Now Boltanski is making an intimate record of his own life through "Storage Memory," a series of one-minute videos that he is posting on the Internet at the rate of 10 per month. According to a statement on his Web site, the films "will constitute over time a kind of oblique self-portrait." Users can pay €120 ($160) for a year-long subscription to the project — meaning that each video costs one euro. At the end of the year, "a certificate of electronic ownership of all the films" will be issued to each subscriber. It's a direct way of bringing his work to a wide public, and Boltanski is committing himself to continuing the self-portrait video project for the rest of his life.

It's not the first time that Boltanski has brought an art project to the Internet. At the Venice Biennale last year, his installation "Chance" included photographs of portions of faces of many different individuals that visitors could freeze with the push of a button. If the three sections from a single face happened to line up, the visitor got to take the work home. The same game could be played on the Internet, and winners would receive "a surprise" from the artist in the mail. Although it was expected to be up only for the duration of the Biennale, the "Chance" site is currently still functioning.