Christophe Bruno Explained

Christophe Bruno (born 1964) is a French visual artist who works particularly in the medium of internet art, and has been described as the world's first "Human Browser".^[1]

Moreover, French reality TV star Nabilla Benattia, mentions Bruno in her book French: Allô! Non mais allô, quoi! from July 2013. She develops a Cartesian analysis about Christophe Bruno.

Background

Bruno was born in 1964 in Bayonne, France. He lives and works in Paris. He began his artistic work in 2001,^[2] influenced by the net.art movement. His artworks include Iterature,^[3] Logo.Hallucination,^[4] The Google Adwords Happening^[5] and many other pieces.

His work has been shown at many international festivals and museums. Bruno was awarded the ARCO (Madrid's International Contemporary Art Fair) new media prize in 2007, and a prize at the Prix Ars Electronica in 2003.

He divides his time between his artistic work, curating, teaching, lectures, and publications.^[6]

Work

Bruno's thesis is that through the web, and especially through the ability to search and monitor it thoroughly by means of Google, the world is heading towards a global text, which, among other things, enables a new form of textual, semantic capitalism, which he explores in his work.

Bruno's works include:

Iterature, a collection of pieces or documentations of performances which use the text from the web as material. Many of the pieces are search engine hacks (primarily Google). They get hold of text floating around the web and use it as raw material for various re-workings, cut-ups, algorithmic text generations, visualizations, cartographies and so forth.^[3]
Logo.Hallucination, which continuously monitors the images circulating on the Internet looking for hidden logos. Logo.Hallucination then sends cease and desist emails whenever a copyright violation is detected.^[7]
Adwords Happenings, which plays with the rules of Google's Adwords service by inserting "spam poems" in the ad boxes that appear selectively to the user according to his personal search. Clicking on these links would of course then redirect the user to Bruno's website.^[5]

Awards

Bruno has won the following awards, and has been awarded the following grants:

Winner of the ARCO new media prize 2007, Madrid
Selection to Laboral Cyberspaces, Gijón, 2007
Winner of the Share Festival 2007, Turin
DICREAM (CNC-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication), aide à la production, 2006
CNAP (Centre National des Arts Plastiques), aide à la première exposition, 2006
DICREAM (CNC-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication), aide à la maquette, 2004
Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2003, Linz

References and further reading

Web site: Pold . Søren . 2007-10-11 . Literature from Page to Interface: The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno's Iterature . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180415222120/https://electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/textualized . 2018-04-15 . Electronic Book Review.
Web site: Olson . Marisa . 2006-02-10 . Human Browser, by Christophe Bruno, at Transmediale . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090726033830/http://rhizome.org/editorial/fp/reblog.php/1430 . 2009-07-26 . Rhizome.
Web site: Media Art Net Bruno, Christophe: Biography . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120207051706/http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/bruno/biography/ . 2012-02-07 . Medien Kunstnetz.
Web site: GIRARDEAU . Astrid . Christophe Bruno, détourneur du Web . 2024-06-15 . Libération . fr.
Web site: ArtFacts . Christophe Bruno Artist . 2024-06-15 . ArtFacts.
Web site: 2006 . Christophe Bruno . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061231175134/http://www.sollertis.com/index_2/dossier_presse_cbruno.pdf . 2006-12-31 . Galerie Sollertis.
Web site: 2006-03-06 . Interview with Christophe Bruno . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080603025216/http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2006/03/interview-with.php . 2008-06-03 . We Make Money Not Art.
Web site: SECOND NIGHT sur Second Life . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071011151840/http://www.paris.fr/portail/nb2007/Portal.lut?page_id=8020&document_type_id=5&document_id=33376&portlet_id=18522 . 2007-10-11 . Paris.fr . fr.
Web site: Laudouar . Janique . @rtek n°1 : « Human Browser » . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071015205151/http://www.culturemobile.net/innovations/artek/human-browser-04.html . 2007-10-15 . Culture Mobile . fr.

Notes and References

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/vi/0,47-0@2-631760,54-656281,0.html "Human Browser décode la Constitution européenne"
News: Yahoo y Google, elevados al grado de arte . es . . 19 February 2007 . 2014-08-11 .
http://www.iterature.com i t e r a t u r e
http://www.logohallucination.com Logo.Hallucination
http://www.iterature.com/adwords net art : adwords happening
http://www.christophebruno.com/biography/ Christophe Bruno: Biography
Evelyne Bennati "Christophe Bruno. Logo.Hallucination", ParisArt, 2006. Retrieved 2014-08-11.