BIOGRAPHY
Maurice Benayoun (AKA MoBen) has been actively contributing to media art history during the past 30 years. He developed works that, beyond innovation, in CGI, VR, AR, AI, BCI... addressed some key issues of contemporary society. His work exhibited in major international shows, festivals, and Museums, received more than 30 international awards. in 2016, with Tobias Klein, they create the Brain Factory that became in 2019, with Nicolas Mendoza: Value of values, Transactional Art on the Blockchain.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
2019
Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., Barrière, J.- B., Value of Values, Digital Art Festival Taipei,MOMA, Taipei, ROC, 25 Oct. 2019 – 10 Nov. 2019.
Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., Barrière, J.- B., Value of Values, Nuit Blanche Paris, 100 ECS, 10 rue de Charenton, Paris, France, 5– 6 Oct. 2019.
Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., Barrière, J.- B., Value of Values, BAUHAUS 100, Macerata, Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata, Italy, 18th July 2019 – Oct. 2019.
Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., Barrière, J.- B., Value of Values, #Ann MAK (SCM), Value of Values, 2 stations version, LUX AETERNA, The 25th International Symposium on Electronic Arts, (ISEA2019), ACC, Asia Culture Centre, Gwangju, Republic of Korea, 22 June - 28 July 2019.
Benayoun, M., Transactional Poetry, Generative poetry based on the actual transactions on the Blockchain, by VoV users, June 5th, 2019
Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., Barrière, J.- B., #WANG, X. and #Mak, A., "ISEA2019 X VoV IVO” (Art project: Value of Values), ISEA2019 X VoV IVO (VIP Launch: Value of Values), Tazak Madang SKT HCI LAB, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 5th June 2019.
Benayoun, M., Curator, "On the Road - Young Media Artists in China - Nomination Exhibition” (Nominator, Chief Curator), One the Road, Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Sichuan, China, 5-24 March 2019.
2018
ACM Siggraph Asia, The Torch is now in our Hands, art installation, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 5-7 2018
2018 Gwangju Media Art Festival 2018, Watch Out! 2018, Algorithm Society: The Birth of Machine-God, Gwangju, Korea, Nov. 28 – Dec. 7, 2018
Microwave 2018, Brain Factory, Abstract Shots, City Hall, Hong Kong, Oct. 26 – Nov. 10, 2018
VIII Taskent Internationale Biennale of Contemporary Art, Emotion Winds, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Oct. 8-14, 2018
VIII Taskent Internationale Biennale of Contemporary Art, Abstract Shots, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Oct. 8-14, 2018
Enghien-les-Bains, Emotion Forecast, exhibition la biennale Internationale du numérique: Human future: comment penser l’homme dans notre société de demain? Artist, Organized by Centre of the Arts - Scene Conventioned Digital Scripts, Enghien-les- Bains, France, 13-17 June 2018
ASTRI, Brain Cloud, “L’Esprit des Lumières” exhibition, Artist (with Tobias Klein), Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI), Hong Kong 28 May 2017
ASTRI’s Smart City Innovation Centre, Astrilab, L’Esprit des Lumières exhibition, Concept and realisation (with Tobias Klein), Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) in collaboration with CityU Hong Kong, SCM and ACIM, Hong Kong 28 May 2017
Technopolis (Gazi) Industrial Museum, Geometries - Emotion Forecast, exhibition Science Without Borders - Geometries, Artist, Organized Nina Colosi of Streaming Museum, Athens, Greece, 24-29 April 2018
City University of Hong Kong, Open Sky campus 2013-2016, exhibition On the Road - Young Media Artists in China, Curator, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 20 March - 19 April 2018
City University of Hong Kong, On the Road - Young Media Artists in China, Chief Curator, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 20 March - 19 April 2018
Laval Virtual, Brain Factory, exhibition Recto VRso IN- Art & VR Gallery, Artist, Curated by Laurent Chrétien, Laval Virtual, Laval, France, 3-8 April 2018
Cyland International Media Art Festival, Emotion Winds, exhibition Weather Forcast, Digital Cloudiness, St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, St Petersburg, Russia, Feb. 2-12, 2018
Asia Society Hong Kong Centre, Brain Factory, Exhibition, The Night of Ideas - Digital interactive performances & installations, Artist, Organized Consulat Géneral de France á Hong Kong et Macao, Hong Kong, 25 January 2018
CONTACTS
Email: mb[@]benayoun.com