15 Jun

Posted at 16:26h in Installations, Interactive 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...

29 May

Posted at 12:49h in Internet, Video

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...

23 Mar

Posted at 09:17h in Exhibition, Urban Media

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...

28 Oct

Posted at 15:24h in Installations, Interactive Art

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...

16 Apr

Posted at 13:58h in Video

The French blue-white-red Cocarde represent simultaneously the Revolution and the Republic. Motion and institution. Values come with colors....

29 Mar

Posted at 12:54h in Video

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...

13 Dec

Posted at 00:57h in Museography, Museum Design

"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...

18 Jan

Posted at 20:24h in Museum Design

MoBen's proposal for the call from the Centre of Attention, for the "Pavillon of Post-Contemporary Curating", to become the new Sutton Scarsdale Hall. "Sutton Scarsdale Hall in Derbyshire is to become the pavilion of post contemporary curating. It will be a base for new ways oflooking...