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Participants in The Violence of Information symposium:

Museum Hermeticum
Dominique De Bardonneche Berglund

“Museum Hermeticum is not an esoteric virtual place... but claims, all the same, the power of a sort of new alchimy. The adjective [hermeticum] comes from Hermes, the Old Greek god of the communication. This personnal museum gathers the result of 15 years search in the picture field and its relation with technologies.
Museum Hermeticum is an imaginary museum.
It examines the meaning of a piece of art out of its context, cut and distort by a modern liking for the blow up and love for the details. The work on computer makes only a synthesis of our modern art approach...
Museum Hermeticum is personal museum.
It is the fact of everybody to have an imaginary museum in spite of cultural level. Each of us sets up a mind museum by [zapping] as well in traditional culture as in contemporary medias: publicity, posters, Cdrom pockets, books covers, TV, etc. A museum where the names of authors are forgotten, as well as the whole work and its title.
The computer allowed me to materialize my museum. I made it exactly like a child cut up from a magazine his favorite pictures and stick them, in a selected order, on a new magic page.
Museum Hermeticum is a [cabinet de curiositйs] or [curios room], (the ancestor of the museum) in the same way of those, in the old days, which could found in castles, generaly associated with a library. The purpose of a [cabinet de curiosites] is to establish links between objects in spite of a scientific logic or historic knowledge.
I tried here to establish, through the computer possibilities and in accordance with a theory of correspondences- (Baudelaire-Etienne Souriau) the correspondences, through the computer work, between the different fields of art: calligrams, computer graphics, music, etc. I make a picture in the same way others make a perfume.
Finally, Museum Hermeticum is a place for the meeting of elective affinities. A place where I like to invite friends, emphasize their creativity and pay tribute to the others for their tireless work.”

Studies: History and Art History- Medieval Archeologie- (Aix en Provence University France) Transdisciplinary studies (Cetec- Paris Dauphine University- Paris France) Autodidact painter. Work on computer since 84. Many exhibitions, conferences, round tables around the world (Europ, States, Canada) Computer exhibition organizer in Geneva, 86-89 (Switzerland) Made websites since 94 for culture purpose. Create a museal concept for the web for the Antik roman Museum of Lausanne (Switzerland).