[-empyre-] Is Modernity our Antiquity: Introducing Christophe Bruno

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

hi -empyre-

Please welcome Christophe Bruno (FR):

Christophe Bruno lives and works in Paris. He’s been exhibited  
internationally in many festivals and museums: Transmediale in  
Berlin, ICC in Tokyo, Nuit Blanche de Paris, File Festival in Sao  
Paulo, Modern Art Museum of the city of Paris, Tirana Biennale of  
Contemporary Art, f.2004@shangai, ReJoyce Festival in Dublin, Ichim  
in Paris, P0es1s.net in Berlin, Microwave Media Art Festival in Honk- 
Kong, Read_Me Festival in Dortmund and Aarhus, Vidarte in Mexico City...

 Part of his work uses language as a global medium but he also deals  
with all kind of media resituating them in some critical context  
linked to the panoptical aspects of the Web: many of his pieces  
involve the idea of hijacking global symbolic forms like search  
engines, news portals or the blogosphere… He was awarded with an  
Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2003 for his piece The  
Google Adwords Happening, in which he introduces the idea of a  
“generalized semantic capitalism”.

 He just had a solo show at the galerie Sollertis in Toulouse where  
his WiFi-SM installation was exhibited for the first time. In this  
ironic piece, he tries to get rid of the usual interfaces and deals  
with the nightmare of the pain2pain. In his latest work, Human  
Browser, which was presented at Transmediale 06, the technology is  
even more hidden. The concept mixes mythologies of the separation man/ 
machine, globalization of speech and performativity.

 He just started a new project, Cosmolalia, where he began to  
develop a conceptual performative pseudo-mapping of the irreducible  
gap between Antiquity and Postmodernity.

 He divides his time between his artistic activity, teaching,  
lectures and publications.

http://www.christophebruno.com


-cm