Bio

Christophe Bruno lives and works in Paris and Montpellier. His multifaceted work, which encompasses a wide range of mediums and practices (including digital media, Internet-based works, artificial intelligence, installations, performances, drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos and NFTs), offers a critical perspective on network phenomena and the globalization of language and images. He balances his time between artistic pursuits, curating, teaching, research, lectures, and publications.

From September 2022 to July 2023, he was artist-in-residence at Imera (Institute for Advanced Studies of Aix-Marseille University – “Art, Science, Society” program), where he co-founded the Xanadu gallery with artist Jeff Guess. Alongside art historian Chrystelle Desbordes, he was a laureate of the “Résidence Hors les Murs Villa Médicis 2016” program sponsored by the French Institute in the “Digital Arts” category (California). As a curator, he organized exhibitions for the Jeu de Paume’s virtual space in 2011 and 2012. He contributed to the P.A.M.A.L. Laboratory (Preservation and Art Media Archaeology Lab) during his tenure at the Avignon School of Art from 2013 to 2017. Since 2013, he’s been a guest artist for the Improbable Art Thinking workshops at the Jean-Baptiste Say Institute/ESCP Europe, collaborating on events at venues like the Pompidou Center and Grand Palais.

His work has been exhibited internationally at numerous festivals, museums, galleries, contemporary art fairs, and art centers. Notable venues include: Jeu de Paume (Paris), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), ARCo (Madrid), FIAC (Paris), Diva Art Fair (New York), ArtCologne, Biennale of Sydney, MOCA Taipei, Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, New Museum of Contemporary Art (New-York), Pompidou Center (Paris),  le 104 (Paris), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Show-Off Paris, National Museum of Contemporary Art (Athens), MNAC (Bucharest), La Panacée (Montpellier), Second Nature (Aix-en-Provence), Biennial of Contemporary Art in Tirana, Aeroplastics Gallery ( Brussels), Galerie Sollertis (Toulouse), Gallery West (The Hague), SMAK (Ghent), NIMk (Amsterdam), Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid, HMKV (Dortmund), Share Festival (Turin) , Transmediale (Berlin), Laboral Cyberspaces (Gijon), Vooruit Arts Center (Ghent), ICC (Tokyo), Nuit Blanche de Paris, File Festival (São Paulo)…

Over the years, he has delivered numerous lectures at esteemed institutions, universities and higher education establishments, such as Collège de France, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Stanford University, Université Paris Sorbonne, IRCAM, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Jeu de Paume, Transmediale Berlin, La Gaîté Lyrique and many others.

Awards/fellowships

  • Imera, Institute for Advanced Studies of Aix-Marseille University, “Art, Science, Society”, 2022/2023
  • DICRéAM (CNC-Ministry of Culture and Communication), 2019
  • ARCADI Ile-de-France, 2018
  • Residence “hors-les-murs” Villa Medici 2016 of the French Institute, “Digital Arts”, California
  • DICRéAM (CNC-Ministry of Culture and Communication), 2012
  • Winner of the 2007 ARCo New Media Prize at the Madrid Contemporary Art Fair
  • Winner of the Share Festival 2007, Torino
  • DICRéAM (CNC-Ministry of Culture and Communication), 2006
  • CNAP (Centre National des Arts Plastiques), aid for the first exhibition, 2006
  • DICRéAM (CNC-Ministry of Culture and Communication), 2004
  • Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2003, Linz

Research and teaching

From 2013 to 2016 he taught art and new media at the École Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon, where he was researcher at P.A.M.A.L. Laboratory (Preservation & Art, Media Archaeology Lab).
Since 2014, he teaches at ESCP Europe (Improbable / Art Thinking workshops).
List of teaching positions:  ÉSA Avignon, ESCP Europe, Science Po Paris, Icart, Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Université Paris 1 Sorbonne, Ecole Centrale Paris, SupDeWeb, Hetic, Greta…
Workshops (selection): Beaux-Arts de Paris, Cergy, Annecy, Valence, Toulouse, Poitiers, Quimper, Lorient, Grand Palais, Gaîté Lyrique, Centre Pompidou, Université Rennes 2, Académie Charpentier…

Full list of works

  • Dreamlogs (2003-2023), in reactivation
  • A.A. VS. A.A. (2023)
  • Transincarnations (2023)
  • Planck Pixel (2022)
  • Machine, Being and Nothingness (2019-2021), ongoing
  • The Breath of History (2020)
  • Dual Paintings (2015-2016), ongoing
  • Expansion-Recession 1929-1979-2029 (2015)
  • Semiography (2013-2021) – with Chrystelle Desbordes, ongoing
  • Post-network neo-topologies (2013-2021), ongoing
  • Information Tragedy, a topology (2013) – with Cécile Noguès
  • ArtWar(e) (2012-2014) – with Samuel Tronçon & Chrystelle Desbordes, discontinued
  • Non-conservation laws (2010), ongoing
  • Mapping the void (2008) – with Pessi Parviainen
  • The Dadameter (2008)
  • Logo.Hallucination (2006)
  • Global Artists (2004-2010)
  • Human Browser (2004 – 2016)
  • WiFi-SM (2003-2006)
  • (In)human Sciences (2006)
  • Blood For Sale (2004)
  • Hapax (2002)
  • GogolChat (2002) – with Jimpunk, no longer in use (under maintainance)
  • Google Adwords Happening (2002)
  • Life (2002), no longer in use
  • Non-weddings (2002), no longer in use (under maintainance)
  • Fascinum (2001)
  • Epiphanies (2001)

Curating

From September 2022 to July 2023, he was artist-in-residence at Imera (Institute for Advanced Studies of Aix-Marseille University – “Art, Science, Society” program), where he co-founded the Xanadu gallery with artist Jeff Guess

From March 2011 to September 2012, he was appointed curator for the Virtual Space of the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris, where he curated three exhibitions:

  • Identités précaires, with 0100101110101101.ORG, Anonymous, La Barbe, Aram Bartholl, Luther Blissett, Heath Bunting, Dick head man Records, Etoy, Iocose, Julien Levesque, Les Liens Invisibles, Michael Mandiberg, Moddr_, Mouchette, Cornelia Sollfrank, Yes Men.
  • Blow-up (co-curated with Daniele Balit), with Natasha Rosling, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Carlo Steiner, Charlie Jeffery, Didier Courbot, Dora García, Jimpunk. Some of the artistic projects have benefited from the support of Dicréam. With the participation of resurgences.eu and wsb-agency.com.
  • Form@ts, with  Vuk Ćosić, F.A.T. Lab, Magic Ring, Miltos Manetas, Rob Myers, Slub. With the collaboration of Samuel Tronçon and Chrystelle Desbordes.

Oct. 6 2007, curator for Second Night with Daniele Balit, Nuit Blanche de Paris on Second Life. Internet users worldwide took part in the Nuit Blanche organized by the Paris local council.

  • Second Night was displayed both on Second Life and at Hôtel d’Albret, Paris. Works by Andreas Angelidakis, Christophe Bruno, David Guez, Agnès de Cayeux, Claude Closky, Alain Della Negra, Kaori Kinoshita, Yona Friedman, Valéry Grancher, Etienne Joubert, Miltos Manetas, Second Front.

Link to full bio (in French)