Maurice Benayoun

Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen or 莫奔) (born 29 March 1957) is a French pioneer, contemporary new-media artist, curator and theorist based in Paris and Hong Kong.[1] His work employs various media, including (and often combining) video, computer graphics, immersive virtual reality, the Internet, performance, EEG, 3D Printing, large-scale urban media art installations and interactive exhibitions. Often conceptual, Maurice Benayoun's work constitutes a critical investigation of the mutations in the contemporary society induced by the emerging or recently adopted technologies.

Maurice Benayoun
Maurice Benayoun in 2000
Born	Maurice Benayoun (1957-03-29) 29 March 1957 Mascara, French Algeria
Education	Pantheon-Sorbonne University
Known for	New Media Art
Notable work	Quarxs (1991) Tunnel under the Atlantic (1995) World Skin, a Photo Safari in the Land of War (1997)
Awards	Golden Nica Ars Electronica 1998, Chevalier des Arts et Lettres 2000, Siggraph 1991, Villa Medicis hors les murs, 1993, Imagina, 1993, International Monitor Awards...
Website	www.benayoun.com

Biography

Born in Mascara, Algeria in March 1957, from a father killed before his birth in the Algerian independence war. He moved to France in 1958, following his mother and his brother, to live in popular suburbs in north Paris where the family stayed during most of his childhood.

Video art and computer graphics

Taught in Contemporary and Fine Arts, Benayoun's practice rapidly moved to photography, video and computer graphics. In the 1980s, Benayoun directed video installations and short videos about contemporary artists, including Daniel Buren (1983), Jean Tinguely, Sol LeWitt and Martial Raysse (1985). He keeps from is Fine Arts background, a critical and conceptual approach of practice. In 1987 he co-founds Z-A Production (1987-2003), an innovative computer graphics and Virtual Reality private lab, that became one of the leading companies in France in the field during this pioneering time. This is where he started exploring the potential of the most advanced media. Between 1990 and 1993, Benayoun collaborated with Belgian graphic novelist François Schuiten on Quarxs, the first animation series made of HD computer graphics, exploring variant creatures with alternate physical laws.[2]. From the pilot (1991) to the series broadcast in prime time in 1993, Quarxs received numerous international awards.

Interactive Art, Virtual and Augmented Reality

In 1993, he received the Villa Medicis Hors Les Murs award for his Art After Museum project, a virtual reality contemporary art collection. After 1994 Benayoun was involved with more virtual-reality and interactive-art installations. One important work from this period includes The Tunnel under the Atlantic, completed in 1995. For his first solo show, Maurice Benayoun, was presenting a Virtual Reality installation linking two big museums: the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal.[3] More than a technical performance, that it was too as the first intercontinental virtual reality artwork (called "televirtuality", Philippe Quéau, 1994), this installation was one-of-a-kind example of what Maurice Benayoun calls architecture of communication, another way to explore the limits of communication presaging the rise of the phatic in human communication.

World Skin, a Photo Safari in the Land of War, created together with the composer Jean-Baptiste Barrière, is an immersive installation often presented as a reference in virtual art. One of the first virtual reality work with a specific content: the relation between, war, personal engagement, and memory, World Skin was awarded the Golden Nica, Ars Electronica 1998, the major distinction in interactive arts.

World Skin (1997), Maurice Benayoun's Virtual Reality Interactive Installation

Interactive exhibition design

The Navigation Room (1997, exhibition New Image, New Networks) and The Membrane (2001) were created for the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris. The Navigation Room, could be considered as the prototype of the interactive educative exhibition, deeply immersive, with highly personalized visits and content generating a web page dedicated to each visitor. The Membrane (2001) — the core of the exhibition Man Transformed — was a large surface breathing and feeling the presence of the visitors, digesting and distributing information in constant physical dialog with the public. Benayoun defined this as organic design. The Panoramic Tables for the Planet of Visions pavilion for Hanover EXPO2000, directed by François Schuiten, was an innovative application of augmented reality. In 2006, with the architect Christophe Girault, they created War and Peace, the permanent exhibition inside the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, that opened in February 2007. War and Peace questioned the significance of a national monument dedicated to Napoleon's Army. The exhibition was destroyed in fall 2018, during the Yellow vest movement in Paris. After Art Impact (Pompidou Center, Paris, 2000) where he used for the first time VR binoculars to share the experience of watching (the Collective Retinal Memory) Benayoun conceived and directed the exhibition Cosmopolis, Overwriting the City (2005), a large scale art and science immersive installation presented during the French Year in China in Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, and Chongqing. This immersive exhibition received in Shanghai up to more than ten thousand visitors per day. This was Maurice Benayoun's first experience in China, and the reception by the public played an important role in later Benayoun's move to Asia[4]. Benayoun initiated in 2005 the series of works Mechanics of Emotions presents the Internet as the world nerve system and world emotions as a possible material for the new metaphoric model of the economy. In this series, Benayoun produced many installations and urban art projects during the 10 years that followed.

Urban Media Art

Benayoun started to work on urban media in 2002, with Watch Out! in Seoul, an urban installation about surveillance commissioned by the Art Center Nabi. In 2008, he exhibits in Shanghai streets NeORIZON, a large scale urban installation that converts the public into QR codes that become the building blocks of the city. From the series Mechanics of Emotions, he produced many urban screen artworks, Emotion Forecast (2011, Paris, 2012 New York, São Paulo, Berlin, Melbourne, Hong Kong). To extend his vision of Urban Media Art, Maurice Benayoun launched in 2014, as a curator, the Open Sky Project, inviting artists (the Open Sky Gallery), and MFA students (the Open Sky Campus) to conceive and present works for one of the largest screens in the world at the time, the Hong Kong ICC media façade (70,000 sqm). This program offered to more than 100 artists and students, the opportunity to exhibit their work in the public space. The ICC media façade represents about half the surface of the Hong Kong Skyline video displays.

Education, teaching, and lectures

To finance his studies, he became in 1978, a secondary school teacher in fine arts and literature. Benayoun graduated in Fine Arts (Pantheon-Sorbonne University) in the early 1980s, when he was already teaching full-time. He was awarded in 1982 with Aggregation d’Arts Plastiques, a highly competitive degree in the French education system leading to a tenure position, opening the doors of University teaching. From 1984 to 2010 he was an assistant professor at Paris 1 University, Pantheon-Sorbonne, where he was co-founder and art director of the CITU research center (Création Interactive Transdisciplinaire Universitaire) together with Paris 8 University. CiTu, dedicated to research and creation (R&C) in the emerging forms of art, is where he developed many National, European and International collaborative Art and Science research programs. In 1995 – 1997, Benayoun was the Invited Artist and Professor at ENSBA, the French National School of Fine Arts. In 2008 Maurice Benayoun submitted his blog, The Dump, a dump of undone art projects, as a doctorate thesis entitled: Artistic Intentions at Work, Hypothesis for Committing Art at Université Paris 1, La Sorbonne. Supervised by Prof. Anne-Marie Duguet, the PhD thesis was awarded "mention très honorable, avec felicitations du jury" (First-Class Honors with Distinction). The defense in front of an international examination panel, published in 2011[5], was a performance fully video recorded.

In 2010, Benayoun became an associate professor at Paris 8 University, where he founds (2011) H2H Lab (the Human to Human Lab), a cluster of public and private labs envisioning art as an advanced form of human mediations. The same year he co-founds Arts-H2H Labex (Lab of Excellence) a research lab lead by Paris 8 University. In August 2012, he becomes full Professor in the School of Creative Media of City University of Hong Kong. He is Chair of the School of Graduate Studies and the PhD programme (2014-2018).

Maurice Benayoun gave more than 300 invited and Keynote lectures in major universities and international conferences. This includes Columbia University, Cornell, Duke, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, SFAI, Parsons School of Design, University of Toronto, UCL, Goldsmiths, Ecole Polytechnique, ENS Ulm, Keio University, Central Academy of Fine Arts, to name but a few.

Key concepts

Critical Fusion

Maurice Benayoun calls Fusion the mix of Fiction and Reality. It leads to what Guy Debord calls the Society of the Spectacle. Metaphorically, the name is inspired by a compound of Critical Mass and Nuclear Fusion, 'Critical Fusion' is the practice of Fusion when the introduction of Fiction is a way to make visible the invisible instead of hiding the reality: "the fusion of fiction and reality to decipher the world".[6][7]

History of the concept: Maurice Benayoun first introduced the concept of Critical Fusion to define his action in the virtual or physical public space. Watch Out! in the streets of Seoul (2002), helps people understand that they are at the same time Big Brother and his victims. Other works like NeORIZON in Shanghai and All the series Mechanics of Emotions, even online are considered based on the same principle: Using facts, data, to present the emotional state of the World in the future (Emotions Forecast, 2011).

Urban Cosmetics

Maurice Benayoun talks about Urban Cosmetics when the work of the artist attempts to beautify the City through entertainment and decoration. Urban Cosmetics is the opposite of Critical Fusion.

History of the concept: The concept of Urban Cosmetics was first introduced during the ISEA Conference in Sydney, 2013. The conference was held during the Vivid Sydney festival. This concept became instrumental in legitimating the artist's intervention in the public space, to describe what should be avoided, or simply not considered as a consistent artistic practice.

the Global Body

After Marshall McLuhan's Global Village, the status of human interactions has been altered by the development of information networks. Maurice Benayoun presents the Internet as the World Nervous System. Any of the connected people become like nerve endings, capturing, transmitting and sharing information. The interconnected world becomes equivalent to a Global Body. Anything affecting a part of the body is immediately felt by the entire body.

History of the concept: The concept is frequently used by Benayoun since 2008.[8]

Extended Relativity

A model from physics to understand the process of subjective data mining and urban navigation. This model allowed Maurice Benayoun to create KITSUN, a subjectivity based compass for urban survival. He wrote two papers together with his homonym Maurice Benayoun, an eminent nuclear Physics scientist.[9] Benayoun coined the name Web Cubed or Web³ (Urban Web Cube project, 2010) to express the next level in the evolution of technologies, from Web 2.0, Web 3.0 (localized), the Web³ integrated the subjectivity in the dimensions of the mobile networks.

Neuro-design

Neuro-design is a method of design based on BCI, Brain-Computer Interaction. The Neuro-design is not the projection of mental images from the brain to machines but the assessment of dynamic forms through the observation of the designer's positive or negative emotions during the biofeedback process. Neuro-design is a form of physically-passive interaction based on a feedback loop between the computer-generated shape, considered as an artificial life form, and the brain considered as the ecosystem where the form should evolve to survive. The transmission of the resulting shape from one user another is a form of inheritance, and the dominant shape descriptors are inherited by the following designer creating a chain of iterations supposed to convert gradually an individual design into a collective process based on the participative assessment of the resulting shape.

History of the concept: The concept has been developed while working on the Brain Factory project (Hong Kong, 2014), an extension of the Big Reificator Project (Paris, 2011). Value of Values, Transactional art on the Blockchain, 2019, is also based on Neuro-Design.

Sublimation vs Reification[10]

Maurice Benayoun identified two main trends determining the evolution of the human experience confronted to materiality. Borrowing the term from chemistry, Sublimation is the operation converting the world into data that can be treated at the same time by natural or artificial intelligence. This allows the cognitive integration of the physical as well as its absolute control. Coming from Karl Marx, Reification is the conversion of thoughts into objects. The process requires EEG (Electro Encephalography) and BCI (Brain-Computer Interaction) in association with construction technologies like 3D Printing.

History of the concept: These concepts contributed to the theoretical foundations of the series of works the Big Reificator that became later the Brain Factory developed in collaboration with Tobias Klein.

Maieutic Engine

In 2011, a research project initiated by Maurice Benayoun, Egonomy developed the technology behind the Maieutic Engine, an intuitive search engine based on behavior analysis and non-declarative queries. The Maieutic Engine is inspired by Socrates' Gnothi Seauton (in Greek, 'know thyself'). The user is invited to explore a huge database of images and the engine gradually refines the recommendation. The Maieutic Engine is based on an n-dimensional vectorial database. The user follows ones inclination like the water following the line of greater slope. Applications include the image database of the French Réunion des Musées Nationaux with more than 800,000 pictures from the French National museums.

History of the concept: The origin of Egonomy comes back to 1995, when Maurice Benayoun was conceiving the Tunnel under the Atlantic. Virtually digging into a database of images, the visitors improved gradually the quality of their finds. Back then, this first engine was called Gadevu, from the Quebec expression arrangé par le gars des vues meaning: 'made to succeed like in a movie'. This intuitive recommendation engine based on serendipity, became later Egonomy. The research program included many partners like the Pompidou Centre, Paris 8 and Lyon 2 universities and the CEA (French National Atomic Research Center).

Transactional Aesthetics

Transactional aesthetics is an art practice based on using the exchange, the transaction of information material, process, data, artworks, as a medium. [11]

History of the concept: Maurice Benayoun developed the concept around the IN OUT project (2008), a participative experiment based on "connective creation" or "Peer to Peer" creation. With the development of the online, on-site project, it became soon The Art Collider, "a network of artworks" involving SFAI, San Francisco Art Institute, UC Berkeley, Cornell University and many other international partners such as ΑΑΟ project, Lina Stergiou, making artworks that feed each other, questioning the concept of intellectual property and ex nihilo creation.[12]

Related projects Other project like the Dump, and the Opendump, online platforms to share undone art projects, even inviting artists to realize the already published project are typical Transactional Aesthetics. Ecosmosis interactive installation environment and Social Collider interactive urban actions envision how human transactions, aesthetic and social paradigms can be carefully and openly reconsidered, with the latter being the recipient of Athens Think-Tank Award, Municipality of Athens (AAO project 2012). Later, VoV, The Values of Values (2018) Blockchain-based Crypto Currency art project is probably the most explicit transactional art project.

Open Media

From the year 2000, considered his works as a form of Open Media Art, paraphrasing Jon Ippolito, not limited to the traditional forms, media and economic schemes of art, but necessarily based on a specific medium, digital or using technologies. Open takes ici the sense of freedom in the means of expression.[13]

Infra-realism

(Infra-realisme in French, could be interpreted as 'sub-realism') has been coined in the early 90s to describe the specificity of the new form of realism emerging from 3D computer graphics.

History of the concept: During the production of Quarxs (1989–1993), the author, new media artist and theorist Maurice Benayoun intended to make the difference between visual realism based on the transcription of how the world reflects light, and what he called Infra-realism, or "realism of the depth" or "the deep realism behind the surface"[14] where, beyond the perceptive appearance, shapes stem from the application of principles coming from physics, optics, chemistry or biology. We could call this procedural, parametric, generative, or biomimetic simulation. To illustrate the concept, Maurice Benayoun used during his talks and lectures, to differentiate visually represented water - as light effects that can be translated into shades or colors - and the same effects generated thanks to fluid simulation and light propagation algorithms. 3D graphics allow to "simulate" clouds, water, smoke but also behavior like flocks of birds or fishes... Even light reflection becomes an application of physical phenomenons. more than the automatization of visual analogy as practiced by painters and photographers, 3D computer graphics realism becomes an activation of the sub-layer of reality.

In virtual reality and augmented reality

Based on real time graphics, virtual reality and augmented reality make an extensive use of infra-realism. The VR artworks created after 1993 by Maurice Benayoun like "Is the Devil Curved" or the "Tunnel under the Atlantic" often refer to the concept of infra-realism even regarding the use of artificial intelligence.

SAS

In a seminal text, Art After Museum (1993), Benayoun coins SAS as any kind of interface that allows to go from the physical space to the virtual Reality space. Explaining the technology may evolve, but the necessity to have a transition from the "real" to the space of fiction that we call "Virtual Reality". SAS is a French word coming from the Latin, that designs the apparatus that allows us to go from a human-compatible space to a more "hostile" environment. The airlock system in a submarine, or the double door system in a bank are a "sas". So are the CAVE VR system or the VR Head Mounted Display.[15] The SAS Cube created in 2000–2001, was the first PC based cube of Virtual Reality.

Behavioural Design

In 2003, Benayoun presents in Marseilles, France, a performance/conference anticipating the future of the Internet of Objects, IoT. He describes the behavior of objects in our environment that have a strong social impact and alter deeply our daily life. He suggests avoiding an excessive submissive behavior that would amplify our natural inclinations and limit the potential of the unexpected. In an ironic fictional research project, He proposes the creation of an "Integrated Psychic Disorder Generator".[16] The Behavioural Design is the design of connected and AI-driven objects based on social concerns and artificial life models.

H2H, Human to Human

In reaction to the excessive use of acronyms such as B2B (Business to Business) and B2C (Business to Consumer) that reduces human interactions to mere commercial transactions, Benayoun proposes to consider mediated interactions as H2H: Human to Human generalizing the use of the acronym to all human mediations. He contributed to the definition of the Lab of excellence of Paris 8 university naming it "ARTS H2H".

Selected awards

The Tunnel under the Atlantic (1995), Maurice Benayoun's Virtual Reality Interactive Installation

Cosmopolis (2005), Maurice Benayoun's large scale Virtual Reality Interactive Installation

• Prix ARS ELECTRONICA Visionary Pioneer of Media Art (nomination), 2014
• SACD Award, Interactive Arts, Paris, June 2009
• Qwartz Award, digital art, Paris, April 2009
• Golden Nica (first prize), interactive art category, ARS ELECTRONICA Festival, Linz, Austria, 1998
• Honorary Mention, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, April 1995
• Jose Abel Prize, Best European animation film, Cinanima, Animation Film Festival of Espinho, Portugal, October 1994
• Silver Trophy, Espace Creation, F.A.U.S.T., Toulouse, November 1994
• Distinction (2nd prize), ARS ELECTRONICA Festival, Linz, Austria, June 1994
• Best Electronic Special Effects, International Monitor Awards, Los Angeles, 1993
• Best Video Paint Design, International Monitor Award, Los Angeles 1993
• First Prize Pixel INA, Opens Title category Imagina '93, Monte Carlo, February 1993
• First Prize, Third Dimension Award, SCAM, Paris, November 1991
• Honorary Mention, ARS ELECTRONICA Festival, Linz, Austria, September 1991
• 1st Prize, Artistic Animation category, Truevision competition, SIGGRAPH, Las Vegas, 1991

Selected works

Le Diable est-il courbe? (Is the devil curved?), 1995

• Big Questions : Is God Flat? (1994)
• Is the Devil Curved? (VR installation, 1995)
• And what about me? (Internet participative works, 1996-7)
• World Skin, a photo safari in the Land of War (1997)-Golden Nica, Ars Electronica Festival 1998
• Crossing Talks, Communication Rafting (Virtual Reality Internet installation, 1999)
• Art Impact, collective Retinal Memory (interactive installation, 2000)
• Labylogue (televirtual interactive installation, 2000)
• So.So.So., Somebody, Somewhere, Some Time (interactive installation, 2002)
• Watch Out (urban installation, 2004)
• Cosmopolis, Overwritting the City (Giant interactive installation, 2005)
• Mechanics of Emotions (series of works, 2005- )
• NeORIZON (urban interactive installation, 2008)
• Still Moving (interactive sculpture, 2008)
• The Dump (blog, 2006- )
• Last Life (online game, 2010)
• Emotion Forecast (Internet, urban screens, 2010)
• Dildomatic opera (music instrument, 2011)
• White Cube, The spirit of Contemporary Art (perfume, 2011)
• Sans Armes Citoyens (Internet collaborative work, 2011)
• Occupy Wall Screens (Urban screen, Internet real time video, 2012)
• Osmotic World (Interactive installation, exhibition, Athens, 2012)
• Tunnels around the World (Telematic installation, Seoul, San Jose, Hong Kong, Montreal 2012)
• E-SCAPE TODAY! (Urban screen, Internet, Seoul Square, Seoul, 2012)
• Color Shifts (Video loop, Show Of, Paris, 2013)
• Emotion Winds (Urban screen, Internet, Media Fest, Mumbai, 2014)
• Colors Tunnel (VR, Internet, video, Osage Gallery, HK, 2016)
• Borders Tunnel (VR, Internet, video, Osage Gallery, HK, 2016)
• Brain Factory Prototype (EEG, VR, 3D Printing, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, South Korea, 2016)
• Value of Values (EEG, VR, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, and ISEA2019 Gwangju, South Korea, June 2019)

References

Citations

1. Paul Catanese, Director's Third Dimension: Fundamentals of 3d Programming in Director 8.5, Sams Publishing, 2001, p314. ISBN 0-672-32228-5
2. Stephen Wilson, Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology, MIT Press, 2002, p705. ISBN 0-262-73158-4
3. Lars Qvortrupp, Virtual Space: Spatiality in Virtual Inhabited 3d Worlds, Springer, 2002, p222. ISBN 1-85233-516-5
4. http://www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/profile/M.BENAYOUN
5. Maurice Benayoun, The Dump, 207 Hypotheses for Committing Art, bilingual (English/French) Fyp éditions, France, July 2011, ISBN 978-2-916571-64-5
6. Maurice Benayoun, Josef Bares, Urban Media Art Paradox: Critical Fusion vs Urban Cosmetics in What Urban Media Art Can Do: Why, When, Where and How, Susa Pop, Tanya Toft, editors, AVedition publisher, 2016, pp. 81–89, 450–453, ISBN 978-3899862553
7. https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/publications/critical-fusion
8. Benayoun, M., The Nervous Breakdown of the Global Body, an Organic Model of the Connected World, in Proceedings of Futur en Seine 2009, ed. Cap Digital, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4466-7929-6.
9. Benayoun, M., Benayoun, M., IMI, James Edward, An Example of Extended Relativity Applied to Urban Navigation, in Architecture, City and Information Design, EuropIA.14, Edited by Prof. Khaldoun Zreik, publish. Europia Productions, Paris, Sept. 2014, pp. 1-14, ISBN 979-10-90094-18-5
10. http://benayoun.com/moben/2017/08/29/artificial-intelligence-all-too-human/
11. Benayoun, M., "The Art Collider, an ecosystem for transactional creation", conference Columbia University, New York City, NY, 1 February 2012
12. Benayoun, M., "Art Collider: Towards Transactional Aesthetics," in Lina Stergiou, ed., AAO Project: Ethics/Aesthetics (Athens: Benaki Museum and Papasotiriou, 2011), pp.47-59, [International Conference Proceedings] ISBN 978-960-491-026-7.
13. Timothy Murray, Derrick de Kerckhove, Oliver Grau, Kristine Stiles, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Dominique Moulon, Jean-Pierre Balpe, Maurice Benayoun Open Art, Nouvelles éditions Scala, 2011, French version, ISBN 978-2-35988-046-5
14. Madsen, Kim H., Qvortrup, Lars. "Production Methods: Behind the Scenes of Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds." Springer Science & Business Media, 6 Dec. 2012 (1st edition 2002) - pp. 53-54. ISBN 1447100638, 9781447100638
15. https://www.academia.edu/35875208/AME_ART_AFTER_MUSEUM_-_Virtual_Reality_Art_collection
16. http://benayoun.com/moben/2003/04/29/un-generateur-de-failles-psychologiques-integre/

General sources

• ADA, Archive of Digital Art, Missing Matter,
• FMX/09, Paris ACM SIGGRAPH, ZA Story, the Quarxs, God and the Devil,, 2009
• Benayoun, M.,"A Nano-Leap for Mankind" in The Dump, 207 Hypotheses for Committing Art, bilingual (English/French) Fyp éditions, France, July 2011, pp. 349–351. ISBN 978-2-916571-64-5
• Benayoun, M., , "Architecture reactive de la communication" (French), July 1998

Further reading

• Maurice Benayoun, The Dump, 207 Hypotheses for Committing Art, bilingual (English/French) Fyp éditions, France, July 2011, ISBN 978-2-916571-64-5
• Timothy Murray, Derrick de Kerckhove, Oliver Grau, Kristine Stiles, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Dominique Moulon, Jean-Pierre Balpe, Maurice Benayoun Open Art, Nouvelles éditions Scala, 2011, French version, ISBN 978-2-35988-046-5
• Maurice Benayoun, Josef Bares, Urban Media Art Paradox: Critical Fusion vs Urban Cosmetics in What Urban Media Art Can Do: Why, When, Where and How, Susa Pop, Tanya Toft, editors, AVedition publisher, 2016, pp. 81–89, 450–453, ISBN 978-3899862553
• Benayoun, M., The Nervous Breakdown of the Global Body, an Organic Model of the Connected World, in Proceedings of Futur en Seine 2009, ed. Cap Digital, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4466-7929-6.
• Sara and Tom Pendergast, Contemporary Artists St James Press, 2001, pp. 155–158, ISBN 1-55862-407-4
• Peter Weibel, Jeffrey Shaw, Future Cinema, MIT Press 2003, pp. 472,572-581, ISBN 0-262-69286-4
• Oliver Grau, Virtual Art, from Illusion to Immersion, MIT Press 2004, pp. 237–240, ISBN 0-262-57223-0,
• Frank Popper, From Technology to Virtual Art, MIT Press 2005, pp. 201–205, ISBN 0-262-16230-X
• Derrick de Kerckhove, The Architecture of Intelligence, Birkhäuser 2005, pp. 40,48,51,73, ISBN 3-7643-6451-3
• Gerfried Stocker and Christine Schöpf, Flesh Factor, Ars Electronica Festival 1997, Verlag Springer 1997, pp. 312–315
• Fred Forest Art et Internet, Editions Cercle D'Art / Imaginaire Mode d'Emploi, pp. 61 – 63
• Christine Buci-Glucksmann, "L’art à l’époque virtuel", in Frontières esthétiques de l’art, Arts 8, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2004
• Dominique Moulon Moulon.net, Conférence Report: Media Art in France, Un Point d'Actu, L'Art Numerique, p. 123
• Barbara Robertson CGW.com, Without Bounds in CGW volume 32 issue 4 April 2009
• Dominique Moulon, Art Contemporain, Nouveaux Médias, Nouvelles éditions Scala, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-35988-038-0

External links

• Official website
• Official Blog/creation The Dump

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