David Guez english

2009
	HUMANPEDIA - GENE WIKIPEDIA Description here
2008/2009
	DOTRED DotRed Project’s aim is to create a multiplayer on-line game, using web social networking utilities to bring users together for humanitarian and social purposes, focusing on the transition from the virtual world to the real world. DotRed’s first mission is to simulate real estate market and housing project issues by giving users the opportunity to buy a part of ‘Virtual Paris’, shared in one million 100m2 parcels, each one of them worth 2 euros. This corresponds to inner Paris’ surface area, i.e. 100 000 000 m2. In a graphic and playful interface, in 3D and using Google Map principles, this social game’s aim is to collect around 1 million euro, to be redistributed to a specialized and recognized charity. - Grant - Scam 2008 - Exhibition Center Pompidou 24 may 2008 & ISEA 2009 BELFAST.
	RG2012 - réseaux ghettos 2012 As an artist, I try to create some ways to give me enough reason to play with the new social networks that are facebook, myspace, viadeo… consider myself like a demiurge virtual. So I started a short time ago what I call “raiser of social network”. I use the term of raiser in his most pejorative sense possible because I think that the real demiurge, the ones that control the rule of these social network applications, are tied to this spirit of control of the identity of the masses but I am aware that each, in his own way and in a reflexive manner has the need and the right to identify himself with these new territories.
2005/2007
	Second France Second France is a participative utopia v2.0 by David Guez & Christophe Bruno. Launching at the Nuit Blanche de Paris 2007, both on Second Life and at the Hotel D’Albret, rue des Francs Bourgeois, during the collective show Second Night.
	Disque Dur Papier Project to archive our numerical memoy on paper. + interview with the art critic Elisabeth Lebovici - Juin 2007 -
	Interlligence is a new way to communicate with anyone with the internet network via a classical e-mail client (thunderbird, outlook...). Interlligence tries to match social network and questions opened by collective intelligence.
Hypermoi	The Hypermoi sets the hypothesis of the existence of a 'numerical ego' linked up to the internet network. This special 'Ego' would be a construction linked to our more and more 'emotional' and 'intensive' Web practice and of its associated technologies. (This project is under construction but you can read the text on http://www.hypermoi.net)
1400cm3	1400cm3 is a web2 community platform intented being a strong alternative to myspace. It aggregates thousand of contents into a friendly interface. It has been a 'carte blanche' of the french newspaper "Libération/ecrans.fr"
2067:email@futur	2067 proposes to send an email message in the future via Internet. The concept being simple, 2067 actually focuses on its consequences : waiting, memory and correspondence but also on the aspect of relativity of our conscience towards time and Others. 2067 is the first project of the « Hypermoi.net » serial that claims the existence of an "Ego" related to Internet.
Xor.hypermoi.net	XOR: Exhibition in the gallery 'la jeune creation' - May 2006 Publication on Sklunk review
2003/2004
CANAL AUDIO WEB 2.	Bewac is a sound installation where people can phone to a normal phone number and let sounds, songs, screams...which are audio streamed on a web site. Bewac is an independant media. (This is the second version on this project).
EKART	Ekart is an electronic art center in open share/access based on the use and the propagation of a key word via the networks peer to peer. Ekart propagate the idea of the end of the WWW.
MONITORAGE .	Monitorage is a textual webcam focus on this billion of words which circulate in the network Peer to peer and which form a collective cartography of our forbidden desires. MONITORAGE post in quasi real time the keywords typed by the users of the networks peer to peer (estimate of a thousand of word at the minute).it shows on a flash website all this words in a banner ticker way and/or a screensaver.
2000/2002
*	Journal intime de " KIM WINGSENG ", premier homme télétransporté. Palais de Tokyo, texte.
Videofluxus.net	Videofluxus is a platform wich permit to stream and to collaborate with sound, video, text and chat. Its a independant collaborative common media project using P2P technology.
Margo	Performance - Ouverture 8 - Follie's pigalle, Paris. Margo is a virtual puppet who use the chat video network to cultivate some strange post-biological plants.
HERO(ES) :	http://enbalyon.free.fr/heroesse/projet.html Exposition au Beaux-arts de LYON « LE HALL » During an exhibition in the gallery of the Art School of LYON, I did a workshop with many artists and students about the idea that there is no hero anymore, the network is the hero.
Wonderland TV	Wonderland TV is a collective TV happening streamed on the web and a live performance showed during the Belfort festival. more than 40 artists worked on this project.
1999
BEWAC - Web Audio Canal galerie " public ", paris	Bewac is a sound installation where people can phone to a normal phone number and let sounds, songs, screams...which are audio streamed on a web site. Bewac is an independant media.
Snap shoot kill'art	Ouverture 4, au château de Bionnay What happen when you ask to artists to become art critics in front of a video camera during a exhibition where everybody can hear what others said...
Teleweb.org - 1999-2004	TELEWEB.ORG is a public media art project that enables free access and free creation of Web-TV and Web-Radio. Teleweb has more that 1500 webtv streamed on the web.(voir presse)
Tv-art.net - 1999-2002	A place of experimentation and innovation, TV-ART.NET is the first interactive television that transmits its programmes over the Web. TV-ART.NET aims to create an overview of contemporary art. More than 500 videos are streamed on tv-art.net. Get the 'Scam' Price in France.
1996/1999
	Série "99% recycled Internet"/Les antipodes. The Antipodes are installations and visual sculptures that use the "living" as plastic matter and the Internet as a means to transmit and transform. A computer/video machine captures the material in a precise place and transmits it to the Internet. The Internet then transforms it and projects it in different locations around the world. The Internet is considered as a body, with a flow of matters entering, being transformed, and then exiting
Crême de beauté "Si j'étais vous"	JANVIER 99, Performance/Installation - ELECTROFOLIE 1 - Atheneum - Dijon & Web Bar IF I WERE YOU : The installation/performance proposes the creation of a beauty cream ! Everyday, each visitor will be received in an intimate space where I will catch an image of one of its beauty spots as well as confidences as his futur. Each grain will be digitized and established in a visual and sound universe accessible on Internet. In parallel, a small laboratory of cosmetic will allow the realization of a true beauty cream where the principal elements of its manufacture (water, oil and binder) will be illuminated projections of the images of the grains coming from Internet. A limited series of pots of cream "if I were you" will be the result of this cycle where the virtual and the real are mixed.
Les jours me tiennent en sommeil	OCTOBRE 98 - Installation - web bar. Days Keep Me Asleep : A bed made of white flowers and shrouded in a veil receives, continuously and in real time, an influx of images originating from Internet newsgroups.Urinals placed around the bed allow the flowers to be moistened during special "watering sessions" in which spectators have access to watering cans filled with a special preparation of eau de vie.At the closing of the exhibit, there will be a limited series of vials labeled "99% RECYCLED INTERNET," filled with recycled eau de vie.
Caramels eden eden	SEPTEMBRE 1997 - ART3000 - Parthenay Various areas of Parthenay will be filmed and projected via internet onto a statue made of sugar. This statue will be created, little by little, throughout the exhibition. This sugar statue will be placed in a special spot in the town of Parthenay, and bathed in traditional music of Poitevine. The statue will develop thanks to the morcels of sugar that each resident adds to it. After the statue is built the sugar will be turned into caramel and shared with the members of the town.
La voix lactée	MAI 1997 - CICV- Montbéliard. The Antipode "Milky Voice" was an installation that revolved around a bathtub filled with milk in the town of Terre Blanche. Portraits of the residents of the Valley of Terres Blanches, taken during the exhibit, were vidÈo projected non-stop onto the milk-filled bathtub. Once a day, David Guez wrote texts and Michael Barbaud played improv on the piano next to the bathtub. At the end of the expo the milk, which was considered to be a filter of images and emotions, was bottled.
1995/1996
	Le livre des liens The "book of links" is a mix of texts, pictures and experiments showed on the web with the main idea that "my art is the other"(aesthetic relationnel). This is the first project I did on internet.

ISEA2009, Belfast, 2009
Maison des métallos, Paris, Futur en Seine, 2009
Exposition « une autre histoire » - Centre d'art – Meudon, févr-mars 2009.
Dotred : Espace des Blancs Manteaux, Paris, Nov 2008.
RG2012 : Maison des arts de Malakoff, Nov 2008
DotRed: Festival Reality, Les mondes virtuels, Paris, Nov 2008.
DotRed: Festival Nuit Numérique, Reims, Oct 2008.
HAC, Nuit Blanche 2008, Centre Fleury, Barbara Goutte d'or, Octobre 2008.
DotRed : Centre Pompidou, mai 2008.
Performance RG2012, Vidéoformes, mars 2008
Performance RG2012, , internet mon amour, Centre Pompidou, février 2008
Second France - Nuit blanche 2007, Hotel d'Albret, Paris, 2007
00130gallery, Helsinky, Finland, 2007
Filefestival, Brésil, 2006.
[R][R][F] 2004--->XP - Version>04 Festival, Chicago/USA, 2004.
T-Deus, Belgique - Avril 2004.
Console, Paris - Avril 2004.
Palais de Tokyo du Journal intime de " KIM WINGSENG ", 2001.
Centre Pompidou, les cinémas de demain, 2001.
Interactive screen. BANFF, Canada, 2001.
Viper festival, Bâle, Suisse, 2000.
Festival international du nouveau cinéma & des nouveaux médias, Montréal, 2000.
WWVF (world wide video festival), Amsterdam, 2000.
Festival Net.congestion, Amsterdam, 2000.
European Media art festival, Osnabruck, Allemagne, 2000.
Version 2000, Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Genève, Suisse, 2000.
Free biennal, New York, 2001.
Le Bewac – galerie Public, Paris, 1999.
Ouverture 4 - château de Bionnay,1999.
TV WONDERLAND, Nuits savoureuses de Belfort,1999.
Performance/Installation "Crème De Beauté Si j'étais vous " - Atheneum – Dijon,1999.
Exposition "les caramels Eden Eden", Parthenay,1997.

XOR : Galerie de la jeune création, 2006.
HEROESSE : « Le Hall », Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 2001.
Les jours me tiennent en sommeil : Web Bar, 1998.
Crème de beauté « Si j'étais vous » : Web Bar, 1999.

Conférence à la Maison des métallos, Futurs en Seine, Paris.
Festival K3, lorient – Mars 2009 – atelier & conférence.
Cité des sciences, La villette - Paris - Décembre 2008
UPgrade, Maison Pop , Montreuil, Nov 2008
DotRed : Festival Nuit Numérique, Reims - Octobre 2008
Ecole supérieure D'architecture et d'art graphique, Ivry, étudiants de Dominique Moulon - Octobre 2008
DotRed : Forum des usages coopératifs, Brest - juillet 2008
Le net et l'argent : l'expérience DotRed. Le plateau, frac ile de france - juillet 2008
DotRed : Conférence Centre Pompidou - mai 2008
DotRed : Carrefour des possibles, Paris - mai 2008
Les réseaux sociaux : Vidéoformes, mars 2008
Internet mon amour, Centre Pompidou, février 2008
Présentation du projet « 2067, email@futur » à la BNF (par Annick Rivoire), 2007.
Carte blanche libération : Lancement de 1400cm3, 2006.
Revue Slunk : Xor, l'art est un souvenir, 2006.
Beaux-arts de Dijon - Mars 2004.
Digital Flaherty, New York, atelier en réseau, 2001.
Art scènes, numéro 13 « Nous sommes tous notre propre média », 2001
Publication dans la revue POST « le téléphone arabe : vers un nouveau média ? »,2000
Preload, St Charles, Paris I, 2000.
Forum des images, Paris, 2000.
FIAC 1999, stand du ministère de la Culture – DAP, 1999.
La voix lactée, Terres Blanches, Montbéliard,1998.
Accès local, Paris,1998.
SAGA - Art en réseaux,1996.
Le livre des liens - MILIA,1996.
Atelier aux Beaux-arts de Nantes, 1999.
Résidence au CICV à Montbéliard,1996.

Médias

Presse Internationale
New York Times (US) , Le Soir (Belgique) , Siol (Slovenie) , BandNewsfm (Brésil), International Herald tribune (US) , Esp(Chine), Haaretz (Israel), Cotidianul (Roumanie), Referans(Turquie), Chicago suntime (US), ABCNews(US), Deutschwell(Radio Allemande),DZ(Algérie).
Presse nationale
Le Monde, Télérama, Beaux-arts Mag,Les Inrockuptibles, Ecrans.fr, Métro, Libération, La Tribune, Le Point, Transfert, Broadcast, L'internaute, Marianne, SVM, DigitalNews, Newsmédias, Netsurf, Tribeca, Télérama, Camera,Le Journal du dimanche.
Radio
France Culture, France Inter, Rtbf1, France bleu, BFM...
TV
CANAL +, NPA I, France 5, Paris Première, RiveDroite/Rive Gauche
Books
Art et Internet, collection "imaginaire : mode d'emploi" aux éditions cercle d'art.
Guide du numérique, aux éditions MCD.

Aide à la production - CNC - Dicream 2008
Prix Scam - rêve d'un brouillon numérique - 2008
Aide à la maquette, projet Hypermoi, CNC (Dicream) - 2007 -
Prix de la scam - 2000 -
Subvention DAP – Tv-art.net - 1999 -

Internet as a medium
My art is to create context and public spaces open to other's content.1998 : Streaming sound and video on the web.
Gives the hability to show and to stock content and to find your own public.
As artists, why not creating our own channel using the low cost and the easy making of the web1999 : TV-ART.NET : the art channel
Small team/ Dv camera/ Easy Computer editing
TV.ART IS AN INDEPENDANT MEDIA MADE BY ARTISTS
Ideas :
Why the power to show art content as to be in hands of classic media (in fact, classic media don't even show contemporary art)?
May be internet can be a new model to provide your own content and share it with a potential public.
It has to stay low tech (if it's too big, it's too expensive and it can stop (see the .COM aventure).
500 Programs, 10 open channel to artists. 1999 : BEWAC (canal audio web)
Use your classic phone to provide content on the web.Finding new ways to provide public content, new ways to let free expression going on (no filter, no power)
Mix old and new technology because old technology is use by 99% of people.
Also create funny new media.
Bewac goes a step forward than tvart (the idea of self media is growing): not provide only art content but all kind of content. 2000 : teleweb.org : the self mediaThe idea of self media : create your own web channel and share your content on a community web site.
If you are alone making your own channel, nobody will see your content (internet is too big)
Use all the ressources of the free web : free hosting, free tools.
Sharing technology : VERY IMPORTANT !!! (We dont have to let the power of knowledge make the web mysterious and in the hand of happy few tech and money people) : it's like "eh , it's very difficult to do, let me do it (as like "let me have the power on you")Teleweb explain how to create and manage a webtv with a very low budget.
Teleweb is non profit, non commercial, non ad public web site.
Teleweb is independant of streaming technologies (real, mpeg, flash,quicktime,divx...)
Teleweb cost nothing so teleweb cant die !!! (in one year, infrance more then 7 big webtv close because of the dot com failure)
Teleweb is a part of free webtv network all over the world. (see freespeech.org - Indymedia )
Teleweb has more then 1000 webtv created in one year.
My aim is to share teleweb and to devellop it in english as well as I get lots of asking from africa and from into devellpement countries.
Teleweb works like an open source art idea (see http://artlibre.org/ )It ask lots of questions about copyright (and copyleft) , about new ways to create and redistribute content.
2001 : Videofluxus.net : the meeting mediaWhat teleweb can't do is to stream live content on the web (very expensive platform)
Videofluxus is a new way to stream content.
it uses the peer to peer technology (you dont need a big central server to spread content ... it's like the napster tech)
Videofluxus is like a audio-video-chat Live media.
I have made a partner with the ivisit technology (which is usually rather expensive but i get it free ) to create a free platform wich give the ability to provide live content with even a modem.
2003/2004 EKART (http://ekart.free.fr)Ekart is an electronic contemporary art center in open share/access based on the use and the propagation of a key word via the networks peer to peer.
Ekart uses the greatest world bases of exchange and resource sharing which are networks P2P (peer to peer).
The contents of ekart are free, in emission and diffusion, and it evolves/moves perpetually according to the artists who share their works (text, image, sound, video, software...) on P2Pnetworks .
Ekart works on the principle of the propagation and the contamination of a key word.
By using competences of the networks peer to peer, ekart recovers all the properties and all of it the questionnements.
Ekart is a viral textual proposal.
Ekart proposes to leave the Web in an elegant and minimalist way

The web is the working model in process of our univers in which space, time and memory, as well as the dynamical process of evolution proper to any organism are forming all together a complex system of relations, that is, in fine something one could call an « intelligence ».

This very special intelligence might be different from ours regarding to its capacity of organizing its time on a dynamical and parallels ways instead of a chronological one.

Plunging into the entrails of an abstract form that possesses our secrets, our desires as well as our relations to the others and therefore is the more acute and useful witness of our social evolution might then be a way - de facto - of plunging into the unknown of our consciousness.

We can therefore ask ourselves whether this intelligence would not be able to give us some clues regarding the fundamental questions of human being as a child building his identity reflects ours.

The fact of playing with time and correspondence by sending a message in the future is a way of beginning some sort of correspondence in which desire and waiting will play their part and even may be the anguish of an Unknown out of ourselves and therefore out of control.

What shall one answer to the past ? Especially if this past is now itself out of control ? What conclusion shall one draw of this revelation ?

WE ARE HERE IN PRESENCE OF A REAL "Ego" IN THE NET THAT IS « HYPERMOI.NET » IN WHICH THE NET IS THE CAUTION, CAUTION AND GUARDIAN OF A SECRET.

The web being a kind of temporarily space in which invisible kind of interactions take place by the mean of meetings with shadows, these "phantoms" being ourselves, ourselves at different times of our lives.

Answering a phantom that is answering one’s self by laying one more message to an unknown adress in time to another one’s self in a few years and therefore generate a weird kind of correspondence from a spirit to another spirit through place, time and period.

How shall one continue this correspondence if one does not free himself of the notion of time ? And much more than a « daily time » question, it is here a question related to one’s analysis of his own experience and what it provoked through the time that has passed by since a « dated question ».

We now have to experience and understand the consequences of these new forms of correspondences and go further in the propositions of the «HYPERMOI.NET», this "I" or "Ego" related to the net, this "Moi-network".

RG2012 is a programmed fiction which uses the search engines of the contemporary social networks to create devices where the spectator becomes the actor and the victim, in spite of him, of genocides and human catastrophes of the future and passed.

In the shape of a fictional screen, it reinvests the network facebook and the social networks and its truths a-avatars ** by redrawing by simple semantic formulas the genealogy of an organized human crime.

RG2012 is a computer program with the algorithmic rules of genocide, a kind of coding of the end of the species.

Whatever is your profile, your meeting zones, your groups of affiliation, your exchanges in the cartography of your virtual hyper-me , you are under certain algorithmic conditions, the programmed victims of project RG2012.

RG2012 moves this identity question of the subculture of the Nineties with a contemporary hypo-culture * futuro of the years 2012. This identity voyage transfers it onto past or future maps, onto tronbinoscopes, photographs of groups to clarify the monstrous capacity that a totalitarian company of the past or future would have to use the data bases of today so precise generated by the new forms of social networks.

In the area of exposition, a series of slogans, texts, tracs, lists, booklets with the names, the picture, the precise characteristics analyzed and picked via these search engines, of the charts on the walls, posters with the effigy of a global face, fictional videos showing the way to generate these lists, objects derived of the madness of RG2012 reintroduces within the framework of a reflexive and individualized good. (the tee-shirt or the mug to remember...)The general principle being the filtering of the lists of the people registered on facebook according to X criteria in lists "useful" for the genocide plans of RG2012: (for example, the list of the people registered on facebook of Jewish religion which lives Warsaw), the invitation being all the more strong as it initially addresses these same people alive and registered in these networks to come see themselves projected inside these fictions.

* Elements of an hypo-culture : A group on facebook exists based on a semantic data resulting from a segment of collective memory (Nutella for example). It satify itself as its cardinality increases, it has no value within the meaning of its engagement: it can dissolve itself as it was created because it engages only the volatile value of a memory, its fiction is sufficient and makes it possible to release a space poor but consequent enough for... the meeting.

** a-avatar : Contrary to second life or the massively multi player video games, facebook portray us as an avatar conditioned by its own finality: an A-avatar is a vacant and serene person, fully opened to humanity whole and ready to offer under the raison of the virtual friendship the totality of its reality.

We have become the slaves of our projections, the others becoming the reflexive stimulate of this condition of slave, facebook is a kind of tautology of mass, a Utopia carried out in a few months which marks the last steps in a collapse of values and history to profit a schizophrenia of group alienated by its own individual values returned face to face without extensive possibility to fix itself : the social networks are the contemporary ghettos of our own emotional misery and our incapacity to sail in the geography of reality.

The characteristic of Facebook and the social networks are their capacity to completely federate in an exponential way several million people around a tool simple to use related to a completely transcendental concept of all our society: friends. A friend, it is, to a certain extent, the other acceptable one, the one who receives and who returns in a way or another something that resembles us or that resembles those who resemble us, some kind of lowest common denominator of the otherness which, under Facebook takes all its direction since under this concept of friend includes coworkers, genealogy, true friends, those who met us in all hazard at parties or events and with which we possibly exchanged few words, then those never met but, from mutual friends to other mutual friends, fit in with one or another of our profile’s criteria.

To setup an account on facebook, it is to describe in a precise way what we are: our sex, our religion, our political tendency... then it is, through exchanges, to use an interface which quickly replaces our email, chat room, calendar of events which mark out our social life, the place where we post our videos, our musical tastes... thus to a certain extent, facebook becomes the Web, or at least the central tool from which we decline the Web.

Then, from its ability to let us install add-on applications which will enrich the exchanges, facebook gradually engage us in a rather mental universe, a universe where we are "never alone again" and where this strong feeling of a unity in time and space in which we can intervene at any moment meet the ideal conditions of a form of quasi schizophrenic dependence..

All these elements push us to open ourselves up in a permeable way, increased by the fact that each one invites the other to be part of his “oneself” relatively easily.

This permeability enables us to forget, to escape, leads to a causal chain of collapse of identities and with a certain level of use, leads to a loss of reality and disturbs our capacity to protect our private data.

Because Facebook signals the end of the phantasm as an actual phantasm and closes again this possibility of saying "no" or "not all the way there", for instance it closes this possibility to mark the limits of physical and conceptual territories: then what are we becoming?

Under this principle of "never alone again", facebook invites us to strip ourselves completely!

Because what could be more beautiful than our nudity in face of the nudity of the other, all the passages are possible, all the intentions are on the same territorial value: friendship is not far from love, love of the other, self-love in the other.

But this love has a price which is public nudity, nudity offered to a private company certainly full of good intentions, certainly, but which has only monetary performance for analysis goal. This performance does not either have a real value except the value to sacrifice nudity to "surgical" programs which cut up the words: machines semantic connected to priorities of sale and purchase: a sum of words integrated into equations which generate images and individualized slogans.

So on one side there is the analytical machine and on the other side, the machine of phantasms, and the semantic Web of an antique google now produces a new landscape: a Web object, composed of a bunches of human naked and codified into a reducing genetic, which invents a new Fascism formed with the algorithm and the programming and which has freed himself from time and space.