
TITLE: There is no business
ARTIST: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
WORK DATE: 2009
CATEGORY: Installations
MATERIALS: Installation néon, métal, timer...
..."Less than Three" is an interactive installation of light strips that form a network between two intercoms. As a participant speaks into an intercom, ...
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The result is surprising because the sound comes directly from the microphone, which "speaks back", and because it is a memory of what alrea...
...Installation, human hair coated with platinum film and engraved with a focused ion beam, test tube, illuminated electron-microscope duratrans print, m...
...In Pulse Park, evening visitors to Madison Square Park have their systolic and diastolic activity measured by a sensor sculpture installed at the Nort...
..."Pulse Spiral" is a three-dimensional spiral paraboloid made up of 400 lightbulbs arranged according to Fermat's equations, --an efficient spatial dis...
...Pulse Tank is an Interactive installation where the heart rates of members of the public are detected by sensors and converted into water waves in a r...
..."Voz Alta" (Loud Voice) is a memorial commissioned for the 40th anniversary of the student massacre in Tlatelolco, which took place on October 2nd 196...
..."Alpha Blend" is the seventh piece in the Shadow Box series of interactive displays with a built-in computerized tracking system. This piece shows the...
...Blow-up is a high resolution interactive display that is designed to fragment a surveillance camera view into 2400 virtual cameras that zoom into the ...
...Pulse Front was a matrix of light over Toronto’s Harbourfront, made with lightbeams from twenty powerful robotic searchlights, entirely controlled by ...
...A high resolution interactive display that simultaneously shows 864 video clips of news anchors taken from TV broadcasts in the United States and Mexi...
...Sustained Coincidence is an interactive installation activated by the spatial relationships of visitors within a gallery. The piece consists of a seri...
...Wavefunction is a kinetic sculpture comprised of fifty to one hundred Charles and Ray Eames moulded chairs (designed in 1948) and placed in a regular ...
..."Close-up" is the third piece of the ShadowBox series of interactive displays with a built-in computerized tracking system. This piece shows the viewe...
...Eye Contact is the first piece of the Shadow Box series of interactive displays with a built-in computerized tracking system. This piece shows eight h...
...Homographies is a large-scale interactive installation featuring a turbulent light array that responds to the movement of the public. The installation...
...Pulse Room is an interactive installation featuring one to three hundred clear incandescent light bulbs, 300 W each and hung from a cable at a height ...
...Third Person is the second piece of the ShadowBox series of interactive displays with a built-in computerized tracking system. This piece shows the vi...
...Entanglement is an interactive installation that consists of two identical neon signs each measuring 182 x 38 cm. The signs simply say the word "Entan...
...Glories of Accounting is an interactive installation with a surveillance system that detects the position of the public in the exhibition room. When s...
...Subtitled Public consists of an empty exhibition space where visitors are detected by a computerised surveillance system. When people enter the space,...
...Under Scan is an interactive video art installation for public space. In the work, passers-by are detected by a computerized tracking system, which ac...
...SITESTEPPER is an Internet program that shows a 3D view of an apparently "neutral" living room. This space can be transformed automatically by scannin...
...STANDARDS AND DOUBLE STANDARDS is an interactive installation that consists of fifty fastened belts that are suspended at waist height from servo moto...
...Synaptic Caguamas is a kinetic sculpture consisting of a motorized Mexican “cantina” bar table with 30 “Caguama”-sized beer bottles (1-litre each). Th...
..."Frequency and Volume" consists of between 100 and 800 square metres of projected shadows which allow participants to scan the radio spectrum of the c...
..."Amodal Suspension" is a large-scale interactive installation developed for the opening of the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) in Japan. Fr...
...1000 PLATITUDES consists of large photomontages and one video documentary, which is shown on a plasma screen. Words commonly used to describe the gene...
..."Two Origins" transforms the emblematic Place du Capitole by projecting the heretic "Book of Two Origins", a 13th century manuscript compiling the cor...
..."Body Movies" transforms public space with 400 to 1,800 square metres of interactive projections. Thousands of photo portraits taken on the streets of...
..."33 Questions per Minute" consists of a computer program which uses gramatical rules to combine words from a dictionary and generate 55 billion unique...
..."Vectorial Elevation" was an interactive art project which allowed thousands of people from 89 countries to control 18 robotic searchlights with 126,0...
...Relational Architecture 3
RE:Positioning Fear was the third relational architecture project. A large scale installation on the Landeszeughaus milita...
..."The Able Skin" is a media structure designed by architect Emilio López-Galiacho to hide any emblematic building that is not allowed to have a natural...
...Relational Architecture 2
"Displaced Emperors" was the second relational architecture project of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. This installation used an "ar...
..."The Trace" is a telepresence installation that invites two participants in remote sites to share the same telematic space. The piece consists of vect...
...Surface Tension is an interactive installation where an image of a giant human eye follows the observer with orwellian precision.
This work was ins...
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