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  • Pixelroller -
    PIXELROLLER VARIOUS PROTOTYPES 2005-2010 PixelRollers do exactly what their name suggests. They are performance tools for rapidly applying any pixel based graphics (user-generated content from the internet, your phone, a dedicated camera, etc)
  • A revolutionary Poetry Book, programmed in Web Based VRML and conceived for immersion. Texts translated from "Vite de la Banane", available at the New York Public Library, and the urbana Champaign Library of Illinois. Read by the author. The
  • The PERMANENT exhibition of the Arc de Triomphe conceived and directed by Maurice Benayoun and Christophe Girault, architect, is being dismantled to give place to a souvenir shop. To react to this obscene act of institutional vandalism, Maurice
  • Stolen Life -
    Two concepts have marked 21st century creation, the metaphysical consequence of which is obvious to everyone, despite their apparent differences. The first is the idea that it is the spectator who creates the picture and the second is that the
  • White Cube -
    The spirit of contemporary art Most of the sensible minds have understood, since now long, that there is no reason to produce significant artwork nor explore virgin territories. It is a fundamental fact: it has to « be like contemporary art »…as
  • L’exposition à la médiathèque George Sand présente le travail vidéo de Maurice Benayoun - La série Quarxs réalisée entre 1990 et 1993 en collaboration avec le dessinateur de bandes dessinées François Schuiten et l'écrivain Benoît Peeters. une des
  • Sans Armes Citoyens -
    Two years before the turn of the century, a committee chaired by Jean-Jacques Aillagon, at the time director of the Centre Pompidou, was entrusted with the task of defining the ceremonies to celebrate the millennium. Oddly enough, I was invited to
  • ... en fait des cocktails musicaux que l’on...
  • Step and Shoot -
    Bored by a vision of the world dominated by B2B (Business to Business) and B2C (Business to Consumer) that seem for so many people to be the only way to consider human interactions, I would like to start a series of works called H2H: Human to
  • The Dump - recyclage d’idées est une sorte de laboratoires d’idées artistiques. Les artistes ont été encouragés à prolonger les concepts d’un autre artiste, à utiliser les concepts entreposés sur le blog de Maurice Benayoun. Au lieu de recettes