http://www.christophebruno.com Tue, 06 May 2008 08:14:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2008/05/05/rencontres-paris-berlin-madrid-2/   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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2008/05/05/the-dadameter/ The Google Adwords Happening is included in the selection of Antisocial Notworking curated by Geoff Cox on Arnolfini, contemporary arts organisation in Bristol (UK) http://www.christophebruno.com/2008/05/02/antisocial-notworking-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. http://www.christophebruno.com/2008/04/18/speak-up-n%c2%b03/ 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2008/04/18/holy-fire-brussels/ 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. http://www.christophebruno.com/2008/03/05/vooruit-arts-center-gent/ Talk at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Nancy, invited by Dominique Billier and Didier Fass, Artem http://www.christophebruno.com/2008/02/01/ensa-nancy/ Talk at the Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Valence, invited by Annick Lantenois. http://www.christophebruno.com/2008/01/17/erba-valence/ I'm invited to Place de la toile, on the French radio station France Culture (audio link in French). "Art et Internet", with Christophe Bruno, Nicolas Thély, Annie Gentes. http://www.christophebruno.com/2008/01/04/place-de-la-toile-france-culture/ I'm interviewed by Anita Castiel in Surpris par la nuit, on the French radio France Culture (audio link in French). "TAZ ou Liberté j’écris ton nom. Artistes dans les Zones d’autonomie temporaires", with Cecile Babiole, Alin Avila, Christophe Bruno, Michel Maffesoli, Tatiana et Natacha Quester Séméon. http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/12/19/interview-france-culture/ 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/12/15/2008-culturas/ My work Logo.Hallucination is featured in the french magazine for contemporary art paris-art.com http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/11/21/logohallucination-in-paris-artcom/ Nov. 6 2007, I was invited by Yves Bernard to open the new series of Arts/Sciences conferences at IMAL, Bruxelles. http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/11/06/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 http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/10/27/electronic-book-review/ 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/10/24/ciren-ensad-paris-8/ Oct. 19-20, 2007: presentation of my work at the workshop Art-oriented programming II, Paris I Sorbonne. Organised by David-Olivier Lartigaud & al. http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/10/19/art-oriented-programming-ii/ 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.  http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/10/15/the-invisibility-and-functions-of-the-digital-image/ 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/10/06/galerie-west-the-hague/ 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/10/06/second-night-nuit-blanche-de-paris-on-second-life/ 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, ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/10/06/curating-second-night/ 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, ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/10/03/rhizomeorg-new-museum-of-contemporary-art-new-york/ I'm interviewed by David Guez in the french magazine Poptronics: Dans ce quatrième boot’, David Guez propose à Christophe Bruno une déclinaison Net-art du fameux « Abécédaire » proposé à Gilles Deleuze par Claire Parnet... Link to the interview (audio file in french) http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/08/20/abecedaire-poptronics/ 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/08/11/zone-v2_-at-moca-taipei/ In 2006 and 2007 -empyre- global community conducted three moderated conversations on the three leitmotifs of DOCUMENTA 12 chosen by Roger Buergel. I was invited to participate to the first one in March 2006, now published in the DOCUMENTA 12 Magazine Project: Is Modernity our Antiquity? (original pdf here) With Christiane Paul ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/07/17/is-modernity-our-antiquity/ I'm interviewed by Luca Barbeni in Ecopolis, online magazine about information ecology: Christophe Bruno is a french artist always reflecting in his works about communication and language. In his last work logo.hallucination, he monitors the web trough a pattern recognition software, that looks for logo copyright infringements. We talk about privatization ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/06/26/interview-ecopolis/ 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/06/04/fresh-theorie-quest-ce-que-la-performance/   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 ? ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/05/26/talk-at-the-centre-pompidou/ 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. http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/05/18/ciacs-magazine/ 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/05/11/observatori-valencia/ 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/05/09/the-aesthetics-interface-aarhus-university/ 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/05/01/interview-digicult/ 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. http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/04/28/rencontres-paris-berlin-madrid/ 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/04/01/errors-deceits-mistakes/ 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/03/30/labcyberspaces-gijon/ A podcast interview and an article about my work by Janique Laudouar in the new magazine Culture Mobile http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/03/14/interview-in-culturemobilenet/ 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. http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/03/14/wifi-sm-at-siana-evry/ Mar. 8, 2007: presentation of my artistic activity at the Ecole supérieure des beaux-arts de Cornouaille, Quimper, invited by Karine Lebrun. http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/03/08/talk-at-the-esbac-quimper/ Feb. 22-25, 2007: the WiFi-SM installation exhibited by galerie Sollertis at Diva Art Fair in New-York, during the Armory Show . [link] http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/02/22/diva-art-fair-new-york/ 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/02/16/fascinum-wins-the-arco-prize-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. http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/02/14/arco-art-fair-madrid/ Feb. 10th 2007: presentation of some of my works at the DorkBot Madrid, "Gente que hace cosas raras con electricidad". http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/02/10/dorkbot-madrid/ 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/01/29/pratique-et-engagement-de-l%e2%80%99artiste-contemporain/ 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/01/23/piemonte-share-festival-torino-2/ 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. http://www.christophebruno.com/2007/01/19/futurefilmfestival-bologna/ 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, ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2006/12/13/le-net-art-a-loeuvre-bnf/ 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2006/11/24/logohallucination/ 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, ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2006/11/24/rencontres-internationales-paris-berlin/ 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 ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2006/11/12/nominated-for-the-share-prize-2007-torino/ Nov 1st - 5, 2006: exhibited at ArtCologne contemporary art fair, galerie Sollertis. http://www.christophebruno.com/2006/11/01/artcologne-fair/ In September 2004 I was a guest-blogger for the French online magazine fluctuat.net. I wrote a series of short posts about what could be called «the precursors of the Web»… or «the Web minus the technology» (see here for the text in french). Here is an augmented and updated version in ... http://www.christophebruno.com/2006/10/31/the-web-before-the-web/