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  • (in)human sciences -
    “(In)human Sciences” was made for the exhibition Neterotopia, curated by Daniele Balit and Pierre Mertens. During March 2006, my work was displayed in the advertising space of the website of the french newspaper Libération. The exhibition was also
  • wi-fi sm -
    After the the guerilla-marketing campaign for WiFi-SM was launched at the Tirana Bienniale of Contemporary Art in 2003, the real product was shown for the first time at galerie Sollertis in January 2006: the WiFi-SM patch is now for real You
  • Gogol Chat -
    The Web is a global text. The hypothetical character, whose speech tends towards this global text, the sum of all speeches of mankind, is called Gogol. Originally GogolChat was conceived as a multi-user chat where this fictitious character lives.
  • Conclusive Evidence -
    Conclusive Evidence is the title of one of Vladimir Nabokov's novels, which deals with his experience of emigration. In the Russian version, which appeared a few years later, the same novel was called Other Shores. This play on the titles is all the
  • World Wide VIP -
    Three accessories identify a VIP: his/her passport, cell phone and international credit card. One sculpture condenses these three products into one. To attain this trophy, visitors must take a journey dotted with contradictory messages vaunting the
  • The Google Adwords Happening: how a global happening on Google unveiled the Generalized Semantic Capitalism. “At the beginning of April, a debate took place on rhizome.org mailing list, about how to earn money with net art. It suggested to me an
  • Fascinum -
    Artworks Fascinum December, 2001 Fascinum is a Yahoo Hack. It shows in real-time the news pictures the most viewed (ranked from 1 to 10) on different national Yahoo portals. The viewer surfs at the top of the infotainment wave and experiments
  • Epiphanies - video
    My first net.art piece, Epiphanies is a conceptual Google Hack inspired by James Joyce’s definition of the epiphany. It is considered as one of the very first pieces of “Google Art”, probably the first… In 2001, Google wasn’t yet the Internet
  • A tomb made of cardboard packing boxes. Inside, a primate-lab cage and a mechanism. That moves a computer controlled monkey's paw and a light source that slowly draw the face of Jim Pomeroy (1946-1992) in phosphorescent pigment.
  • Firebirds
    Flames, suitably modulated by electric fields, can be made to act as omnidirectional loudspeakers of surprising loudness and clarity. Each flame, captive within its cage, recites the words of a famous orator 1935-1936.