
Christophe Bruno

Christophe Bruno (born 1964) is a French visual artist who works particularly in the medium of internet art, and described as the world's first "Human Browser".
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Background.
Christophe Bruno was born in 1964 in Bayonne, France. He lives and works in Paris France. He began his artistic activity in 2001, influenced by the net.art movement. His artworks include "Iterature", "Logo.Hallucination", "The Google Adwords Happening" and many other pieces.
His work has been shown at many international festivals, museums: FIAC Paris, ARCO Madrid, Biennale of Sydney, Diva Fair in New York, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Art Cologne, MoCA Taipei, Modern Art Museum of the city of Paris, New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Tirana Biennale of Contemporary Art, Gallery West in The Hague, Vooruit Arts Center in Ghent, Share Festival in Turin, Transmediale in Berlin, Laboral Cyberspaces in Gijon, Galerie Sollertis in Toulouse, ICC in Tokyo, Nuit Blanche de Paris, File Festival in São Paulo, Rencontres Paris-Berlin, f.2004@shangai, ReJoyce Festival in Dublin, P0es1s.net in Berlin, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival in Hong Kong, Read_Me Festival in Dortmund and Aarhus, Vidarte in Mexico City.
To date, he has been awarded the ARCO (Madrid's International Contemporary Art Fair) new media prize in 2007, and a prize at the Prix Ars Electronica 2003.
He divides his time between his artistic activity, curating, teaching, lectures, and publications.
Work.
Bruno's thesis is that through the web, and especially through the ability to search and monitor it thoroughly by means of Google, we are heading towards a global text that among other things enables a new form of textual, semantic capitalism, which he explores in his work.
Bruno's works include:
Exhibitions.
FIAC Paris, ARCO Madrid, Biennale of Sydney, Diva Fair in New-York, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, ArtCologne, MoCA Taipei, Modern Art Museum of the city of Paris, New Museum of Contemporary Art in New-York, Tirana Biennale of Contemporary Art, Gallery West in The Hague, Vooruit Arts Center in Gent, Share Festival in Torino, Transmediale in Berlin, Laboral Cyberspaces in Gijon, galerie Sollertis in Toulouse, ICC in Tokyo, Nuit Blanche de Paris, File Festival in São Paulo, Rencontres Paris-Berlin, f.2004@shangai, ReJoyce Festival in Dublin, P0es1s.net in Berlin, Microwave Media Art Festival in Honk-Kong, Read_Me Festival in Dortmund and Aarhus, Vidarte in Mexico City ...
Awards.
Christophe Bruno has won the following awards, and has been awarded the following grants: