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In the age of artificial intelligence, anyone can turn a painting into a ‘realistic photograph’ — a gesture of reappropriation somewhere between pop culture and algorithmic kitsch.

Tropismes est un projet de Christophe Bruno et Chrystelle Desbordes (2024). À partir de photographies réalisées par Christophe Bruno, la critique d’art Chrystelle Desbordes donne un titre et rédige un cartel pour chacune d’elle. En parallèle, ChatGPT4 fait de même. Chacune des œuvres contient ainsi l’image photographique avec deux cartels.

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?

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.

Dreamlogs is an interdisciplinary project that aims to map the “landscape of associations of ideas” on the Web. It was reactivated at the Institute for Advanced Studies of Aix-Marseille University (Imera) in 2022/23, in a new context where LLMs such as ChatGPT, combined with a paradigm shift in neuroscience, challenge the post-truth era.

Human Browser is a series of wireless Internet performances based on a Google hack, where the usual technological interface is replaced with the oldest interface we know: the human being. It is a distant ancestor of ChatGPT — politically and aesthetically incorrect — operating at an extremely high LLM temperature.

Global index of the decay of the aura of language, the Dadameter aims at measuring our distance to Dada. It was carried out by prototyping a Large Language Model (LLM), years before they were widely used on the Internet, in order to draw cartographies of language at large scale.

The Google AdWords Happening is an internet performance that lasted 24 hours before being censored by Google. This infiltration of Google’s advertising system illustrates the transition to “semantic capitalism,” where every word in every language has a price.

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.

Post-Network Neo-Topologies are hand-made drawings that trace the complex pathways of information flows amid network capitalism and the omnipresence of big data.

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.

What if the emblematic figures of the official history of humanity were born elsewhere than where they were born, and had lived different lives?

“Planck Pixel” is defined as the smallest possible SCAM you can buy on a NFT platform.

Questioning the boundary between analog and digital in the field of media archaeology, Tetris Cinema reconstructs fragments of the history of cinema, thanks to the mythical game of Tetris.

Google Moon is a photomontage. The romantically inspired image is reminiscent of “Google’s twilight”, placing the logo in a dark sky.

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.

For the 2013 edition of the Show-Off Art Fair, the artists Christophe Bruno and Cécile Noguès cross their practice around the “informational tragedy.”

Logo.Hallucination deals with the question of privatization of the glance in relation to collective hallucination.

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!

Non-weddings is the first Google Hack for Image Search. I made it after realizing that image search engines on the Internet had certain similarities with a small drawing by Jacques Lacan from 1957 (“L’instance de la lettre dans l’inconscient”, Ecrits, Editions du Seuil).