Baiona, 1964.
Christophe Bruno
He was awarded the Prix Ars Electronica in 2003 and the Piemonte Share Festival prize in 2007.
His work has been shown internationally at institutions and fairs including Jeu de Paume in Paris, ARCO Madrid, FIAC Paris, Diva Fair in New York, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, ArtCologne, MOCA Taipei, the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, the Sydney Biennale, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Athens, SMAK in Ghent, NIMk Amsterdam, galerie Aeroplastics Brussels, the Tirana Biennial of Contemporary Art, HMKV Dortmund, Gallery West in The Hague, Vooruit Arts Centre in Ghent, the Share Festival in Turin, Transmediale in Berlin, Laboral Cyberspaces in Gijón, galerie Sollertis in Toulouse, ICC in Tokyo, Nuit Blanche in Paris, the FILE Festival in São Paulo, the Centre Pompidou for the Rencontres Paris-Berlin-Madrid, f.2004@Shanghai, the ReJoyce Festival in Dublin, P0es1s.net in Berlin, the Microwave Media Art Festival in Hong Kong, the Read_Me Festival in Dortmund and Aarhus, and Vidarte in Mexico City, among others.
He divides his time between artistic practice, curatorial work, teaching, lectures, and publications. Since October 2013 he has been teaching art and new media at the École Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon.
His work “Fascinum” won the 2nd edition of the ARCO-BEEP Electronic Art Award.
Work in the collection: Fascinum
https://christophebruno.com
Fascinum, 2001
The piece shows in real time the most searched-for and viewed photos on Yahoo, ranked from 1 to 100. It was a Yahoo Hack, which became a Google Hack in 2004 after Google’s IPO.
It displays in real time the most viewed news images across different national news channels. The viewer navigates at the crest of the infotainment wave and experiences, from a panoptic perspective, the paradoxes of mainstream thought. With a selector embedded in the Internet, it is possible to observe the most searched-for images in the USA, the UK, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and India (updated approximately every two minutes). This makes it possible to establish connections between “accounting and globalization”.