Neuro-Design Lab
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The Neuro-Design Lab (ND Lab) is directed by Professor Maurice Benayoun and co-directed by Dr. Tobias Klein. Exploring the distance that separates Data and Matter, Sublimation and Reification, Values and Actions, Art and Facts, Finance and Ethics, Thought and Objects, the ND Lab investigates the possible convergence of apparently antagonist fields to foster a better understanding of the technological, sociological, aesthetical, and ethical mutations at stake in the post-media era. Conducting in parallel, technological innovation, theoretical research, and artistic creation, the ND Lab produces advanced tools, academic publications, and artworks widely exhibited worldwide.
In the recent projects, The Brain Factory, Value of Values, and DïaloG, the ND lab has been developing many tools of research in interdisciplinary areas including but not limited to:
- EEG – BCI (Electro Encephalography, Brain-Computer Interaction)
- AI – GAN (Artificial Intelligence, Generative Adversarial Network)
- VR – AR (Virtual and Augmented Reality)
- AL – Artificial Life, Evolutionist models, Brain Ecosystem
- Art-Subject and Sentient Artifacts
- Urban Media Art / EEG applied to Architecture and Interior Design
- Blockchain applied art
The Brain Factory project aims to give shape to human abstractions through BCI (Brain-Computer Interaction) through materialisation process called “reification,” in which thoughts are converted into objects by 3D Printing.
Value of Values, Transactional Art on the Blockchain connects the shapes of Human Values generated in the Brain Factory to the Blockchain, ready for transactions and collection. They become poetry and ethical statements. Value of Values aims to find out the real value of Human Values, from the economy to transactional poetry.
DïaloG, an urban installation project conceived by Maurice Benayoun and Refik Anadol in the framework of MindSpaces international collaborative research program. It enables two digital artworks, aliens, immigrants to understand each other and the world surrounding them.
The Neuro Design Lab has been built as part of the Center of Applied Computing and Interactive Media, supported by the School of Creative Media - CityU HK. The research is also supported by the EU Horizon2020, S+T+Arts Lighthouse MindSpaces collaborative research program with 12 European Universities and corporations. It has been awarded by the EC/RGC Grant for MindSpaces HK Project.
Some of ND Lab Research Objectives:
- To implement shape generators based on real-time EEG data via BCI, Machine learning and AI technologies.
- To develop a complete software-based workflow from EEG data capture, behaviour Analysis, Artificial Intelligence to real-time shape generation, and 3D printing.
- To develop the artistic applications made possible by the potential of the technologies
- To develop the industrial applications allowed by the potential of the technologies (Industrial design and architecture)
Interviews
Programme: Hyundai - Blomberg prestigious Art +
Media: Blomberg Media, Culture & Entertainment, on Youtube
https://www.thenewsmarket.com/news/who-influences-who/s/870cef26-baa9-44da-84a7-064efff661d7?fbclid=IwAR06lEbS2OeHF4P6G5DGwo00iHxgUmdpyFrv7wvLmZq9RajaD5mTJHvSdIM
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9sRDrwbxEk
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNw1gA9NkAA
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1-cN13Dleo
An article on Finding the "Real Values" of Human Values in CityU Research (Download here)
PROJECTS
POWER CHESS
Jul 2021 - Posted in Interactive Art, Robotics by moben
Power Chess presents two robots playing a game of chess unlike any other. Maurice Benayoun and his collaborators invited two robots (robotic arms, to be precise) to compete in a game of chess. MoBen chose the game as a metaphor for society. This is the meaning behind the piece: making societal phenomena visible, particularly power relations, hence the name of the piece: Power Chess.
At each new Focal Powered by Naim store location, Power Chess will be presented and experienced through different products, including the latest Focal Celestee and Clear Mg headphones, powered by the Naim Uniti Atom Headphone Edition, plus a range of classic, active and integrated Focal loudspeakers. You will experience all the emotions and actions of the chess game as the robotic competitors fight it out. For MoBen, works of art are not just objects to be observed but become “subjects capable of complex behaviors.
The Brain Factory project aims to give shape to human abstractions through BCI (Brain-Computer Interaction) through materialisation process called “reification,” in which thoughts are converted into objects by 3D Printing.
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VALUE OF VALUES AT MOCA TAIPEI
Oct 2019 - Posted in Exhibition, Transactional Art by moben
DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL 2019, RETRANSENS.
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TAIPEI,
Curator: Loh Li-Chen
Co-curator: Hsiang Wen Chen
The largest exhibition of Value of Values, with 3 Neuro-design stations. Value of Values is now on Matic Blockchain after the Collector Period on Test-Net. It is now possible to trade, buy and sell Human Values
DÏALOG, THE FIRST ALIENS' ENCOUNTER
Jun 2021 - Posted in Installations, Interactive Art by moben
by Refik Anadol and Maurice Benayoun
DïaloG is an interactive urban media art installation exploring the themes of alterity, strangeness, and immigration, in a performative way. The work presents two pieces that are at the same time artworks and aliens. They are confronted to a new environment where they don’t belong to… yet. They will have to adapt their language, build common knowledge, integrating all new artifacts and natural phenomena that constitute now their environment. This includes the other living beings moving around them, and, eventually, they will have to understand each other. While we use the concept of language very broadly to include speech, performance, gesture, utterance, and even data, we focus on strangeness from an ontological perspective, trying to mark a terrain of possibilities for the intersection of interpersonal and digital experiences in the urban sphere.
HK ESCAPE VIEWS, PANOPTICAL MEMORIES
Sep 2020 - Posted in Installations, Interactive Art by moben
Hong Kong Escape Views, Panoptical Memories are inspired by prior projects like Art Impact, 2000, at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, where people painted their gaze watching in VR a contemporary Art Exhibition, together with environments of the daily life like supermarkets, slaughter house, a quarry, creating, in the Duchamp’s sense of the terms, a competition of retinal seduction. The supermarket won so many times when compared to art installations… Then So.So.So., Somebody, Somewhere, Some Time, 2002, a narrative version of the concept presented for the first time at the ZKM, Karlsruhe, in Future Cinema exhibition curated by Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel. The story was written in real time through the experience of watching situations. Later, 2005, Cosmopolis, Overwriting the City, presented across China, (Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, Chengdu), 12 VR telescopes offered to the public to mix 12 cities around the world, keeping the best of each in terms or retinal seduction.
Stemming on the concept of creating a dynamic palimpsest based the experience of watching, Escape Views, Panoptical Memories, show first an unexpected vision of Hong Kong, places of seclusion, attempts of isolation, sometimes unfruitful, that fits so well the idea of escaping the pandemics and, at the same time, the political evolution of the City.
ASTRILAB
Nov 2017 - Posted in Exhibition, Installations, Interactive Art, Museography, Works by moben
ASTRILAB is a unique platform for experiment, creation and communication.
Astrilab scenic apparatus is constituted by 3 different elements, all playing with each other. The functions of presenting Astri activities, representing Astri dynamism, and offering a playful way to experience innovation in action, are performed by these 3 Astrilab components:
The Hypercube: a large scale cubic display made of 12 500 LED Balls. Hypercube presents volumes and data in space as a low resolution full depth information cloud in light and motion.
The Gateway: it is a 4K multitouch screen were detailed information is elegantly presented. Touch and touchless interactions are possible to get into all Astri research field strata.
The Brain Cloud: at the same time an innovative artistic installation by Maurice Benayoun and Tobias Klein, a world premiere, and a prototype for neuro-design technology. Brain Cloud is made of a massage chair, an EEG headband, an LCD monitor and, thanks to its connection to the Gateway and the Hypercube, it displays the 3D models resulting from the interaction as dynamic animated forms on the Hypercube and a full database of the brain production + brain waves monitoring on the Gateway.
VALUE OF VALUES, BAUHAUS 100, MACERATA
Jul 2019 - Posted in Exhibition, Transactional Art by moben
Value of Values, VoV, Bauhaus 100 exhibition,
Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata, Italy
Artists: Maurice Benayoun, Tobias Klein, Nicolas Mendoza
Composer: Jean-Baptiste Barrière
Curator: Maria Grazia Mattei, MEET
July, 18 – Novembre, 3, 2019
WHEN TRANSACTIONAL AESTHETICS MEET NEURO-DESIGN ON THE BLOCKCHAIN
Speculative Speculation on Values
In VoV, the resulting shapes are brought into the context of an “ethical realism”, an objective representation of individual and collective hierarchy of values. While Brain Factory deals with a wide range of human abstractions, VoV only gives shape to those that could be considered as human values. The neuro-designed shapes, produced by individual visitors, become named and numbered digital 3D models: FREEDOM 0001, FREEDOM 0002… FREEDOM 000X. Each numbered item is an artwork registered on the Blockchain.
At the end of the process, the Brain Worker, the shaper of the value, becomes the owner of the Blockchain VoV and the owner of the 3D model, the “idea” of the shape. VoVs are convertible into Ethereum, a common cryptocurrency.. The owner can sell or barter the VoV, or even freely use the shape to produce artifacts, artworks, or goods.
VALUE OF VALUES, AT ISEA2019 GWANGJU
Jun 2019 - Posted in Exhibition, Transactional Art by moben
ISEA, International Symposium on Electronic Arts is the major academic event on Media Art, research and creation. Value of Values is an invited artwork curated by Art Center Nabi for the Lux Aeterna Exhibition.
"Value of Values (VoV) is a blockchain-based art project. It aims to find out the real, economic value of human values through EEG (Electroencephalography, and biofeedback). VoV is an extension to the acclaimed Brain Factory project. In both, exhibition visitors (aka Brain workers) give – straight from their brain waves – a three- dimensional shape to abstract concepts, like FREEDOM, PEACE, MONEY, LOVE, POWER.
ISEA, International Symposium on Electronic Arts is the major academic event on Media Art, research and creation. Value of Values is an invited artwork curated by Art Center Nabi for the Lux Aeterna Exhibition.
ACIM Team Research Fellowship, Applied Neuro-Design. Grant Amount: HK$50,000. PI: Maurice Benayoun
EC-RGC grant, Mindspaces HK. Grant amount: HK$2.6M. PI: Maurice Benayoun STARTS – HORIZON2020 EU Project, MindSpaces. Grant amount: HK$1.6M. PI: Maurice Benayoun
ACIM Team Research Fellowship, Challenges and Opportunities of the Blockchain Technology for Hong Kong. PI: Damien Charrieras; Co-Is: Maurice Benayoun, Daniel Howe
ASTRI Lab + Brain Cloud. Grant amount: HK$1.35M. PIs: Maurice Benayoun, Tobias Klein. Co-Is: Jeffrey Shaw, Richard William Allen. ACIM Team Research Fellowship, Reverse Neuro Design. Grant amount: HK$200,000. PI: Maurice Benayoun
Brain Factory Prototype. PI, Bains Numerique Biennial, Centre des Arts Enghien les Bains, RAN (Dig Art Network)
Zhang Y., Benayoun, M., The Emotional Statement: Profile Photo and Self Branding in the Art World, INDERSCIENCE, International Journal of Arts and Technology, 7 July 2020,
https://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=108629
Benayoun, M., Sustainability, Value of Values, Edition of CENTERPOINT NOW 2020, World Council of Peoples for the United Nations, 2020.
Benayoun, M., Ag, T. R., After the Tunnel, the shifting ontology and ethology of the emerging art-subject, full paper, ISEA2020 online, proceedings, 2020.
Park, Lisa Soyoung, and Maurice Benayoun. “A Cautionary Tale of Urban Media Art: Media-Bait, Planned Censorship and Its Repercussions.” Leonardo 53, no. 2 (April 2, 2020): 135–44. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01611. (posted online January 24, 2018)
Benayoun, M., “On Digital Mutations in the Landscape of Chinese Contemporary Art.” On the Road – Young Media Artists in China, Hong Kong: School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, English and Chinese, (March, 2018): pp. 12-18. http://www.academia.edu/36473999/On_Digital_Mutations_in_the_Landscape_of_Chinese_Contemporary_Art_-_Chief_curator_statement
Benayoun, M., “Value of Values in the MindSpaces”, Ars Electronica 2019, Linz, Austria, (September, 2019).
Benayoun, M., “Value of Values, Finance vs Ethics”, accepted paper, ISEA2019, Republic of Korea, (June, 2019).
Petros Alvanitopoulos, Sotiris Diplaris, Beatrice de Gelder, Alexander Shvets, Maurice Benayoun, Panagiota Koulali, Ayman Moghnieh, Yash Shekhawat, Christos Stentoumis, Tyson Hosmer, Refik Anadol, Marta Borreguero, Alejandro Martin, Piera Sciama, Kostas Avgerinakis, Panagiotis Petrantonakis, Alexia Briassouli, Simon Mille, Anastasios Tellios, Luis Fraguada, Holger Sprengel, Ilias Kalisperakis, Nestor Cabanas, Spiridon Nikolopoulos, Stavros Skouras, Verena Vogler, Despoina Zavraka, Jens Piesk, Lazaros Grammatikopoulos, Leo Wanner, Tobias Klein, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris. “MindSpaces: Art-driven Adaptive Outdoors and Indoors Design”. Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage, 9. (2019): pp 391-402.
Benayoun, M., Preface: “L’artiste, la fusion critique et le neuro-mimétisme urbain.” Chronotopies, Lecture et écriture des mondes en mouvement, Drevon Guillaume, Gwiazdzinski, Luc, Klein Olivier, l’innovation autrement, pp8-13. France: French, Sept, 2017. ISBN: 979-10-91336-109
Benayoun, M., Bares, J., “Urban Media Art Paradox: Critical Fusion vs. Urban Cosmetics”, What Urban Media Art Can Do, Susa Pop; Tanya Toft; Nerea Calvillo; Mark Wright editors, av edition, pp 75-82. English. May 30, 2016.
Benayoun, M., “Open Sky Gallery”, What Urban Media Art Can Do, Susa Pop; Tanya Toft; Nerea Calvillo; Mark Wright editors, av edition, pp 450-454. English. May 30, 2016.
Benayoun, M., “Memory Dump, the Disregarded Power of Undone Art”, e-discourse in online networked communities - structure, timing, tone, and affect, ISEA2016 Hong Kong Cultural R>Evolution, Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art, Editor: Olli Tapio Leino, pp 424-425. Hong Kong: School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, May 2016. English. ISBN: 978-962-442-397-6
Benayoun, M., “Overscale Art in Public Space: from Play to Dysplay, Gigantic- Meditation Beyond Surface”, ISEA2016 Hong Kong Cultural R>Evolution, Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art, Editor: Olli Tapio Leino, pp 381. Hong Kong: School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, English. May 2016. ISBN: 978-962-442-397-6
Art Machines: Past/Present, Benayoun, M. Hong Kong Escape Views: Panoptical Memories. Interactive installation, 360 videos, and VR Binoculars. Neuro-Design Lab, ACIM, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Indra and Harry Banga Gallery, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, November 24 2020 – February 21, 2021.
Ars Electronica Festival 2020, Hong Kong Garden, Solo Exhibition III: Maurice Benayoun. Introduction to Value of Values project Video. Kelper’s Garden, Chair of Hong Kong Garden Benayoun, M., Neuro-Design Lab, ACIM, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, September 9 – 13, 2020.
Ars Electronica Festival 2020, Hong Kong Garden and Garden Thessaloniki, Benayoun, M., Anadol, R. DïaloG: Alien life in the Telescope. Live experiment. MindSpaces & MindSpaces HK / CityUHK, Analog Native, Neuro-Design Lab, ACIM, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. September 9 – 13, 2020.
Ars Electronica Festival 2020, Hong Kong Garden, Benayoun, M. Chair, concept and Realisation. Introduction to Value of Values: Planetary Wine Tasting party. Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, September 13, 2020.
Ars Electronica Festival 2020, Hong Kong Garden, Benayoun, M. Hong Kong Escape Views. online version, 360 video panoramas, Neuro-Design Lab, ACIM, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, September 9 – 13, 2020.
Ars Electronica Festival 2020, Benayoun, M., Chair of Hong Kong Garden. Hong Kong Garden. Kelper’s Garden, Neuro-Design Lab, ACIM, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, September 9 – 13, 2020.
https://hkgarden.scm.cityu.edu.hk/
other links:
https://www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/events/ars-electronica-2020-hong-kong-garden
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7hc0ucmlo7L8PsCN_TaCcA/featured
https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/2020/08/25/ars-electronica-gardens-asien/
https://www.facebook.com/AEgardenHONGKONG/?view_public_for=112476533918447
Digital Bodies: Concerning Bodily Structures, Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., Value of Values., Online Exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Digital Art (MoCDA) and CADAF Online Art Fair 2020, Curated by Stina Gustafsson, Chloe Diamond, Serena Tabacchi and Marie Chatel, MoCDA, June 25 – September 28, 2020
CADAF Online Art Fair 2020, Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., VALUE OF VALUES-Exclusive VoVs., In Booth Maurice Benayoun. Value of Values., In Booth MoCDA, Exhibiton Digital Bodies, Concerning Bodily Structures., Contemporary & Digital Art Fair (CADAF), June 25 – 28, 2020
Museum of Contemporary Digital Art (MoCDA), Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., Value of Values. Digital Bodies, Concerning Bodily Structures, MoCDA exhibition at CADAF Online Art Fair 2020, Curated by Stina Gustafsson, Chloe Diamond, Serena Tabacchi and Marie Chatel, June 25 – September 28, 2020
Contemporary & Digital Art Fair, Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., VALUE OF VALUES-Exclusive VoVs. CADAF Online Art Fair 2020, June 25 – 28, 2020
Avignon Arts Contemporains, Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., Barrière, J.-B., Value of Values. LUMIÈRE / ESPACE / TEMPS, Autour de Nicolas Schöffer. Paris, France, April 4 – June 27, 2020.
MOCA Taipei, 2019 Digital Art Festival Taipei, 2019第十四屆臺北數位藝術節, Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., Barrière, J.-B., Value of Values. #RTS: ReTranSens 再轉存, Curated by Li Chen Loh 駱麗真, Co-curated by Chen Hsiang-Wen 陳湘汶, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MOCA Taipei), ROC, October 25 – November 10, 2019.
https://www.mocataipei.org.tw/tw/ExhibitionAndEvent/Info/再轉存*─*2019第十四屆臺北數位藝術節/《價值的價值》
Other articles:
https://www.mocataipei.org.tw/tw/ExhibitionAndEvent/Info/再轉存*─*2019第十四屆臺北數位藝術節
https://artfacts.net/exhibition/rts:-retransens-14th-digital-art-festival-taipei-2019/894993
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2019/10/31/2003724959
https://www.digiarts.org.tw/DigiArts/NewsPage/151000643785002/Chi
https://886.news/2019/10/14/2019第⼗四屆臺北數位藝術節-十五組國內外知名藝術/
Nuit Blanche, 100 ECS Paris, Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., Barrière, J.-B., Value of Values, Transnational Poetry. Im-Matériels Univers, 10 rue de Charenton, Paris, France, October 5 – 6, 2019.
BAUHAUS 100: imparare, fare, pensare, Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., Barrière, J.-B., Value of Values. Exhibition curated by Aldo Colonetti, MEET Culture Center, Macerata, Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata, Italy, July 18 – October, 2019.
ISEA2019, Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., Barrière, J.-B., Value of Values. and Value of Values. 2 stations version, Exhibition LUX AETERNA, Curated by Art Center Nabi, Asia Culture Centre (ACC), Gwangju, Republic of Korea, June 22 – July 28, 2019.
ISEA2019 X VoV IVO, ISEA2019, Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., Barrière, J.-B., with the Team WANG, X. and Mak, A. Value of Values. Exhibition ISEA2019 X VoV IVO (VIP Launch: Value of Values), curated by Art Center Nabi, Tazak Madang SKT HCI LAB, Seoul, Republic of Korea, June 5, 2019.
Digital Art Festival Taipei 2019, , Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., Barrière, J.-B., Value of Values.
100 ECS Paris, Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., Barrière, J.-B., Value of Values, Transnational Poetry. Nuit Blanche, Im-Matériels Univers, 10 rue de Charenton, Paris, France, October 5 – 6, 2019.
Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2018, Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N., Barrière, J.-B. Brain Factory Abstract Shots. Exhibition Much Ado About Everything. Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong, October 26 –November 11, 2018.
Asia Society Hong Kong Centre, Benayoun, M. Brain Factory. Exhibition The Night of Ideas - Digital interactive performances & installations, Artist, Organized by Consulat Géneral de France á Hong Kong et Macao, Hong Kong, January 25, 2018.
ACM Siggraph Asia, Benayoun, M. The Torch is now in our Hands. art installation. Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 5-7, 2018.
2018 Gawngju Media Art Festival 2018, Benayoun, M. Watch Out! 2018. Algorithm Society: The Birth of Machine-God, Guangju, Korea, Nov. 28 – Dec. 7, 2018.
Microwave 2018, Benayoun, M. Brain Factory. Abstract Shots. City Hall, Hong Kong, Oct. 26 – Nov. 10, 2018.
VIII Taskent Internationale Biennale of Contemporary Art, Benayoun, M. Emotion Winds. Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Oct. 8-14, 2018.
VIII Taskent Internationale Biennale of Contemporary Art, Benayoun, M. Abstract Shots. Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Oct. 8-14, 2018.
Technopolis (Gazi) Industrial Museum, Benayoun, M. Geometries - Emotion Forecast. Exhibition Science Without Borders - Geometries, Organized by Nina Colosi of Streaming Museum, Athens, Greece, April 24 – 29, 2018.
City University of Hong Kong, Benayoun, M. Open Sky campus 2013-2016. Exhibition On the Road - Young Media Artists in China, Curator, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, March 20 – April 19, 2018.
City University of Hong Kong, Chief Curator Benayoun, M. On the Road - Young Media Artists in China, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, March 20 – 19 April 19, 2018.
Laval Virtual, Benayoun, M. Brain Factory. Exhibition Recto VRso IN- Art & VR Gallery, Curated by Laurent Chrétien, Laval Virtual, Laval, France, April 3 – 8, 2018.
Cyland International Media Art Festival, Benayoun, M. 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, Benayoun, M. Brain Factory. Exhibition The Night of Ideas - Digital interactive performances & installations, Artist, Organized by Consulat Géneral de France á Hong Kong et Macao, Hong Kong, January 25, 2018.
QUT Art Museum, Benayoun, M. Brain Factory Prototype Delta. Exhibition Why Future Still Needs Us, Robotronica 2017, Organized by Art Center Nabi / Robotronica, 2 George St, Brisbane City QLD 4000, Australia, Aug 19 – Oct 29, 2017.
ASTRI, Benayoun, M., Klein, T. Brain Cloud. L’Esprit des Lumières exhibition, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI), Hong Kong, May 28, 2017.
ASTRI's Smart City Innovation Centre, Benayoun, M., Klein, T. Astrilab. L’Esprit des Lumières exhibition, Concept and Realitsation, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) in collaboration with CityU Hong Kong, SCM and ACIM, Hong Kong May 28, 2017.
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/astri-s-chairman-and-ceo-tell-journalists-how-it-plans-to-fully-capitalise-on-a-highly-favourable-climate-for-i-t-development-and-share-glimpses-of-future-plans-1025589759
https://www.astri.org/news-detail/astris-chairman-and-ceo-tell-journalists-how-it-plans-to-fully-capitalise-on-a-highly-favourable-climate-for-it-development-and-share-glimpses-of-future-plans/
Art Center Nabi, Benayoun, M. Brain Factory Prototype 2. Why Future Still Needs Us: AI and Humanity, organized by Art Center Nabi, SK Building 4F, 99 Seorin-dong, Jongro-gu, Seoul, Korea, COMO, Seoul, Korea, Nov 15, 2016 – 20 Jan 20, 2017.
Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Art, Borders Tunnel, Curated by CJ Chen and Maurice Benayoun, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Art, Nanjing, China, December 20, 2017 – January 16, 2018.
Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Art, Benayoun, M. Just Dig It!.
Guan Shanyue Museum, On The Road, Young Media Artists in China. 35 installations. appointed curator Maurice Benayoun, Shenzhen, China, Nov, 2017.
QUT Art Museum, Benayoun, M. Brain Factory Prototype Delta. Exhibition Why Future Still Needs Us, Robotronica 2017, Organized by Art Center Nabi / Robotronica, 2 George St, Brisbane City QLD 4000, Australia, Aug 19 – 29 Oct 29, 2017.
Kunstraum Langenlois, Benayoun, M. White Cube Beta 11-20. Exhibition Rendez-vous, Curated by Christina Lackner and Norbert Fleischmann, Langenlois, Austria, April 2 –September 3, 2017.
Kong Art Space, Benayoun, M. Cyberkini. Exhibition CARNIVAL, Curated by Caroline Ha Thuc, Amnesty International Hong Kong, 3 Staunton Street, Central, Hong Kong, Feb 16 – 26, 2017.
Centre Culturel François Villon, Benayoun, M., collaboration with Klein T. Brain Factory Prototype. Festival des Bains Numériques, organized by Paragraphe Université Paris et Réseau Arts Numériques, 4 Rue Talma, 95880 Enghien-les-Bains, France, Jun 6, 2016.
Art Center Nabi, Benayoun, M. Brain Factory Prototype 2. Why Future Still Needs Us: AI and Humanity, organized by Art Center Nabi, SK Building 4F, 99 Seorin-dong, Jongro-gu, Seoul, Korea, COMO, Seoul, Korea, Nov 15, 2016 – 20 Jan 20, 2017.
ICC Tower, Benayoun, M. Founder and Curator. Open Sky Gallery. ISEA 2016, organized by ISEA, City University of Hong Kong & Hong Kong Polytechnic University, ICC Tower Façade, May 17, 2016.
ICC Tower, Benayoun, M. Founder and Curator. Open Sky Campus 2015-16, Semester I. Open Sky Project, organized by City University of Hong Kong and Sun Hung Kai Property Limited, ICC Tower Façade, Mar 1 – 31, 2016.
Osage Gallery Hong Kong, Benayoun, M. Just Dig It!. organized by Osage Gallery Hong Kong, Union Hing Yip Factory Building, 20 Hing Yip St, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, April 20 – May 25, 2016.
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Benayoun, M. Quarxs (91-93). Video/drawings/furniture installation. Post Pixel. Animamix Biennale, co-organised by City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, CMC Gallery, Other Participating Institutes: Art:1 New Museum, Daegu Art Museum, Shanghai MOCA, Presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department
, CMC Gallery, City University of Hong Kong, Mar 21– April 17, 2016.
Union of Greek Archaeologists, Benayoun, M. Emotion Winds. Point Zero: Re start, organized by Institut Français -Gréce, Union of Greek Archaeologists, Ermou 134, 105 53, Athens Greece, Feb 28 – Mar 30, 2016.
Waterfall Mansion Gallery, Benayoun, M. White Cube Alpha. Emotion Winds. Installation. The Need For My Care, organized by Waterfall Mansion and Gallery, 170 E 80th St, New York, NY 10075, USA, Feb 3 – April 20, 2016.
Benayoun, M., Invited Speaker, "Comment le Biofeedback sonore contribue au neuro-design des valeurs humaines", Mondes Spatialisé (Online Lecture), Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne, Lyon, France, 3-4 November 2020.
Benayoun, M., Host and Speaker. Ahmed, H., Briassouli, A., Fraguada, L., Georgakopoulou, N., Gollob, E.,Hosmer,T., Tellios, M. A., Dr A., Zavaraka, D., Invited Speakers. “Public Symposium: Why and How Artworks Feel?”, Collaborative project MindSpaces & MindSpaces HK / CityUHK, Online open lecture, Hong Kong Garden, Garden Thessaloniki, Ars Electronica Festival 2020, Neuro-Design Lab, ACIM, SCM, CityU, 9-13 September 2020.
Benayoun, M., Anadol, R., Invited Speakers, “Dialogue about DïaloG, Conversation between Refik Anadol (LA) and MoBen (HK)”, Collaborative project for the DïaloG project, MindSpaces & MindSpaces HK / CityUHK, Online open lecture, Hong Kong Garden, Garden Thessaloniki, Ars Electronica Voyage Channel, Ars Electronica Festival 2020, Ars Electronica, MindSpaces, Neuro-Design Lab, ACIM, SCM, CityU, 9 September 2020.
Benayoun, M., Keynote Speaker, “ART SHIFTS step by step”, Meet the Media Guru with Maurice Benayoun, Digital Innovation for Culture (Online Lecture), MEET Digital Communication srl Impresa Sociale, Milan, Italy, 30 June 2020.
Benayoun, M., Invited Speaker, “Art from connection to pervasion”, Pt.1 Telemechanics, 101. ALL in One Online Festival, 101 Mediapoetry, 20 June 2020.
Benayoun, M., Invited Speaker. “Transactional Art from the Brain Factory to Value of Values”, Derrick de Kerckhove's Lecture CAFA: a new Art Collective, Online Open Lecture, School of Creative Media, The City University of Hong Kong, CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing), 22 May 2020.
Benayoun, M., Invited Speaker, “What is the Value of Values in the Brain factory”, Derrick de Kerckhove's Lecture CAFA: a new Art Collective, Online Open Lecture, School of Creative Media, The City University of Hong Kong, CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing), 8 May 2020.
Benayoun, M., Keynote Speaker, “40 years of media art practices and cases studies applied to media art education”, Fifth International Online New Media and Education Congress (Videoconference), Anilla Cultural, 5-6 May 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf8yyArzdd4
http://anillaculturaluruguay.net/5-congreso-internacional-online-de-educacion-y-nuevos-medios/
Benayoun, M., Klein, T., Mendoza, N (2019) "Value of values, Transactional Art on the Blockchain", ISEA2019 VoV IVO, Art Center Nabi, Tazak Madang, Seoul, South Korea, June 5, 2019
Benayoun, M., Keynote Speaker, “New Frontiers for Art - From the Brain Waves to the Blockchain”, Content Insight, YSK Media (Hosted by Korea Creative Content Agency, KOCCA), Seoul, Republic of Korea, 9 December 2019.
Benayoun, M., Keynote Speaker, “When Artwork speaks, from VR to Blockchain”, Second Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realization” MSR'19 - SIGGEN event, ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN), Asia World-Expo in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 3 November 2019.
Benayoun, M., Chair of Art Show, “Value of Values by the Brain Factory”, Opening Talk, ACM MULTIMEDIA 2019 Conference, ACM Multimedia, The NICE ACROPOLIS Convention Center, Nice, France, 21-25 October 2019.
Benayoun, M., Invited Speaker, Panel discussion: “Sustainable Transformations”, Sustainable Transformations Seminar Day, ACM Multimedia BOZAR (Brussels), Aalto University (Helsinki), The Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR), Brussels, Belgium, 17 October 2019.
Benayoun, M., Speaker, “Value of Values in the MindSpaces”, Practices & Impacts of STARTS Collaborations, STARTS Day, Ars Electronica Festival 2019, Ars Electronica POSTCITY Linz, Austria, 6 September 2019.
Benayoun, M., Keynote Speaker, “From VR to Transactional Art”, ISEA 2019 x Hyundai Motorstudio, Seoul ARTLAB | Hyundai Motor Company, Hyundai Motorstudio Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 27 June 2019.
Benayoun, M., Lecture, "Value of Values, Speculative Speculations on the Blockchain", ISEA2019 (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Art Center Nabi, Asia Culture Institute (ACI), Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Republic of Korea, June 25, 2019.
Benayoun, M., Keynote Speaker, "Will the VRoovie replace the Movies? From immersion to Critical Fusion, How Media Art opened the path to new narratives beyond the screen: VR, AR and after ...”, International Symposium on Chinese Cinema in the 21st Century, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China, 10-12 May 2019.
Benayoun, M., Keynote speaker, “Matter Doesn’t Matter”, Urban Media Art Academy, Media Architecture Biennale, CAFA, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, 13-18 Nov. 2018.
Benayoun, M., and Klein, T., “From the Brain Factory to Value of Values”, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2018: “Much Ado About Everything - Artist Symposium, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong, 28 October 2018.
Benayoun, M., and Klein, T., “Value of values, Transactional Art on the Blockchain”, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2018: Much Ado About Everything - Unconference, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2018, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 27 October 2018.
Benayoun, M., keynote speaker, “The Digital Outbreak: the End of the End of Art”, The International Conference on Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges: Department of Audio and Visual Arts (Ionian University), Corfu, Greece, 1-3 June 2018
Benayoun, M., moderator, The Aesthetics of Trans Media and the Humanities Across Media Platforms: Philosophy of Trans Media: Transmedia and the Sublime, Dongguk University and Cornell University, Seoul, Korea, 18 May 2018
Benayoun, M., moderator, The Aesthetics of Trans Media and the Humanities Across Media Platforms: Public Artist Screenings and Dialogues, Dongguk University and Cornell University, Seoul, Korea, 18 May 2018
Benayoun, M., invited speaker, To be a Media Artist: Après la peinture, Lycée Français International de Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 20 April 2008
Benayoun, M., keynote speaker, VR, Between Sublimation and Reification: The Avatars of Materiality in the Age of Artificial Virtuality, ACM VRIC, Laval Virtual, Laval France, 30 Mar - 6 Apr. 2018
Benayoun, M., moderator, Panel Discussion: Art and Conflict, Art Central, Hong Kong, 27-31 March 2018
Benayoun, M., invited speaker, Creating the World out of the Human Brain, French consulate of Hong Kong, Asia Society, Hong Kong, Jan. 25, 2018
Benayoun, M., invited speaker, The Genesis at the End of the Beginning, Ecotic symposium, French Embassy, Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 24, 2018
Benayoun, M., invited speaker, Recalculating: Are We Lost in the Future of Art? Institute of Fine Arts, Nanjing University, China, 18 Dec. 2017
Benayoun, M., invited speaker, La Réalité et le Virtuel de la Genèse à l’Apocalypse, in I love Transmedia, La Gaité, Paris, France, 06 Oct., 2017
Benayoun, M., invited speaker, The 1st International Forum for Creative Mobilities, France-Colombia 2017, Grenoble, France, 28-30 Sep 2017
Benayoun, M., keynote speaker, God, the Devil and Us, Artech 2017: the 8th International Conference on Digital Arts, Macau, Artech International / University of Saint Joseph – Faculty of Creative Industries (Macau-China), 6-8 Sep 2017
Benayoun, M., Master’s Class and Workshop, Crossing Cultural Borders and Virtual Obstacles, Workshop, Nanjing University, China, 21-27 August 2017
Benayoun, M., invited speaker, From Information technologies (IT) to VR based art practice through communication obstacles, Lecture, Nanjing University, China, 22 August 2017
Benayoun, M., invited speaker, The obstacle: What kind of obstacle make communication between people of different, origin, location, culture more difficult? Lecture, Nanjing University, China, 23 August 2017
Benayoun, M., keynote speaker, “AI, All Too Human”, in Why future still needs us: AI and humanity and Machination, Robotronica 2017, QUT Art Museum, 2 George St, Brisbane City QLD 4000, Australia, 19 August 2017
Benayoun, M., Master’s class, Goldsmiths University, London, UK, August 10, 2017
Benayoun, M., invited speaker, Urban Media Art and Media Art Practice, Urban Media Art and Media Art Practice, Art and Design Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 13-17 April 2017
Benayoun, M., keynote: Brain Factory, Festival des Bains Numériques, Centre des Arts, Enghien les Bains, France, Paragraphe Université Paris 8 et Réseau Arts Numériques, June 01 – 06, 2016.
Benayoun, M., The Memory Dump, the Disregarded Power of Undone Art, in e-discourse in online networked communities: structure, timing, tone, and affect, ISEA2016, May 16 – 22, 2016, Peer review speaker. ISEA2016_Proceedings Catalogue_P.423-425
Benayoun, M., Overscale Art in Public Space: from Play to Dysplay in “Gigantic: Mediation Beyond Surface”, ISEA2016, City University of Hong Kong, May 16 – 22, 2016, Peer review speaker. ISEA2016_Proceedings Catalogue_P.380-381
Benayoun, M., Urban Media War. the war for Attention, What Urban Digital Art Can Do? Human Vibration, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Chi K11 Art Space, Tsim Sha Tsui. 22.05.2016
Benayoun, M., Invited Speaker, “Re-shuffling values in times of pandemics, When Transactional art provides the thermometer”. Trans Media Art Workshop: Technics Improvised: Thinking Media Art in COVID Time, Dongguk University, 18 November 2020.
https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/activities/reshuffling-values-in-times-of-pandemics-when-transactional-art-provides-the-thermometer(6cb6f124-7d20-4624-bef4-93f587336ab2).html
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwio55rEgpjtAhXjdt4KHQQ5DMkQFjAAegQIBhAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fellak.or.kr%2Fboard_common%2Ffile_download.asp%3FBoard_Key%3D36%26File_Key%3D51%26flag%3D3&usg=AOvVaw1T1n_bUcC2MMk5KdDYmeds
Benayoun, M., Invited Speaker, “Speculative Speculations on Art and Values, How Linking the Brain to the Blockchain Reveals the Value of Human”, Online open lecture, Hong Kong Garden, Ars Electronica Voyage Channel, Ars Electronica Festival 2020, Ars Electronica, MindSpaces & MindSpaces HK / CityUHK, Neuro-Design Lab, ACIM, SCM, CityU, 12 September 2020.
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