On February 28, 2016, Donald Trump gave his first address to Congress. He sent a clear message that enlightens his Presidential philosophy: "Each American generation passes the torch of truth, liberty and justice --- in an unbroken chain all the way down to the present....
ABSTRACT SHOTS are snapshots of numbered iterations of the Brain Factory shaping process. They are printed portraits of the unspeakable....
Video of the show in Hong Kong, City University, School of Creative Media Chief Curator: Maurice Benayoun http://benayoun.com/moben/2018/03/03/young-media-artists-in-china-hk/ CREDITS 主辦單位 / ORGANIZERS 香港城市大學 City University of Hong Kong 中國美協策展委員會 China Artists Association Curatorial Committee 深圳市關山月美術館 Guan Shanyue Art Museum 出品人 / PRODUCERS 郭位 香港城市大學校長 Way KUO, President of City University of Hong Kong 范廸安 中國美術家協會策展委員會主任、中央美術學院院長 FAN Dian, Chairman of CACF,...
The annual "On the Road" exhibition is this year dedicated to New Media Art. With the title "Young Media Artists in China", the 50 or so works by 32 artists selected by the nominating committee. Maurice Benayoun has been appointed Chief Curator....
At the same time an innovative art installation, a world premiere, and a prototype for neuro-design technology, "Brain Cloud" is part of the "Brain Factory" series of works helping the visitors "brain-workers" to give shape to human abstractions just by thinking....
Border Diggers Students from CityU School of Creative Media and Nanjing University Art Institute tracking the obstacles in mediated communication. Date: 20 Dec 2017 – 20 Jan 2018 Venue: Creative Media Centre 3/F, School of Creative Media, CityU HK (HONG KONG) Museum of Fine Art, Art Institute Nanjing University...
The Art Institute of Nanjing University and Nanjing U Museum of Art exhibits for the first time in China "Just Dig It!" by Maurice Benayoun. Produced and presented by Osage Gallery in 2016, "Just Dig It!" presents VR artworks created from 1995 to 2016....
NOMINATION EXHIBITION at Guan Shanyue Museum Shenzhen, with the contribution of 15 NOMINATORS, nominating 102 YOUNG CHINESE MEDIA ARTISTS part of ON THE ROAD Archive. 32 MEDIA ART INSTALLATIONS....
Astrilab scenic apparatus commissioned by ASTRI research Centre, HK, constituted by 3 different elements, all playing with each other. The functions of presenting Astri activities, and offering a playful way to experience innovation in action, are performed by these 3 Astrilab components: The Hypercube, the...
"Brain Factory" is media art and science project by Maurice Benayoun. Brain Workers-visitors can control matter with their brain (EEG). They give shape to Human Abstractions that will be reified (converted into object) by 3D printing....
Framed Subversion When any attempt of subversion is rapidly institutionalized, the critic of the Spectacle becomes THE spectacle. Guy Debord is no exception. Commonly praised by the Academia, The Society of the Spectacle lost most of its subversive flavor. The Purloin Thought (a reference to The Purloined Letter by...
Interactive Installation EEG 3D Printing. Brain Factory translates human abstractions into 3D Printed objects...
Interactive Installation EEG 3D Printing. Brain Factory translates human abstractions into 3D Printed objects...
Exhibition at Osage Gallery Hong Kong: 5 video installations + original printed shots...
Virtual tunnels are made to go beyond obstacles, to allow people appart to meet in spite of any form of obstacles....
Interactive, VR installation, steel structure...
2D Prints from the Tunnel under the Atlantic (1995) printed in the Pompidou Center, Paris, during the actual digging between Paris and Montreal. by Maurice Benayoun Sept. 1995 - March 2016 Tunnel Shots (to see the full series www.tunnelshots.com) They were shot, like photo shoots, inside the virtual space of...
Quarxs Series and original drawings presented in their original 90s environment during Biennale Anim ...
Collective exhibition: White Cube, Essence de l'art contemporain, The spirit of contemporary art...
Project variant developed for Hong Kong Act by Osage Art Foundation (June 2015) Conception: Maurice Benayoun - MoBen Set design: Tobias Klein Visuals: Tobias Klein - MoBen 1.1 HCI (Human Computer Interfaces) have helped us communicate with computers. 1.2 Converting a computer model into an object is called “reification.” 1.3 3D...
l'essence de l'art contemporain. 20 conceptual fragrances ...
The Essence of Contemporary Art, conceptual fragrance ...
interactive installation, 3DVR, interactive motion...
Emotion in Space seeks to re-imagine ways in which global real- time datasets can give us a unique perspective on the understanding of world motion through emotional currents emanating from 3200 different cities...
OPEN SKY GALLERY is an international platform and gallery designed to envision specially curated time-based artworks amidst Hong Kong’s public urban space. The Open Sky is a twofold project including Open Sky Gallery for artists and Open Sky Campus allowing City University of Hong Kong, School of...
Le GRAND RÉIFICATEUR (The Big Reificator) projet pour le Grand Palais Bétonner l’indicible Une imprimante géante convertit en béton frais les concepts les plus abstraits. La pensée prend forme durable ou éphémère. La machine débite inéluctablement des volumes sculptés, soigneusement alignés sous la Nef (laquelle? si le Grand...
Interactive tablet version of Political Shift....
The French blue-white-red Cocarde represent simultaneously the Revolution and the Republic. Motion and institution. Values come with colors....
Furtive Video, is a new genre on its own. The video is affected with a personality. Shy or proud, the video can decide to be seen or to stay hidden. A video with a behavior that doesn't alter its content but its mode of visibility. This mode of...
Artworks can now occupy the public space and share the economics of attention as advertising used to....
It remains a spectacular way to dig into a cultural material. ...
911 BAD MAD GLAD SAD...
MUSEALL, Dispositif Educatif Muséographique Artistique Numérique et Documentaire ...
Interactive art environment about ecological design ...
Displays in real time the stock valuation readouts next to emotional currents...
La Météo des émotions du monde (Emotion Forecast sur écran géant durant Show Off / La FIAC 2011...
"The Maieutic Engine, beyond recommendation in cultural data" Conference Museum and the Web, Hong Kong, 2013 Maurice Benayoun, Hong Kong The maieutic engine considers the user as the best filter of its desires and expectations in terms of cultural heritage and image discovery. Based on implicit queries, formal...