12 Mar Morphogenesis of Values show tour by MoBen
The complete tour of the show at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center presenting the new developments of the Transactional Art Project Value of Values, combining Blockchain, AI, NFTs, EEG, BCI, 3D Printing, and online trading with Tobias Klein, Nicolas Mendoza, Jean-Baptist Barrière. produced by...
29 Oct Reification of Values
VoV Reifications, 2 sculptures by Tobias Klein - Generosity0001 and Openness0001 - 3D printed out of Tobias' VoV collection. In the back, The "Footprint of Freedom" by MoBen...
29 Oct City Ads Values
Video loop, digital editing. Introduced for the first time during the Morphogenesis of Values exhibition, Chantal Miller Gallery, Asia Society Hong Kong Center produced by Osage Art Foundation. City Ads Values is part of the Value of Values project. City Ads Values video shows how the city designs and prescribes...
29 Oct The Interpreters
AI-Generated videos + Video display The Reader AI: Can we read the human brain? Observing the VoV token, the 'Reader' recognized words. Considering the freshly neuro-designed VoV models, the Reader explore them to figure out what similarities could be found between VoV characters and Chinese calligraphy, between...
29 Oct The Reader
AI program + Video display The Reader AI: Can we read the human brain? Observing the VoV token, the 'Reader' recognized words. Considering the freshly neuro-designed VoV models, the Reader explore them to figure out what similarities could be found between VoV characters and Chinese calligraphy, between...
29 Oct The Conceptual Map
Introduced for the first time during the Morphogenesis of Values exhibition, Chantal Miller Gallery, Asia Society Hong Kong Center produced by Osage Art Foundation. The Conceptual Map is part of the Value of Values project. New Media art is not about technology, it is for the artist a catalyst...
29 Oct Crypto Characters of Values
Introduced for the first time during the Morphogenesis of Values exhibition, Chantal Miller Gallery, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, and produced by Osage Art Foundation the 14 Crypto Characters are part of the Value of Values project. They are archival pigment prints on Photo rag Hahnemühle paper. PLEASURE0723 - FRIENDSHIP0783 - LOVE0182 TRUST0643 - HONESTY0753 -...
07 Sep Power Chess / Next World Forum
Maurice Benayoun, AKA MoBen, has created an original piece around sound, immersion, and experience. Power Chess presents two robots playing a game of chess unlike any other....
07 Sep Value of Values / Next World Forum
TRANSACTIONAL ART ON THE BLOCKCHAIN Maurice Benayoun, with Nicolas Mendoza and Tobias Klein. Four Seasons, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 7-8 September 2022 Human abstractions live in our mind. Human Values: LOVE, POWER, PEACE, KNOWLEDGE, are human abstractions If making art is giving shape to ideas, we can shape human values directly from...
09 Jun DïaloG in Barcelona
The Art of DïaloG: Are we immigrants in a machine World? ISEA2022 Talk June 13 Refik Anadol and Maurice Benayoun started the DïaloG project as an art experiment and an urban media art installation. Two artworks are facing each other. They are confronted with a world they don’t know,...
20 Apr High-Speed Trading of Values @ etopia_
High-Speed Trading of Values on Etopia Center for Art and Technology Zaragoza Spain, Media Façade for the "VoV, Value of Values" show. "Value of Values" (AKA VoV) is a Blockchain-based Art project....
13 Sep Cork Openings by Moben
"Galactic Wine Sharing Party" event opening video, Ars Electronica 2021 HK Garden Osage Gallery...
31 Jul Power Chess
from the Press Release by Focal/Naim, that commissioned the work Focal Powered by Naim to showcase exclusive global tour of MoBen’s interactive artwork: POWER CHESS video trailer Video documentary, Episode 1 To celebrate the roll-out of their global network of Focal Powered by Naim stores, the two leading audio brands...
20 Jun “DïaloG, first aliens encounter” by Refik Anadol and MoBen
With Refik Anadol, we did “DïaloG” for MindSpaces S+T+Arts collaborative research project. 2 strangers, aliens, immigrants, land in the public space, trying to understand the world around them, the people, so different, and eventually, they try to understand each other. ...
04 Jun DïaloG, the First Aliens’ Encounter
DïaloG The first Aliens' encounter 2021 by Refik Anadol and Maurice Benayoun Public art interactive installation, Size to be adapted to the venue (usually 2-4m/screen). 2 Video displays (projection or LED screens) Sensors, AI, real-time generative graphics, behavioral design, voice recognition, text generation, sound. Production: MoBen, Analog Native, Neuro-Design Lab, ACIM, SCM,...
17 May HK ESCAPE VIEWS – PANOPTICAL MEMORIES
Hong Kong Escape Views, Panoptical Memories by Maurice Benayoun Interactive Art Installation, 2020 Exhibition: Art Machines, Past, Present, Indra and Harry Banga Gallery, City University of Hong Kong curated by Richard Allen and Jeffrey Shaw Video editing by Charlie Yip more: ...
16 Mar VoV twodees by MoBen
2D reifications (conversion of the virtual data into a physical object) of VoV tokens for 2D printing by MoBen are called "twodies" as opposed to "Threedies" for 3D reification like sculptures, or "Vidies" for videos or animated reifications....
05 Feb Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
I died in 1927, too young to publish about my art practice. It is now time to share some of the works I produced to help art historians to figure out where I stand. Elsa F.-L. The Bachelors Stripped Bare by Their Bride, Uneven, paint on broken...
13 Sep Ars Electronica 2020, Planetary Wine Tasting Party
Part of the Ars Electronica 2020, Hong Kong Garden, this Hong Kong event is supported by osagė@osage – Live streaming event on Zoom and Youtube – 13 September 2020, Sun A specially invited group of artists, scholars, curators, and engineers will come together at Osage Gallery with their...
09 Sep HK Escape Views, Panoptical Memories
interactive 360 video of Escape Views Hong Kong Escape Views, Interactive installation, 360 videos. High-Res video panoramas of Hong Kong reveal the unseen. It is no longer about density, verticality, finance, and technology. At a time of the pandemic, places of seclusion are sought after. But...
09 Sep Ars Electronica Hong Kong Garden
Ars Electronica 2020 Hong Kong Garden full program: hkgardens.com Context: Arts Electronica 2020 is being crystalized as an experimental, de-centralized global affair, in response to the contingencies arising from the Covid-19 pandemic. Envisioning a journey toward measuring the ‘new’ world being realized today, this year’s festival extends beyond...
09 Sep DïaloG, Alien Life in the Telescope
Live experiment in progress by Maurice Benayoun and Refik Anadol for the DïaloG project, MindSpaces, S+T+Arts EU program. Live, part of Ars Electronica Festival 2020, Hong Kong, Thessaloniki, and MindSpaces Gardens. DïaloG is made of two “living” entities facing each other in the public space. They don’t look...
26 Jun The PLOT
The Plot is a series of posts on Twitter and Facebook...
06 Jun Value of Values, Transactional Art on the Blockchain (video)
"Value of Values" (AKA VoV) is a Blockchain-based art project. It combines neuro-design, 3D printing, Blockchain...
21 Oct ACM MM Art Show 2019, Nice
ACM Multimedia Art Show (ACMMM2019), Chairs: Maurice Benayoun, Nathalie Delprat, Nice, France, October 21 - 25, 2019 Artists: Refik Anadol, Jean-Marc Chomaz, Peter Nelson, Olivain Porray, Lyn Chao, Lin Chen, Cecilia Suhr, Paul Chable, Gilles Arrazo, Yvain Quéau, Axel Cartier, Jean-Denis Durou, Yen-Ting Cho, Yen-ling Kuo, Yen-Ting Yeh, Yi-Chin...
28 Nov WATCH OUT! 2018
With Watch Out! 2018, urban media art installation, eyes wide open come from the buildings to look down to us as if somebody finally dares to discover what’s humankind is doing at the ground level, in the streets of Gwangju....
23 Oct “This Torch is Now in our Hands!”
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....
08 Oct ABSTRACT SHOTS
ABSTRACT SHOTS are snapshots of numbered iterations of the Brain Factory shaping process. They are printed portraits of the unspeakable....
04 Mar Young Media Artists in China, video
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,...
03 Mar Young Media Artists in China (HK)
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....
12 Jan Brain Cloud (by Brain Factory)
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....
20 Dec Border Diggers, Nanjing – Hong Kong Tunnel
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...
12 Dec Jus Dig It! Nanjing
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....
11 Nov On the Road, Young Media Artists in China (Shenzhen)
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....
04 Nov AstriLab
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...
04 Jul The Brain Factory video trailer
"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....
12 Feb The Purloined Thought
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...
26 Dec Brain Factory Prototype 2
Interactive Installation EEG 3D Printing. Brain Factory translates human abstractions into 3D Printed objects...
26 Dec Brain Factory Prototype
Interactive Installation EEG 3D Printing. Brain Factory translates human abstractions into 3D Printed objects...
20 Apr Just Dig/It!
Exhibition at Osage Gallery Hong Kong: 5 video installations + original printed shots...
14 Mar Borders Tunnel
Virtual tunnels are made to go beyond obstacles, to allow people appart to meet in spite of any form of obstacles....
14 Mar Colors Tunnel
Interactive, VR installation, steel structure...
10 Mar Tunnel Shots
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...
22 Feb Quarxs 90s
Quarxs Series and original drawings presented in their original 90s environment during Biennale Anim ...
16 Feb White Cube 0-10 Alpha in NYC
Collective exhibition: White Cube, Essence de l'art contemporain, The spirit of contemporary art...
15 Jun The Brain Stream Factory
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...
01 Mar White Cube alpha 1-20 (The Age of Experience)
l'essence de l'art contemporain. 20 conceptual fragrances ...
14 Dec White Cube Alpha (Variation – FIAC)
The Essence of Contemporary Art, conceptual fragrance ...