Maurice Benayoun - AKA MoBen, is a Chair Professor, media art pioneer, and theorist based in Nanjing, Hong Kong, and Paris, whose accolades span from the Ars Electronica Golden Nica to the Siggraph among close to 30 international awards. Bridging Art and Science, Benayoun’s interdisciplinary practice traverses freely between media boundaries, from virtual reality to large-scale public art installations, AI, BCI ElectroEncephaloGraphy, Economy (Blockchain, NFTs...), and Sociology. His works have been exhibited across major international museums in over 30 countries worldwide including the Pompidou Center (Paris), Musée d’Art Contemporain de Paris, Arc de Triomphe, Grand Palais, La Villette Science Museum (Paris), MAC (Lyon), FACT (UK), KIASMA (Helsinki), Ars Electronica Center (Austria), V2 (Nederland), ZKM (Germany), CCCB (Barcelona), Museum of the Moving Image, Eyebeam, Streaming Museum (NYC), MOCA (Taipei), NTMoA (Taiwan), QUT Museum (Australia), Asia Society (HK), Science Museum, 18 on the Bung Gallery, (Shanghai), 3 Gorges Museum (Chongqing), Nanjing University Museum of Art, Shenzhen Museum of Art, BUND 18, K11 Art Space, Science Museum, Oriental Art Center (Shanghai), Gwangju Asia Culture Centre, Art Center Nabi, Seoul Museum of Art (South Korea), Foundation (Sao Paulo, BR), SAT, MAC (Montreal), ICCNTT, Machida Museum (Tokyo)… His recent research focuses on Urban Media Art, Extended relativity in urban navigation, Brain-computer interaction applied to neuro-design, robotics, the Blockchain, Machine learning, and Generative Artificial Intelligence.As a speaker, he gave more than 400 lectures and keynotes in international institutions like UCLA, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, UCSB, UCSD, Parsons’, Art Institute SF, U. Toronto, UCL, Bartlett, Goldsmith, Fact, Sorbonne, Polytechnique, Science Po, HEC, ENS Paris, Ecole des Mines, SupElec, KTH Stockholm, Ars Electronica, Siggraph, V2 Rotterdam, Milano Triennale, Art Basel HK, ETH Zurich, Tongji, Nanjing University School of Art, ISEA Sydney, Istanbul, Paris, Hong Kong

Title of Talk : The Uncanny Convergence of Art, Science and Technology and its Enlightening Benefits