Christophe Bruno lives and works in Paris. His work (installations, hacks, performances, conceptual pieces…) has a critical take on network phenomena and globalisation in the field of language and images.
REALITY ADDICTS demand more than the seclusion of multimedia: they are interested in the real human being, in words and images, in nature and culture. The dependence on reality devotes them to subvert that kind of reality which is produced through means of media-technology with the help of artistic strategies. They celebrate technical defects, play with the almost possible and commit themselves to nonsense seeking to multiply reality by means of exaggeration, rupture, distance, and ever new diversions.
In a.m./p.m there are no human beings in sight. The camera slowly and systematically scans photos of buildings. We hear a woman's voice accompanying the images of cosmopolitan cityscapes.
Human Browser is a series of wireless Internet performances based on a Wi-Fi Google hack. A human being embodies the World Wide Web, the sum of all speeches of mankind. Thanks to his/her headset, the actor hears a text-to-speech audio that comes directely from the Internet in real-time.
transmediale.06 was devoted to the ongoing process of technologised reality: REALITY ADDICTS presented those artistic strategies that subvertively reflect the impact of reality on technology.
