processes of movement
LLMs: The Autophagy of Capitalism In 2002, I conceived an artificial, autonomous corporate entity, software-based, programmed to accumulate capital by any means necessary — which I named the Free Foundation (freefoundation.org). Open-source, built by volunteers, dressed up as a cultural foundation, it would in reality have pursued a single unspeakable goal: to become so powerful
DELETE Work in Progress Work in progress. Premiere: October 9, 2026 Le Cube Garges Creation, design, and programming of the semi-autonomous AI characters for the play DELETE, by Anne Théron. Synopsis DELETE is a hybrid project that stages the confrontation between human, sentient intelligence and artificial intelligence in an immersive scenography blending
I am delighted to announce a new solo exhibition with Galerie Charlot in Paris, running from April 16 to July 6, 2026, exploring the concept of artificial beings through both recent and seminal works. For the past 30 years, I have placed these algorithmic entities, which reproduce fundamental equations of life in the form
10000 Pistes series 2026 gold ink or white ink on black paper (240g) A3 Generative drawing drawn with a UUNATEK drawing machine by custom algorithm Each drawing is unique The 10000 Pistes (10000 Trails) series is a series of unique plotter drawings, and each traced by an algorithm imitating the way animals traverse territories
Behavioral design involves designing and crafting the behaviors of objects intended to interact with humans, so that these objects are perceived as more or less autonomous entities. This entails programming them using concepts from biology, psychology, ethology, behaviorism, and psychoanalysis to give them presence, identity, and a relationship to the world: an Umwelt (being-in-the-world). It s
A visual artist of movement processes, using the spatial and temporal dynamics of light as a main medium, working with architecture interests me in several ways. I develop this interest in the form of temporary or permanent artistic installations integrated into existing architecture, and through collaborations with architectural agencies in order to co-design the architecture
2026 Smart Object The Machine, conceived by Olivier Mevel (of Dal and Nabaztag), is a reinvention of the ultimate machine invented by Artificial Intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky, which implements the minimal action of shutting down as soon as it is turned on. Ultimate But it has its moods, it remembers you, it expresses itself, it
Audio-Visual performance 2025 Franck Vigroux : live music Antoine Schmitt : live images Videopolis delves into an ever transforming urban landcape, in permament mutation. Sound and image combine to construct and deconstruct the profound architecture of their environment. Despite a floating and unstable phenomenology, a blurred and fuzzy perception, discordant and deceitful algorithms, the…
The Umwelt of programs In 1932, the biologist Jacob von Uexküll introduced the notion of Umwelt (1) to designate the modality of being in the world of an animal, its self-centered world : a tick will not see, will not live the world like a jellyfish, or a jellyfish like a human. The same reality of
This is the story of a phishing, of a hacking, of what I learned, and how I counterattacked The phishing It all started with an email from a journalist who wanted to interview me about my artistic work. The email was from a certain Eirik Halvorsen, coming on the behalf of an online art magazine,