Logo.Hallucination deals with the question of privatization of the glance in relation to collective hallucination.
An image recognition software based on neural networks continuously monitors the images circulating on the Web looking for hidden logos and sends cease & desist emails whenever a copyright violation is detected.
Here is the link to the online project
The project wad conceived for the Rencontres Paris-Berlin 2006 and has received a grant from the DICREAM (Aide à la production – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication – CNC). Concept: Christophe Bruno – programming: Valeriu Lacatusu
Exhibitions:
March 5 – 15, 2008: Vooruit Art Center, Gent (Belgium), The Game is up – Art For Sale with Matthieu Laurette, Etoy.corporation, Heath Bunting, Carlos Katastrofsky, Christophe Bruno, Julian Dibbell, Reverend Billy, Billboard Liberation Front and Andrea Crews
Oct 6 – Nov. 3, 2007: exhibited at Gallery West, The Hague. A group-show cur. by the contemporary art magazine vvork, including the work of Bad Beuys Entertainment (FR), John Michael Boling (USA), Christophe Bruno (FR), Anetta Mona Chisa (RO) & Lucia Tkacova (SK), collectif_fact (CH), Katerina Matsoukis (GR), Haroon Mirza (UK), Julien Prévieux (FR), Arin Rungjang (TH) & Damon Zucconi (USA).
Aug. 11th – Oct. 7th, 2007: Logo.Hallucination is exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Taipei. MOCA Taipei presents the exhibition ZONE V2_ curated by Alex Adriaansens, summing up the last three major themes of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF): ‘Machine Times’, ‘Information is Alive’ and ‘Interact or Die!’. The list of exhibited artists includes: ////////fur////, Jens Brand, Shane Cooper, Christophe Bruno, Lynn Hershman, Joyce Hinterding, David Haines, Ryoji Ikeda, George Legrady, Zachary Lieberman, Marnix de Nijs, David Rokeby, Staalplaat Soundsystem, Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek, Ubermorgen, Alessandro Ludovico, Paolo Cirio, Herwig Weiser and Zhou Hongxiang.
Apr. 28 – May 5, 2007: Logo.Hallucination is exhibited at the Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin pour l’art contemporain et le nouveau cinéma, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid. Curated by Jean-François Rettig & Nathalie Hénon.
April 1st 2007: Logo.Hallucination exhibited aboard the maison flottante, aconstructedworld, with curator Daniele Balit, launched the second edition of errors deceits mistakes, curated by Jacqueline Riva and Geoff Lowe (Journée hospitalités à Chatou, dans le cadre du Réseau TRAM (Réseau Art Contemporain Paris/Ile-de-France), CNEAI, Centre National de l’Estampe et de l’Art Imprimé, maison Levanneur, île des impressionnistes, 78400 Chatou, France)
March 30 to May 30, 2007: Laboral Cyberspaces, Gijon. Logo.Hallucination has been selected to the inaugural program Laboral Cyberspaces at laboral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, Gijon. The Jury was: Rosina Gómez-Baeza (Director of laboral), Gerfried Stocker (Artistic Director of the Ars Electronica Center), Christiane Paul (Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art) and Alex Adriaansens (Director of V2_, Institute for the Instable Media, Rotterdam)
February 10th 2007: DorkBot Madrid, organized by Javier Candeira
The project was first exhibited at the Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin pour l’art contemporain et le nouveau cinéma (Théâtre Paris-Villette), from Nov. 21st to Dec. 1st 2006. Curated by Jean-François Rettig et Nathalie Henon.
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