Conceptual art without ideas
May 26, 2007: talk about my work at the WebFlashFestival – Expérimentations, Beaubourg Centre Pompidou.
L’hallucination collective nous conduit-elle vers une privatisation du regard ? Le Web 2.0 est-il un club sado-masochiste ? Qu’est-ce que le “capitalisme sémantique” et quel est le prix d’un mot sur Google ? La colonisation de l’intime va-t-elle sauver le système-monde ?
May 11-13, 2007: as winner of the ARCO new media prize 2007, Fascinum is exhibited at Observatori, 8º Festival Internacional de Investigación Artística de Valencia.
Fascinum is an Internet installation that shows the pictures from the daily news that are the most viewed (ranked from 1 to 10) on different national Yahoo websites, in real time. The viewer surfs on the infotainment tsunami and experiences the paradoxes of global thinking in a blink.
I’m interviewed by Giulia Simi in the italian magazine digicult.it. Here is the interview in english:
How Logo.Hallucination idea was born?
Up to now many of my work were dealing with questions of language and globalization, commodification of speech (http://www.iterature.com/adwords) etc., and I felt that I had to move more deeply towards a field closer to the question of the image, but in relation to similar questionings.
Christophe Bruno 