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Christophe Bruno

About Christophe Bruno

Christophe Bruno

Christophe Bruno lives and works in Paris. Awarded with an Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2003 for his piece The Google Adwords Happening, his work has been shown internationaly: FIAC Paris, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Transmediale in Berlin, galerie Sollertis in Toulouse, ICC in Tokyo, Nuit Blanche de Paris, File Festival in Sao Paulo, Modern Art Museum of the city of Paris, Tirana Biennale of Contemporary Art, f.2004@shangai, ReJoyce Festival in Dublin, Ichim in Paris, P0es1s.net in Berlin, Microwave Media Art Festival in Honk-Kong, Read_Me Festival in Dortmund and Aarhus, Vidarte in Mexico City… He divides his time between his artistic activity, teaching, lectures and publications.

Wifi-SM

The project WiFi-SM was launched in September 2003 for the Tirana Bienniale of Contemporary Art. At first it was just a parodic webpage (please check before the marketing campaign website here) advertising for a totally fake (although technologically feasible) Wi-Fi device that one could fix on any part of the body, and whose function would be to “share the pain of the world”. It automatically detects in real-time the information from RSS news sources world-wide and analyses them looking for specific keywords such as death, kill, murder, torture, rape, war, virus etc.. Each time the text of the news contains one of these keywords, the WiFi-SM device is activated and provides an electric shock.

After the success of the guerilla-marketing campaign, a bracelet prototype has been build. The real product was shown for the first time at the galerie Sollertis, in January 2006.