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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

Commissioned by Candy & Candy for Home House, London / UK ‘Radius’ is a sound-reactive media installation that plays with the light emitted by spatial arrays of light sources. Where a commonly flat arrangement of LEDs would be conceived as a

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

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

AMPLITUDE Commissioned by Design Miami for the Fendi flagship store / Rome 2010 Conceived as further experimental research into the principles of the Radius installation, Amplitue concentrates once more on the direct and physical relationship

communiqué Centre des Arts Pour ce dernier volet de la saison, le centre des arts invite l’esprit prolifique de Maurice Benayoun à investir ses espaces ainsi que ceux de la Médiathèque George Sand d’Enghien-les-Bains autour de deux propositions

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

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)

Discovering the secrets of nostalgic "circuit bending" it seems that here the drive immediately sadistic turns of its true purpose. The crushing nature of games against child trying to convert sounds, notes and voice stuttering, screaming,

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