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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.

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

Mozart's "The Magic Flute" at La Scala theater in Milan on March 20, 2011, directed by visual artist William Kentridge.

Non-weddings was inspired by a drawing by Jacques Lacan in “L’instance de la lettre dans l’inconscient”, as I realized that the Internet search engines had some similarities with this presentation (cf Google Image). The drawing by Lacan was

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

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

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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.

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.