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Born in Mascara, Algeria in March 1957, he moved to France in 1958. In the 1980s Benayoun directed video installations and short films about contemporary artists, including Daniel Buren , Jean Tinguely , Sol LeWitt and Martial Raysse. In 1987 he co-founded Z-A , a computer graphics and Virtual Reality lab. Between 1990 and 1993, Benayoun collaborated with Belgian graphic novelist François Schuiten on '' Quarxs '', a computer graphics world that explores variant worlds with alternate physical laws.Stephen Wilson, ''Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology'', MIT Press, 2002, p705. ISBN 0262731584 In 1993, he received the ''Villa Medicis Hors Les Murs'' for his ''Art After Museum'' project, a virtual reality contemporary art collection. In 1994 Benayoun was involved with more virtual-reality and interactive-art installations. One of these was described by Jean-Paul Fargier in '' Le Monde '' (1994) as "the first Metaphysical Video Game". One important work from this period includes '' The Tunnel Under The Atlantic '', finished in 1995. This was a tele-virtual project linking the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal.Lars Qvortrupp, ''Virtual Space: Spatiality in Virtual Inhabited 3d Worlds'', Springer, 2002, p222. ISBN 1852335165 The ''Navigation Room'' (1997) and ''The Membrane'' (2001) were created for the Cité des Sciences de la Villette. The ''Navigation Room'' presented, through an innovative interface, highly personalized visits and content, ending with a web page dedicated to each visitor. ''The Membrane'' (2001) — the core of the exhibition ''Man Transformed'' — was a large surface breathing and ''feeling'' the presence of the visitors. ''The Panoramic Tables'' for the ''Planet of Visions'' pavilion for Hanover EXPO2000, directed by François Schuiten , was an innovative application of Augmented Reality . Benayoun conceived and directed the exhibition ''Cosmopolis, Overwriting the City'' (2005), a giant art and science immersive installation presented for French Year in China . AWARDS In 1998, Benayoun won the Golden Nica At Ars Electronica , in the Interactive Art category, for ''World Skin, a Photo Safari in the Land of War''. In 2006, Maurice Benayoun together with the architect Christophe Girault won the competition for the new permanent exhibition in the Arc De Triomphe , Paris, opening 2007. SELECTED WORKS
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