Artworks
Machine, Being and Nothingness (2019-2022)
Being, Machine and Nothingness (2019-2022) is a series of paintings and drawings produced in collaboration with various Artificial Intelligences and art historian Chrystelle Desbordes. The project plays with the new machinic academicism by creating frictions and amalgams in the history of art, thanks to a naive and joyful practice of Deep Learning.
Dual Paintings (2014)
The Dual Paintings series unveils the networked structure of the space-time of color. Each diptych relates an emblematic painting with its associated colored graph, which connects areas of similar colors to each other. The work establishes a duality between the continuous, analog space of color, and the finitude of digital networks.
Google Adwords Happening (2002)
The Google Adwords Happening: how a global happening on Google unveiled the Generalized Semantic Capitalism.
Human Browser (2004 – 2017)
Human Browser is a series of Wi-Fi performances based on a Google Hack, where the usual technological interface is replaced with the oldest interface we know: the human being.
Epiphanies (2001)
My first net.art piece, Epiphanies is a conceptual Google Hack remixed with James Joyce’s definition of the epiphany. It is one of the very first pieces of “Google Art”.
Non-weddings (2002)
Non-weddings is a Google Hack I made after realizing that the Internet image search engines had some similarities with a small drawing by Jacques Lacan in “L’instance de la lettre dans l’inconscient”
The Dadameter (2008)
Global index of the decay of the aura of language, the Dadameter aims at measuring our distance to Dada. It was inspired by the work of the french writer Raymond Roussel.
Logo.Hallucination (2006)
Logo.Hallucination deals with the question of privatization of the glance in relation to collective hallucination.
Google Moon (2015)
Google Moon is a photomontage. The romantically inspired image is reminiscent of “Google’s twilight”, placing the logo in a dark sky.
WiFi-SM (2003-2006)
You have the impression that the disasters of the world do not touch you anymore? You feel vaguely sorry for other people’s misfortunes but you don’t feel the inner urge which used to make you help your neighbour? WiFi-SM is the solution!
Information Tragedy (2013)
For the 2013 edition of the Show-Off Art Fair, the artists Christophe Bruno and Cécile Noguès cross their practice around the “informational tragedy.”
Planck Pixel (2022)
“Planck Pixel” is defined as the smallest possible SCAM you can buy on a NFT platform: https://rarible.com/token/0xc9154424B823b10579895cCBE442d41b9Abd96Ed:58727675758041423256340162348757380850844420513095450253614757717091649847297
The Breath of History 1929/1979/2029 (2015-2020)
The Breath of History 1929/1979/2029 (2015-2020) is a series of ink drawing on sculptures made out of tam tam stools, related to Kondratiev long-wave cycles of capitalism.
Fascinum (2001)
Fascinum is a Yahoo Hack, that became a Google Hack in 2004 after Google’s IPO. It shows in real-time the news pictures the most viewed on different national news feeds. The viewer surfs at the top of the infotainment wave and experiments in a panoptic view the paradoxes of one-track thinking.
Transincarnations (2023)
What if the emblematic figures of the official history of humanity had been born somewhere else where they were born, and had simultaneously lived different parallel lives…?
Post-network neo-topologies (2013-2022)
Post-network neo-topologies are hand-made data drawings, or “data drawings without data”, in relation to global topologies of semio-organic networks.
A.A. vs. A.A. (2023)
This mise en abyme of the question of the monochrome in the era of the “prompt”, borrows the form of Alphonse Allais’ Album Primo-Avrilesque to bring a firm and definitive answer to the question: should artists fear Artificial Intelligence?
Christophe Bruno 