Information
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer >
»Displaced Emperors«, 1997 - 1997
Co-Workers & Funding:
Co-Worker: Frieder Nake
Technology
Display
Year of Creation: 1997Technique: One 7 kW Xenon projector with robotic scrollers and Duraclear transparencies, wireless 3D tracking system, sound system.
Dimensions: 800 m2 (projection surface)
Keywords: database, interactive, lights, outdoor, projection, robotic, site-specific, sound, tracker, performer.
Descriptions & Essays
Relational Architecture 2
"Displaced Emperors" was the second relational architecture project of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. This installation used an "architact" interface to transform the Habsburg Castle in Linz, Austria. Wireless 3D sensors calculated where participants pointed to on the facade and a large animated projection of a hand was shown at that location. As people on the street "caressed" the building, they could reveal the interiors, which corresponded to Chapultepec Castle, the Habsburg residence in Mexico City. In addition, for ten schillings, people could press the "Moctezuma button" and trigger a temporary post-colonial override consisting of a huge image of the Aztec head-dress that is kept at the ethnological museum in Vienna.
(Photos by Antimodular Research)
Literature
Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael and Heimo Ranzenbacher. »Metaphors of Participation / Metaphern der Partizipation - Interview
with / mit Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.« In Ars Electronica 2001: TAKEOVER - Who´s Doing the Art of Tomorrow? / Wer macht die Kunst von morgen?, edited by Gerfried Stocker and Christine Schöpf. Wien, New York: Springer Verlag, 2001.
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