1960. On the initiative of the American astronomer Frank Drake, the OZMA project is born in West Virginia, which will be at the origin of the SETI program - Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. This project is the first attempt to detect signals that an extraterrestrial intelligence could emit.
[film installation]

The Call

In 1953, Arthur C. Clarke published The Nine Billion Names of God, a short story in which Tibetan monks try to find the «true» name of God by combining all the possibilities in arranging their alphabet within a maximum sequence of nine letters.
[computing, performance]

The Calculation

1998, the images taken during the American mission STS-088 show a celestial object that some will associate with the belief of an extraterestrial satellite in orbit arround the earth called black knight.
[ongoing sculpture serie]

The black knight satellite

February 19, 1945, in Prague, a flying disc was launched, rose in 3 minutes to an altitude of 15,000 m and reached a speed of 2,200 km/h. Researches and drawings by the Austrian naturalist Vikftor Schauberger on implosion engine implied rotor blades designed with antelope horn.
[sculpture]

The Schauberger rotor

2000. A triangle shaped piece of land is abandonned from its industrial activities in Sergy, France. Over twenty years, the wasteland have seen grown a new flora and welcome an artistic community that has drawn and built a place for inhabitation, research and making.
[collaborative project, architecture, curating]

bermuda

2020. The air in late is oversaturated. Heavy. Dense. Is it air at all? We seem to be living in an ever-densifying cloud made of particles, bacteria, droplets, informational data, radiation waves, A.I. gaze, mutated pollen, light pollution, sun glares. we have a cloud to navigate through.
[collaborative project, pedagogy, curating]

Truant School, visions of clouds

March 27th, 1938. Italian physicist Ettore Majorana mysteriously disappears in a sea triangle between Naples and Palermo. Theories make him; on the run in Argentina, drowned in the Tyrrhenian Sea, reclused in a monastery in Calabria, passed into a parallel universe. He smoked Macedonias.
[installation]

The macedonia's share

1901. A Shelby Electric Company carbon filament light bulb sits in a fire department storage shed on L Street in Livermore, California. Since 1976, she has been the night watchman of firehouse No. 6, moved to 4550 East Avenue. The resistance value of the filament increasing over time.
[sculpture]

The bulb from Livermore

April 2010. The Arizona Republic publishes Mexico's capital is a sinking metropolis written by Chris Hawley in which he reports that the Mexican federal government is funding the injection of 115-foot (35m) concrete columns under the Church of the Holy Trinity, in an attempt to stop the sinking of the 17th century building.
[ongoing sculpture serie]

Souvenir from texcoco

1996. A triangular base piece from the Challenger shuttle is reported on the beach in Cocoa Beach, Florida by a motel guest. It is six to eight and a half feet wide, thirteen and a half feet long, and two to two and two and a half feet thick. The client disappears without leaving his name.
[sculpture]

The challenger

December 1925. The Steamship SS Cotopaxi, carrying a cargo of coal for Havana under the command of Captain W. J. Meyer, disappears off Charleston, South Carolina with 32 crew members. No distress call is emitted from the ship which evaporates without a trace.

The states of the SS Cotopaxi

1967. An episode of the TV show, I've got a secret, is broadcast. A young man approaches a jury of four people. He sits down in front of a piano and begins to play a score. At the age of 17, Raymond Kurzweil has just invented the first calculator capable of writing piano piece.

The score

1968. Philip K. Dick wrote the sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? that describes a post-apocalyptic world. The story is set in California and depicts a colonizing society at odds with the ubiquity of androids looking more and more like humans.

The Rosen Corp.

1972. The American chess player Bobby Fischer is accused by the Russian officials of using chemical or psychic means against his opponent to destabilize him during the world championship held in Reykjavik. Forcing the competition to stop for a time, the tournament chairs were x-rayed.

The remote viewer

1997. Deep Blue, a calculator created by IBM, capable of calculating two hundred million moves per second in chess, wins a match against world champion Gary Kasparov. The analysis of the match will show that a bug in the machine is at the origin of the move which destabilized the champion.

The deep war

1973. Ivan T. Sanderson, American biologist and father of cryptozoology, publishes in the magazine Saga UFO Special report, The Twelve Devil's Graveyards Around the World in which is reproduced a planisphere superimposed with a geometric pattern.

The vile vortex

1946. Jorge Luis Borges published a one paragraph short story titled, On rigor in science. The story, a fictional quote from "Suárez Miranda, Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV, Cap. XLV, Lérida, 1658", imagines an empire where the science of cartography becomes so exact that only a map on the same scale as the empire itself will suffice.

Atlas macrotopographique

1999. The Kosmos cinema of Plovdiv closed. It was for a period the biggest cinema theater in Bulgaria. It has seen 35 years of movie screening, of which 25 years during the communist period. Drawn by the architect Lyubomir Shinkov, the building is massive and shows a certain idea of the future.

The color of the cosmos

March 5th 1982. The newspaper Liberation announces the death of the writer Georges Perec, three days earlier, Phillip K. Dick also collapsed on the floor of his house in Santa Anna, California. By chance, the announcement of the two deaths is found on the front and back of the same page of paper. In the light, the two portraits overlap.

March 5th 1982

1998. Antoine Bello published, Eloge de la pièce manquante, (ed. Gallimard). A detective novel that takes the form of an enigma (several murders have been committed in the middle of the puzzle competition), a puzzle in forty- eight pieces (or chapters) and a solution given at the end of the book.

The missing pieces [serie]

2001. Timothy Treadwell, documentary filmmaker and founder of Grizzly People, who lived 13 summer seasons among Grizzly families in the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, is discovered dead with his girfriend near their camp.

The script

Summer 2013. A kestrel was spotted by the inhabitants of Altinayva, a Turkish village in the province of Elazig, while it was hovering. Having caught it, the villagers discovered on its leg a ring on which they could read the following:

24311 TEL AVIVUNIA ISRAEL.

1958. The economist Leonard E.Read wrote I, pencil. This first person text, describes the genealogy of the pencil Mongol 482 made by The Eberhard Faber Pencil Cie. The pencil describes the complexe implications of his making and his composition by theorizing an ultra liberal capitalism.

I pencil

1974. Harold Vogel first trace the new star on the wall using a template. Each star measures 2¼ inches tall by 2¼ inches wide and half an inch deep; all the stars are six inches apart from each other, as are all the rows. He uses both a pneumatic air hammer and a chisel to carve out the traced pattern.

The star engraver

February 2005, The ghost town Amboy, located on the 66 in california is bought by Albert Okura, owner of the Juan Pollo restaurant chain, who offered $425,000 in cash and promised to preserve the town and reopen Roy's gaz station. The motel has been used as a stage for art exhibits.

The devil's peak