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...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Emotions Spotting Performance, DEAF Festival, Interact or Die! Staal, Rotterdam, V2_ 25th anniversary April 2007, Playing instruments is a common lot of music. Playing with emotions is a common lot of politics and entertainment. Considering the Net as the World nervous system, checking the news on the Web becomes...