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Manga and video games shaped my childhood. Later came electronic music and the early online forums. I grew up alongside the rise of the Internet. I made it my profession, which allowed me to leave my native Belgium and get lost in the cultural capitals of the world.
Reality, offscreen, was messier than TV shows, with technology struggling to conceal the anxieties and buried desires of our times. Moving images and virtual reality became tools for me to explore unknown territories. Their ‘superflat’ aesthetic, to borrow Takashi Murakami’s term, is disrupted by computer glitches, electric cables, and found objects.
My books trace my digressions. In Humans and Their Errors, I delve into ontological errors and their metaphysical implications, while in Digressive Society, I explore the plurality of value systems in culture, economics, and politics. Both collections are continuously revised and updated with new texts and illustrations.
Now based in Paris, I meditate. The great contradictions. The ordinary things. The system errors. The half-awake dreams. And so on.
For any inquiries, please email christophe@bruchansky.name.
Auteur belge et artiste numérique
Les mangas et les jeux vidéo ont bercé mon enfance. Plus tard, ce furent les musiques électroniques et les premiers forums en ligne. J’ai grandi en même temps qu’Internet. J’en ai fait ma profession, ce qui m’a permis de quitter ma Belgique natale et de me chercher dans les capitales culturelles du monde.
Le monde d’aujourd’hui s’est révélé bien plus chaotique que sur le petit écran, la technologie peinant à masquer les angoisses et les désirs enfouis de notre époque. Les images en mouvement et les mondes virtuels sont devenus pour moi des outils d’exploration de territoires inconnus. Leur esthétique superflat, pour reprendre l’expression de Takashi Murakami, y est court-circuitée par des glitches informatiques, des câbles électriques et des objets trouvés.
Mes livres retracent mes digressions. Dans L’être humain et ses erreurs, j’explore les erreurs ontologiques et leurs implications métaphysiques, tandis que dans La société digressive, je traite de la pluralité des systèmes de valeurs dans la culture, l’économie et la politique. Ces deux recueils philosophiques évoluent constamment, enrichis de nouveaux textes et illustrations.
Désormais installé à Paris, je médite. Les grandes contradictions. Les choses ordinaires. Les erreurs du système. Les rêves à demi éveillés. Et cetera.
Exhibitions and Screenings
December 2024 – AI Phantasmagoria screened at the 7th edition of the International Bad Video Art Festival (Italy).
April 2024 – Plastic and Virtual Packaging part of The Anthropocene Project (Germany).
February 2024 – Constructions part of VideoSoundArchive (S9 edition).
November 2023 – AI Phantasmagoria part of the Becoming Machine exhibition (Artsect Gallery, The Wrong Biennale), London, UK.
November 2022 – Chaos group exhibition – Espace d’art Chaillioux , Paris, France.
May 2022 – Constructions screened at Las Cigarreras (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante), curated by ACOA (Contemporary artists from Alicante), Spain.
May 2022 – What you Like, Where you Like, When you Like screened at Surveillance Society. A State of Control exhibition – Rome, Italy.
November 2021 – Circulation, Pas-Perdus and Collective Obsessive-Compulsive Order installations exhibited at the Fall 2021 macparis salon (group of 22 contemporary artists)- Paris, France.
April 2016 – Moving images screened at the Open Show – Toronto, Canada.
June 2015 – “Welcome to Hong Kong” screened at the Under the Subway Videoart Night, Museu Valencià de la Il·lustració i la Modernitat – Valencia, Spain.
June 2013 – “Welcome to Hong Kong” screened at the 3rd edition of Under the Subway Video Art Night – New York, USA.
June 2011 – “Welcome to Hong Kong” screened at the 11th edition of the Images Contre Nature festival – Marseilles, France.
September 2010 – “Welcome to Hong Kong” screened in the Toronto subway, as part of the Toronto Urban Film Festival.
July 2010 – “A week off – the ordeal of scentless” screened at the Temporary Arts Project space – Southend-on-Sea, UK.
April 2009 – “At the bus stop” screened at the Underground City exhibition – London, UK.
February 2009 – “On the couch” screened at the Directors Lounge – Berlin, Germany.
April 2008 – “On the couch” screened at the Artropolis festival – Chicago, USA.
April 2008 – Digital Media Valencia festival – Valencia, Spain.
April 2008 – “Born” screened at the E32 – New York, USA.
April 2008 – “On the couch” screened at the Another Roadside Attraction – London, UK.
January 2007 – Artwork featured on the www.rhizome.org Artbase – New Museum of Contemporary Art – New York, USA.
September 2005 – Moving images screened at the Media Art Friesland festival – Friesland, the Netherlands.
April 2005 – Moving images screened at the European Media Art festival – Osnabrück, Germany.
March 2005 – Artwork referenced by www.shift.jp.org – Japan.
Papers and Talks
August 2024 – Value Pluralism & Plurality of Choice featured in Issue 163 of Philosophy Now magazine.
November 2023 – Speaker at the Becoming Machine “AI art talk” (The Wrong Biennale), London, UK.
November 2022 – Speaker at VRDays Europe (Think Bigger in VR) – Rotterdam, Netherlands
November 2022 – Panelist at XR/Metaverse/Web3 Conference – Metaverse, Germany.
September 2022 – Speaker at Pirate Summit (ethics in IT talk) – Cologne, Germany.
March 2022 – Speaker at The DevOps Conference 2022 (ethics in IT talk)- Finland (remote).
November 2020 – Curator of Post-COVID Urban Mobilities online exhibition – Paris, France.
October 2020 – Editor of Leadership Beyond Hierarchy – Paris, France.
July 2020 – Social: evolversi o morire published in Istmo (Italian).
Apr 2019 – The Future of Digital Communities published in the Disconnect.
October 2017 – Machine Learning: Dealing with Diversity of Meaning published in the AI & Society academic journal.
May 2017 – “The A.I. and Human Brain: Symbiosis or Zero-Sum Game?” workshop with the support of Idea Couture – Toronto, Canada.
July 2016 – Moderator of the City of Dust and Human Zoo discussions (art exhibition openings) – London, UK.
February 2016 – “Echo Chambers in Media and Social Networks” workshop with the support of the Westminster Reference Library – London, UK.
September 2013 – “La société digressive – la mise en perspective culturelle” talk given at the “Transgression : de l’émancipation à la progression” symposium – Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers, France.
February 2013 – “L’expertise soumise à appréciation” talk given at the Philopolis 2013 conference – Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.
July 2011 – The Semiotics of Video Games presented at the 3rd video games cultures conference – Mansfield College, University of Oxford, UK.
June 2011 – Talk about the appropriation of space given at the IXth IIAA conference on Environmental Aesthetics, University of Helsinki – Lahti, Finland.
January 2011, Conversation with Kati Blom on the appropriation of space, from the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture.
September 2010 – “Welcome to Hong Kong” presented at the European Conference on Complex Systems (Lisbon, Portugal).
July 2010: Philosophical concept of mobile capital published in the issue 232 of the “Design, Architecture, Ideas” Ottagono magazine.
February 2010 – Heterotopia of Walt Disney World published in the February 2010 edition of Philosophy Now magazine.
August 2009 – Design for Dreaming workshops and cultural exchange between students in London and Hong Kong.
July 2009 – Dreams of Progress art exhibition – London, UK.