Benjamin Gaulon

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Benjamin Gaulon
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Born
Benjamin Gaulon

(1979-06-29) 29 June 1979 (age 46)
Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Seine-et-Marne, France
NationalityFrench
EducationÉcole Supérieure de Arts Décoratifs and Frank Mohr Institute
Known for interactive art, programming, generative art, digital art, net art, physical computing, net art, circuit bending, glitch art
Notable workRecyslism
Website www.recyclism.com

Benjamin Gaulon (born 29 March 1979 in Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Seine-et-Marne, France) is a French artistresearcher, educator and cultural producer whose work explores the environmental and social impacts of consumer technologies. Since the early 2000s, his practice has addressed issues such as planned obsolescence, consumerism, disposable society and consumer culture through circuit bending, hardware hacking, and media archaeology. He has previously released work under the name "recyclism". More recently, Gaulon has expanded his research into ecological and technological symbiosis, co-founding the collective Nø (2018) [1] and Nø School Nevers (2019) [2] , and developing projects such as the Internet of Living Things (2025).

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Biography

Benjamin Gaulon is known for critical interventions that repurpose consumer technologies and question the lifecycle of electronic devices. His projects often address obsolescence, electronic waste, and the hidden infrastructures of networked systems, through interactive installations, workshops, and performances. [3] [4]

He received a degree in Visual Communication from l'École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg and a MFA in Interactive Media & Environment from the Frank Mohr Institute. During his time at the Frank Mohr Institute, he developed several high-profile projects, including de Pong Game, [5] [6] the Recycling Entertainment System, [7] [8] The PrintBall [9] [10] [11] and Corrupt. [5]

After Graduating, Benjamin Gaulon started leading 'D.A.T.A. (Dublin Art and Technology Association) and co-founded the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art in 2007. Since 2005, in collaboration with Lourens Rozema, he is running workshops entitled the e-waste workshops [12] , inviting participants to create art projects from recycled electronic waste.

From 2006 to 2013, he was a lecturer in fine art media at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, where he taught courses on digital media, electronics, and critical approaches to technology. [3]

From 2013 to 2018, Benjamin Gaulon was Assistant Professor and Program Director at Parsons Paris, where he launched and directed the BFA in Art, Media & Technology (2013) and the MFA in Design + Technology (2014). He also served on key academic committees and contributed to faculty recruitment, training, and student advising. [13]

In 2018, Benjamin Gaulon co-founded the collective Nø [1] with artist Dasha Ilina, a non-profit dedicated to promoting emerging art and design research on the environmental and social dimensions of information and communication technologies (ICTs). [2]

Since 2019, he has also been co-director of Nø Nevers, an annual summer school and festival in Nevers, France, combining workshops, lectures, and exhibitions on digital culture and critical design. [2] [14] [15]

He currently teaches at SciencesPo, École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (diplôme en Recherche-Création, ARRC), CentraleSupélec – Université Paris-Saclay, and is a regular lecturer at HEAD – Genève (Haute école d'art et de design). [2]

Notable projects

Exhibitions

Selected exhibitions, screenings and performances include:

References

  1. 1 2 "Association Nø". www.nowebsite.org. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Nø School website" . Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  3. 1 2 Gaulon, Benjamin. "Benjamin Gaulon – Recyclism". Recyclism.com. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  4. ↑ "SICT Doctoral School < Benjamin Gaulon". SICT Doctoral School. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 Contact coinop: Comment (22 March 2006). "Interview/Article by Brucker-Cohen, Jonah. Gizmodo Gallery: Benjamin Gaulon. Gizmodo (Mar 22, 2006)". Gizmodo.com. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  6. 1 2 "Clement, Thiery. "de Pong Game" Regarde (July, 2007)". Regarde.org. Archived from the original on 4 November 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  7. 1 2 "O'Shea, Chris. The Res. Pixelsumo August 2005". Pixelsumo.com. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  8. 1 2 "Kirn, Peter. Create Digital Music. The Res: Multiplayer Mac Music with 6 NES Controllers (August 2005)". Createdigitalmusic.com. 3 August 2005. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  9. 1 2 "O'Shea, Chris. Printball by Recyclism. Pixelsumo August 2005". Pixelsumo.com. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  10. 1 2 "Zjawinski, Sonia. "Graffiti Hackers". Wired Magazine Issue 13.12, December 2005". Wired. 4 January 2009. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  11. 1 2 """PrintBall" Paintball Inkjet Printer" core77 July 2005". Core77.com. 1 July 2005. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  12. ↑ "Recyclism E-Waste Workshop". recyclism.com. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  13. ↑ "Parsons Paris' MFA DT/BFA AMT Director Benjamin Gaulon in Fast Company - Art, Media, & Technology". Art, Media, & Technology. 27 October 2015. Archived from the original on 20 May 2025. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  14. ↑ Ferreira, Elsa (21 March 2024). "NØ School : Apprendre à s'émanciper du capitalisme". Makery (in French). Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  15. ↑ Champaulaune, Gwénola (3 May 2021). "Technologies de l'information - La No School revient, pour sa 2e édition, du 28 juin au 10 juillet, à la manufacture Montagnon à Nevers". Le Journal du Centre . Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  16. ↑ "digitalrecycling: online digital trash recycling center". recyclism.com. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  17. ↑ "Turbulence Spotlight 2004". Turbulence.org. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  18. ↑ – Ludovico, Alessandro. "Corrupt, software for rotting pictures". Neural (magazine) , November 2017
  19. ↑ "Menkman, Rosa. "From enchanting to the default cultivation of artifacts, From software art to generic manipulation. Sunshine in my throat, July 2009"". Rosa-menkman.blogspot.com. 22 July 2009. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  20. ↑ "Turbulence Spotlight 2010". Turbulence.org. 21 October 2010. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  21. ↑ "Canonico, Tony. "2.4 kHz, detourned surveillance". Neural Magazine. February 2008". Neural.it . Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  22. ↑ Brucker-Cohen, Jonah. "Sniff wireless video cameras with 2.4Ghz". Makezine. February 2008 Archived 25 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  23. ↑ Michael Lithgow (3 March 2008). "Lithgow, Michael. "Broadcasting the panopticon: Art project transforms wireless surveillance into public art". Art Threat. March 2008". Artthreat.net. Archived from the original on 7 July 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  24. ↑ "reBlog. "FC#3 – Self-portraits by Benjamin Gaulon". Eyebeam. July 2010". Eyebeam.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  25. ↑ "Visnjic, Filip. "5 Twitter Art Projects – Volume 3" Creative Applications, March 2010"". Creativeapplications.net. 13 January 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  26. ↑ "Lechner, Marie. "Techno : recyclage à l'oeuvre" Libération, March 2011"". Ecrans.fr. 28 March 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  27. ↑ "Residency Benjamin Gaulon | Creative Coding Utrecht". creativecodingutrecht.nl. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  28. ↑ "The Internet of Dead Things – Benjamin Gaulon". CreativeApplications.Net. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
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