aspe, Guillaume Aubry, Christophe Bruno, Caroline Delieutraz (sound designer Julien Malfilatre),  INRUSE, P. Nicolas Ledoux, + guests.

Jan. 28, 2010, Sonde 01#10, La Chartreuse. “Human Browser” performance at the Boutique d’Ecriture du Grand Toulouse, by three different actors: Raphaëlle Bouvier, Maxime Potard and Annabelle Verhaeghe. I also gave a talk. Videos are available on Selfworld.

Exhibited at The Invisible Generation, Melbourne, a project by William S. Burroughs filtered through time by Daniele Balit and Per Hüttner.

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”.

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.”

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Read more…

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.

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.

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.

The works selected for the shortlist were:

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),

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.

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.

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.

http://www.unbehagen.com/wifism-for-real
http://www.unbehagen.com/wifism

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.

Video 1 - Video 2

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.

Watch the video

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

Authors include: Amy Alexander, Inke Arns, Christophe Bruno, Javier Candeira, Yves Degoyon, Elpueblodechina, Olga Goriunova, Francis Hunger, Sven Konig, Eric Londaits, Alessandro Ludovico, Ilia Malinovsky, Alex McLean, Special guest, Julian Rohrhuber, Alexei Shulgin, Leonardo Solaas, Mitchell Whitelaw, Renate Wieser.

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From 16th to 31st of March 2006 at physical spaces: Palais de Tokyo (Paris), NICC (Antwerp) and Careof (Milan). Curated by Daniele Balit and Pierre Mertens. Supported by NICC, Love Difference et Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto.

http://www.neterotopia.net

The project is inspired by Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia.

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Invited on Empyre - soft_skinned_space for March 2006. Guest are: Christophe Bruno (FR), Erik Kluitenberg (NL), Christiane Paul (US), Dirk Vekemans (BE), and as moderator/guest, Christina McPhee (US)

The topic, “Is modernity our antiquity?”, is proposed by Roger Beurgel, artistic director for Documenta 12.

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Feb. 2, 2006: Manon Kahle has become the first Female Browser. During four days, the visitors of the Transmediale festival in Berlin have fallen beneath her spell.

Videos: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6

You can also watch here the “guided tour” of the exhibition by Human Browser. On the video you can see works by Simon Penny, the Yes Men and Christian Möller. The video was broadcast on the website of the french newspaper Libération.

From January 10 to February 11, 2006: solo exhibition at galerie Sollertis, Toulouse. Here is the press release. Live performance of the Human Browser at the opening, with Jérôme Piques. The WiFi-SM patch is now for real and it will be exhibited at the gallery. Visitors are very welcome to try it! L’exposition a bénéficié du soutien du CNAP et de medias-cite.org

Human Browser, alias Jérôme Piques, a essayé d’engager la conversation avec les visiteurs de la galerie Sollertis à Toulouse, lors du vernissage de mon exposition solo.

Extraits vidéo : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

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Oct 1st, 2005: exhibited at the Fourth Nuit Blanche of Paris, Mairie du IVème. Curated by Metazone. [link]

Sept 21-23, 2005: exhibited at Ichim 05, Paris : “Digital Culture and Heritage”, Patrimoine culturel et numérique. Exhibition: Transmission - Google Gallery, Bibliothèque nationale de France & Cité internationale universitaire de Paris [link]

Non-weddings featured in “Media Art Net 2″, by Dieter Daniels and Rudolf Frieling, curators at the ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe). [link]

Paris, Sunday, May 29, 2005 : Jérôme Piques v1.0, the first Human Browser, created by net artist Christophe Bruno, was experimented nearby a parisian polling station.

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Iterature.com exhibited in the Top 5 Netkunst - Kanon : Danish Kunstmagasinet P2of Danmarks Radios. The online exhibition involves Alexei Shulgin, Jodi, Christophe Bruno, the Web Stalker and Etoy.com, and is curated by Prof. Soeren Pold.

Feb 24 - Mar 1, 2005: exhibited at the Piemonte Share Festival, Torino. [link]