I’m a Belgian essayist, programmer and transmedia artist building complex systems, moving images and virtual experiences. Raised on video games, a nascent internet and looping MTV music videos, I grew up seeing digital technology as a promise of emancipation and boundless possibility — a belief that made me a nomad across disciplines, technologies and geographies.
What interests me is the act of erring, of digressing, of remaining irreducibly human, not despite machines, but through them. My books are the backbone of this inquiry: living transmedia works, continuously updated, weaving together texts, videos and virtual experiences. In Humans and Their Errors, I examine bugs and their metaphysical implications; in Digressive Society, I address the plurality of value systems across culture, economics, and politics; in Food Court, I find the same tensions playing out at the smallest scale of everyday life — a philosophical diary about eating out in the age of social media and online takeaway platforms.
My videos and installations, shown at the Wrong Biennale, the MAC Paris Salon and the Toronto Urban Film Festival, stage the tension between fantasy and a messier off-screen reality: a superflat aesthetic disrupted by digital glitches. My point-and-click games and virtual worlds function as heterotopias, contemplative spaces in Foucault’s sense, that mirror and invert reality, reflecting on the gamification of life and the impossibility of winning it all.
Where the moving images and games are intimate accounts of today, the essays and prototypes reach toward collective futures. My essays, published in AI & Society, Philosophy Now, and The Disconnect, ask what self-determination can still mean in a world reshaped by human-machine systems. My prototypes investigate how generative technology can open new creative possibilities and governance models, refusing to let the question close.
For any inquiries, please email contact@bruchansky.xyz.
I currently live in Paris.
// Awards, Exhibitions and Screenings
* Agent Policy Pipeline winner of the KXSB Agents & Robotics hackathon in the ethics, agency & societal impact category – Berlin – April 2026
* Mondovision shortlisted at the Artefact AI Film Festival competition – Paris – December 2025
* The Office runner-up winner of the “Agentic Workflows for the Future of Work” track at Raise Your Hack hackathon – Paris – July 2025
* AI Phantasmagoria screened at the 7th edition of the International Bad Video Art Festival – Italy – December 2024
* Plastic and Virtual Packaging part of The Anthropocene Project – Germany – April 2024
* Constructions part of VideoSoundArchive (S9 edition) – February 2024
* AI Phantasmagoria part of the Becoming Machine exhibition (CapitArt, Artsect Gallery, The Wrong Biennale) – London- November 2023
* Chaos group exhibition – Espace d’art Chaillioux – Paris- November 2022
* Constructions screened at Las Cigarreras (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante), curated by ACOA (Contemporary artists from Alicante) – Spain – May 2022
* What you Like, Where you Like, When you Like screened at Surveillance Society. A State of Control exhibition – Rome – May 2022
* Circulation, Pas-Perdus and Collective Obsessive-Compulsive Order installations exhibited at the Fall 2021 macparis salon (group of 22 contemporary artists) – Paris – November 2021
* Moving images screened at the Open Show – Toronto – April 2016
* Welcome to Hong Kong screened at the Under the Subway Videoart Night, Museu Valencià de la Il·lustració i la Modernitat – Valencia – June 2015
* Welcome to Hong Kong screened at the 3rd edition of Under the Subway Video Art Night – New York – June 2013
* Welcome to Hong Kong screened at the 11th edition of the Images Contre Nature festival – Marseilles – June 2011
* Welcome to Hong Kong screened in the Toronto subway, as part of the Toronto Urban Film Festival – September 2010
* A week off – the ordeal of scentless screened at the Temporary Arts Project space – Southend-on-Sea, UK – July 2010
* At the bus stop screened at the Underground City exhibition – London – April 2009
* On the couch screened at the Directors Lounge – Berlin – February 2009
* On the couch screened at the Artropolis festival – Chicago – April 2008
* Digital Media Valencia festival – Valencia – April 2008
* Born screened at the E32 – New York – April 2008
* On the couch screened at the Another Roadside Attraction – London – April 2008
* Artwork featured on the www.rhizome.org Artbase – New Museum of Contemporary Art – New York – January 2007
* Moving images screened at the Media Art Friesland festival – Friesland, the Netherlands – September 2005
* Moving images screened at the European Media Art festival – Osnabrück, Germany – April 2005
* Artwork referenced by www.shift.jp.org – Japan – March 2005;
// Papers and Talks
* Value Pluralism & Plurality of Choice featured in Issue 163 of Philosophy Now magazine – August 2024
* Speaker at the Becoming Machine “AI art talk” (The Wrong Biennale) – London, UK – November 2023
* Speaker at VRDays Europe (Think Bigger in VR) – Rotterdam, Netherlands – November 2022
* Panelist at XR/Metaverse/Web3 Conference – Metaverse, Germany- November 2022
* Speaker at Pirate Summit (ethics in IT talk) – Cologne, Germany – September 2022
* Speaker at The DevOps Conference 2022 (ethics in IT talk)- Finland (remote) – March 2022
* Curator of Post-COVID Urban Mobilities online exhibition – Paris, France – November 2020
* Editor of Leadership Beyond Hierarchy – Paris, France – October 2020
* Social: evolversi o morire published in Istmo – Italy – July 2020
* The Future of Digital Communities published in the Disconnect – Apr 2019
* Machine Learning: Dealing with Diversity of Meaning published in the AI & Society academic journal – October 2017
* “The A.I. and Human Brain: Symbiosis or Zero-Sum Game?” workshop with the support of Idea Couture – Toronto, Canada – May 2017
* Moderator of the City of Dust and Human Zoo discussions (art exhibition openings) – London, UK – July 2016
* “Echo Chambers in Media and Social Networks” workshop with the support of the Westminster Reference Library – London, UK – February 2016
* “La société digressive – la mise en perspective culturelle” talk given at the “Transgression : de l’émancipation à la progression” symposium – Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers, France – September 2013
* “L’expertise soumise à appréciation” talk given at the Philopolis 2013 conference – Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada – February 2013
* The Semiotics of Video Games presented at the 3rd video games cultures conference – Mansfield College, University of Oxford, UK – July 2011
* Talk about the appropriation of space given at theIXth IIAA conference on Environmental Aesthetics, University of Helsinki – Lahti, Finland – June 2011
* Conversation with Kati Blom on the appropriation of space, from the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture – January 2011
* “Welcome to Hong Kong” presented at the European Conference on Complex Systems – Lisbon, Portugal – September 2010
* Philosophical concept of mobile capital published in the issue 232 of the “Design, Architecture, Ideas” Ottagono magazine – July 2010
* Heterotopia of Walt Disney World published in the February 2010 edition of Philosophy Now magazine – February 2010
* Design for Dreaming workshops and cultural exchange between students in London and Hong Kong – August 2009
* Dreams of Progress art exhibition – London, UK – July 2009