Maurice Benayoun

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Full Name	Maurice Benayoun
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Mar 29, 1957(1957-03-29)
Age	67
Birthplace	Mascara
Country	Algeria
Birth City	Mascara Province
Horoscope	Pisces

Maurice Benayoun Biography

Maurice Benayoun is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on March 29, 1957 in Mascara, Mascara Province, Algeria. Born in Mascara (Algeria) in March 1957 to a father who died in the Algerian independence conflict. Following his mother and brother, he moved to France in 1958 to live in the popular suburbs of north Paris, where he spent most of his childhood.

The history of the concept: Maurice Benayoun, an author, artist, and theorist, wanted to distinguish between visual realism that is based on how the world reflects light and Infra-realism. This refers to the “deep realism beneath the surface”, where shapes are created from principles drawn from biology, optics, chemistry, or physics. This could be called procedural, parametric or generative simulation. Maurice Benayoun illustrated the concept by using light effects to distinguish visually represented water. These light effects can be translated into colors or shades. Fluid simulation and light propagation algorithms allow for the same effects. 3D graphics can simulate clouds, water, smoke, and even behavior like flocks or fishes. Even light reflection can be used to apply physical phenomena. More than just automatizing visual analogy like painters and photographers, 3D computer graphic realism is an activation to the sub-layers of reality.

Based on real time graphics, virtual reality and augmented reality make an extensive use of infra-realism. The VR artworks created after 1993 by Maurice Benayoun like “Is the Devil Curved” or the “Tunnel under the Atlantic” often refer to the concept of infra-realism even regarding the use of artificial intelligence.

In 1993, he received the Villa Medicis Hors Les Murs award for his Art After Museum project, a virtual reality contemporary art collection. After 1994 Benayoun was involved with more virtual-reality and interactive-art installations. One important work from this period includes The Tunnel under the Atlantic, completed in 1995. For his first solo show, Maurice Benayoun, was presenting a Virtual Reality installation linking two big museums: the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal. More than a technical performance, that it was too as the first intercontinental virtual reality artwork (called “televirtuality”, Philippe Quéau, 1994), this installation was one-of-a-kind example of what Maurice Benayoun calls architecture of communication, another way to explore the limits of communication presaging the rise of the phatic in human communication.

Benayoun studied Contemporary and Fine Arts. His practice quickly moved to photography, video, and computer graphics. Benayoun was a director of video installations and short videos on contemporary artists in the 1980s. These included Daniel Buren (1983), Jean Tinguely (1983), Sol LeWitt (1985) and Martial Raysse (85). His Fine Arts background is what he keeps, as well as a conceptual and critical approach to practice. He co-founded Z-A Production (1987-2003), a private computer graphics and Virtual Reality lab that was one of the most innovative companies in France during this period. He began exploring the possibilities of the most advanced media from this point. Francois Schuiten, a Belgian graphic novelist, collaborated with Benayoun on Quarxs between 1990 and 1993. This was the first animated series using HD computer graphics. It explored variant creatures with different physical laws. Quarxs won numerous international awards.

Maurice Benayoun Net Worth

Maurice Benayoun is one of the richest Artist from Algeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Maurice Benayoun 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Maurice Benayoun, also known as MoBen, was born 29 March 1957. He is a French pioneer and contemporary new-media artist, curator, and theorist. He is based in Paris, Hong Kong. His media include video, computer graphics and immersive virtual reality. He also uses performance, EEG, 3D Printing and large-scale urban media art installations. Maurice Benayoun’s work is often conceptual and a critical examination of the changes in society that are triggered by new or recent technologies.

In order to finance his studies, Benayoun became a secondary school teacher of literature and fine arts in 1978. Benayoun received his degree in Fine Arts from Pantheon-Sorbonne University in the 1980s. This was while he was still teaching full-time. In 1982, he was awarded Aggregation d’Arts Plastiques. This highly competitive degree in French education led to a tenure post, which opened the doors to University teaching. He was an assistant professor at Paris 1 University Pantheon-Sorbonne from 1984 to 2010. From there, he was the co-founder of and art director for the CITU research centre (Creation Interactive Transdisciplinaire Universitaire). He developed numerous national, European, and international collaborative Art and Science research programs at CiTu. Between 1995 and 1997, Benayoun served as the Invited Artist, Professor, and Director at ENSBA (the French National School of Fine Arts). Maurice Benayoun submitted The Dump, a blog of undone art projects in 2008 as a doctorate thesis entitled Artistic Intentions At Work, Hypothesis For Committing Art at Universite France 1, La Sorbonne. The PhD thesis was supervised by Prof. Anne-Marie Duguet and awarded “mentiontres honorables, avec felicitations au jury” (First-Class Honors With Distinction). The defense before an international panel of examiners, published in 2011, was fully recorded.

In a seminal text, Art After Museum (1993), Benayoun coins SAS as any kind of interface that allows to go from the physical space to the virtual Reality space. Explaining the technology may evolve, but the necessity to have a transition from the “real” to the space of fiction that we call “Virtual Reality”. SAS is a French word coming from the Latin, that designs the apparatus that allows us to go from a human-compatible space to a more “hostile” environment. The airlock system in a submarine, or the double door system in a bank are a “sas”. So are the CAVE VR system or the VR Head Mounted Display. The SAS Cube created in 2000–2001, was the first PC based cube of Virtual Reality.

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History of the concept: Maurice Benayoun first introduced the concept of Critical Fusion to define his action in the virtual or physical public space. Watch Out! in the streets of Seoul (2002), helps people understand that they are at the same time Big Brother and his victims. Other works like NeORIZON in Shanghai and All the series Mechanics of Emotions, even online are considered based on the same principle: Using facts, data, to present the emotional state of the World in the future (Emotions Forecast, 2011).

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Maurice Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Algeria. Maurice Benayoun celebrates birthday on March 29 of every year.

In 2003, Benayoun presents in Marseilles, France, a performance/conference anticipating the future of the Internet of Objects, IoT. He describes the behavior of objects in our environment that have a strong social impact and alter deeply our daily life. He suggests avoiding an excessive submissive behavior that would amplify our natural inclinations and limit the potential of the unexpected. In an ironic fictional research project, He proposes the creation of an “Integrated Psychic Disorder Generator”. The Behavioural Design is the design of connected and AI-driven objects based on social concerns and artificial life models.