Paranoia is the state of the world. Propelled by our media, we have re-assumed our place in the jungle, afraid of the invisible predator all around us...
...TITLE: There is no business
ARTIST: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
WORK DATE: 2009
CATEGORY: Installations
MATERIALS: Installation néon, métal, timer...
...The automobile is a fascinating machine. Since its inception the automobile has driven us faster and faster into the future. Carving out the modern wo...
...In the next thirty years we will see more robotic technology integrated into our society, furthering our experience of reality through agency. Robots ...
...The Plain Text series plays on the “infinite monkey theorem”. It states that given an infinite amount of monkeys, typewriters, and time, the monkeys w...
...Surveillance technology, robotics and computers all feature in the work of Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. As you enter the exhibition s...
...Joanne takes at look at Wavefunction and Less Than Three, two interactive sculptures by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at the Bitforms Gallery in New York City....
..."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...
..."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...
...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...
..."Pulse Spiral" is a three-dimensional spiral paraboloid made up of 400 lightbulbs arranged according to Fermat's equations, --an efficient spatial dis...
...In Pulse Park, evening visitors to Madison Square Park have their systolic and diastolic activity measured by a sensor sculpture installed at the Nort...
...Installation, human hair coated with platinum film and engraved with a focused ion beam, test tube, illuminated electron-microscope duratrans print, m...
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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...
..."Less than Three" is an interactive installation of light strips that form a network between two intercoms. As a participant speaks into an intercom, ...
...The site-specific installation “Elevator’s Music”, visits the topic of synthetic creatures becoming sentient. What if centuries from now, we had the t...
...The events that have unfolded since the turn of the century, in addition to the unending technological parade of innovation and the bloating of Media ...
...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 ...
...Sustained Coincidence is an interactive installation activated by the spatial relationships of visitors within a gallery. The piece consists of a seri...
...A high resolution interactive display that simultaneously shows 864 video clips of news anchors taken from TV broadcasts in the United States and Mexi...
...Pulse Front was a matrix of light over Toronto’s Harbourfront, made with lightbeams from twenty powerful robotic searchlights, entirely controlled by ...
...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 ...
...Most days we spend a great deal of time watching screens and massaging interfaces. It is only through the looking glass of our devices that we may ass...
...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...
...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 ...
...Homographies is a large-scale interactive installation featuring a turbulent light array that responds to the movement of the public. The installation...
...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...
..."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...
...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...
...Subtitled Public consists of an empty exhibition space where visitors are detected by a computerised surveillance system. When people enter the space,...
...Glories of Accounting is an interactive installation with a surveillance system that detects the position of the public in the exhibition room. When s...
...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...
...The origin of the God-idea has always been a hot topic amongst those involved in seeking truth. Creationists will argue that the God-idea is built int...
...8520 S.W. 27th PL is an installation about the pointlessness of our never ending decision making process: choosing between left or right, brown shoes ...
...Synaptic Caguamas is a kinetic sculpture consisting of a motorized Mexican “cantina” bar table with 30 “Caguama”-sized beer bottles (1-litre each). Th...
...Drawing Machine 3.1415926 v. 2 explores the notion of generative art or art that makes art on its own. The piece consists of a three tiered mobile scu...
...Surface Tension is an interactive installation where an image of a giant human eye follows the observer with orwellian precision.
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