SURFACE TENSION BY RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER - ADA

Keywords

aesthetics
- acoustic
- affective
- anamorphic
- animated
- anthropomorph
- assembled
- automated
- autopoietic
- collaborative
- contextual
- cybernetic
- disgusting
- documenting
- duplicated
- dynamic system
- ephemeral
- experimental
- found object
- generative
- gustatory
- hypermediacy
- illusionary
- immaterial
- immersive
- installation-based
- interactive
- intermedial
- intervention
- mobile
- modular
- multi-user
- multiple
- narrative
- navigable
- networked
- olfactory
- panoramatic
- performative
- polysensory
- processual
- projected
- real-time
- remediated
- remixed
- sculptural
- site-specific
- sonification
- sublime
- tactile
- telematic
- three-dimensional
- time-based
- uncanny
- virtual
- visual
genre
- Bio Art
  - Genetic Art
  - Transgenic Art
- Database Art
- Digital Activism
- Digital Animation
- Digital Community (Social Network)
- Digital Graphics
- Game Art
- Glitch Art
- Hybrid Art
- Installation
  - augmented reality
  - interactive installation
  - mixed reality
  - performative installation
  - sound installation
  - virtual reality
    - 360° virtual walktrough
- Nano Art
- Net Art
- Performance
  - Computer performance
  - Happening
  - multimedia performance
  - sound performance
  - video performance
- robotics
- Telematic Art
subject
- ART AND SCIENCE
  - algorithm
  - anthropology
  - archaeology
  - artificial intelligence
  - astronomy
  - biology
  - botany
  - cartography
  - code
  - combinatorics
  - cyberspace
  - database
  - documentation
  - emergence
  - evidence
  - experiment
  - geography
  - geometry
  - history of science
  - humanities
  - library
  - light
  - machine
  - mathematic
  - medicine
  - microscopy
  - nanotechnology
  - neuroscience
  - philosophy
  - physics
  - psychology
  - Representation of knowledge
  - research
  - science
  - scientific image
  - space
  - statistics
  - stereoscope
- ARTS AND VISUAL CULTURE
  - allegory
  - animation
  - architecture
  - art history
  - art market
  - artistic invention
  - beauty
  - cinema
  - Concept Art
  - conservation
  - dance
  - expanded cinema
  - fashion
  - gaze
  - grid
  - illusion
  - image
  - literature
  - mask
  - materiality
  - mirror
  - model
  - museum
  - music
  - nude
  - panopticon
  - panorama
  - personification
  - perspective
  - poetry
  - projection
  - representation
  - shadow
  - sketch
  - spectator
  - symbolism
  - theatre
  - Theory
    - complexity
    - media theory
    - modernism
    - postmodernism
    - poststructuralism
    - semiotics
    - simulacrum
  - virtuality
  - visual culture
- BODY AND HUMAN
  - agency
  - anatomy
  - body
  - breathing
  - cybersex
  - cyborg
  - death
  - disease
  - dream
  - embodiment
  - empathy
  - expression
  - eye
  - facial expression
  - fantasy
  - feeling
    - affect
    - emotion
  - gender
  - genetics
  - gesture
  - hand
  - human
  - identity
  - intimacy
  - movement
  - pain
  - perception
  - performativity
  - physiognomy
  - posthuman
  - self awareness
  - senses
  - sexuality
  - skin
  - speech
  - surgery
- HISTORY AND MEMORY
  - ancestor
  - antiquity
  - archive
  - artifacts
  - collective memory
  - colonialism
  - cultural heritage
  - historical site
  - historism
  - history
  - meme
  - memorial
  - modern era
  - nostalgia
  - postcolonialism
  - preservation
  - romanticism
  - teleology
  - tradition
- MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
  - access
  - advertising
  - Big Data
  - broadcast
  - commerce
  - communication
  - electronic media
  - error message
  - fiction
  - film
  - global village
  - hypertext
  - information
  - intermediality
  - internet
  - language
  - media archaeology
  - open source
  - print media
  - radio
  - search engine
  - social media
  - storytelling
  - telecommunication
  - telephone
  - television
  - video surveillance
  - visualisation
  - writing
- NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
  - agriculture
  - animal
  - anthropocentrism
  - atmosphere
  - catastrophe
  - DNA
  - earth
  - ecosystem/ecology
  - energy
  - environment
  - evolution
  - four elements
  - geology
  - global warming
  - globe
  - landscape
  - magnetism
  - nature
  - ocean
  - outer space
  - physical law
  - plant
  - pollution
  - sustainability
  - vegetation
  - water
  - weather
- POWER AND POLITICS
  - authority
  - banking
  - censorship
  - conspiracy
  - democracy
  - discrimination
  - economy
  - equality
  - geopolitics
  - governance
  - heroism
  - human rights
  - imperialism
  - institution
  - law
  - manipulation
  - market
  - military
  - nationalism
  - patriarchy
  - politics
  - sovereignty
  - surveillance
  - terrorism
  - violence
  - warfare
- RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY
  - afterlife
  - alchemy
  - bible
  - church
  - creation
  - crucifixion
  - esoterism
  - exodus
  - heretic
  - legend
  - mysticism
  - myth
  - mythological creature
  - mythology
  - paradise
  - religion
    - buddhism
    - christianity
    - islam
    - judaism
  - ritual
  - sacrifice
  - Saint
  - sin
  - spirituality
  - vision
  - worship
- SOCIETY AND CULTURE
  - activism
  - capitalism
    - surveillance-capitalism
  - civilisation
  - community
  - consumption
  - counterculture
  - digital identity
  - diversity
  - ethnicity
  - feminism
  - food
  - globalization
  - individuality
  - information society
  - interculturalism
  - mass
  - mass culture
    - entertainment
    - parody
    - phantasmagoria
    - popular culture
    - spectacle
  - migration
  - minority
  - morality
  - native
  - otherness
  - participation
  - poverty
  - privacy
  - racism
  - territory
  - unemployment
  - urban space
  - voyeurism
  - wealth
  - working class
- TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
  - artificial intelligence
  - artificial life
  - biocomputer
  - blockchain
  - cybernetics
  - development
  - digitization
  - electricity
  - emulation
  - engineering
  - history of technology
  - innovation
  - intelligent environment
  - invention
  - mechanics
  - military technology
  - mobility
  - nonhuman communication
  - optics
  - product design
  - production
  - robot
  - simulation
  - supercomputing
  - technophobia
  - telematics
  - telepresence
Technology
- Display
  - Electronic displays
    - BOOM (Binocular Omni-Orientation Monitor)
    - CAVE (Computered Augmented Virtual Environment)
    - computer monitor
    - dome
    - Electromechanical Display Device
    - Electronic Paper
    - flashlight
    - Head-up Display
    - Headphones
    - HMD (Head-mounted Display)
    - holography
    - laser
    - light-emitting diode
    - lightbox
    - plasma
    - printer
    - projection screen
    - projector
    - robotic
    - speakers
    - VFD (Vacuum Florescent Display)
    - VRD (Virtual Retinal Display)
  - Non-electronic displays
    - body
    - Book
    - easel painting
    - globe
    - house wall
    - inflatable structure
    - mirror
    - paper
    - sculpture
    - shutter glasses
    - sofa
    - Somatosensory System / Tactile Feedback Technology
    - table
- Hardware
  - camera
  - computer mouse
  - data glove
  - Joystick
  - MAC
  - Mobile Device
  - multi touchscreen
  - plotter
  - scanner
  - touchscreen
  - Video
  - Virtual Workbench
  - Virtuscope
  - webcam
- Interface
  - Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC)
  - biometrics
  - Body sensor
    - Body Tracking
    - brainwave sensor/brain-computer-interface
    - breathing sensor
    - Breathing-Balance-Interface-Vest
    - Endoscope
    - eye scanner
    - facial recognition system
    - Motion Capture
    - positiontracker
    - retina scanner
    - Speech Recognition
    - step sensor
  - camera recording
  - electromagnetism
  - interactive media
    - Auditory User Interface (AUI)
    - Augmented Reality Interfaces
    - breath based communication
    - Internet of Things (IoT)
    - Ludic Interface
    - MR-based (Mixed Reality) Interaction
    - Multi-Modal Interaction
    - tactile user interfaces
    - Tangible Acoustic Interface
    - Tangible User Interface (TUI)
    - Voice User interface
  - Non-electronic interface
    - bike
    - doll
    - furniture
    - plant
  - Soundgenerating device
    - Audiotape
    - keyboard
    - microphone
    - musical instrument
    - RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
    - Speech Recognition
    - syntheziser
    - telephone
    - Theremin
    - turntable
    - voice analysis
    - Voice User Interface (VUI)
  - virtual balance
- Software
  - C++
  - CGI/Perl
  - CSS
  - Global Positioning System (GPS)
  - ISDN
  - Java
  - Linux
  - Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
  - periscope
  - PHP
  - RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
  - robotic interfaces
  - SGI Onyx2
  - softimage
  - software interface
  - Video
  - VRML
  - Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
  - XML

Information

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer >

»Surface Tension«, 1992 - 1993

Co-Workers & Funding:

Conroy Badger — programming
Susie Ramsay, Will Bauer and Tara DeSimone — production
Bruce Ramsay — model

http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/english/projects/surfacetension.htm

Cite

Archive of Digital Art (ADA). “Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - »Surface Tension«”. https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/surface-tension.html (retrieved 2010-08-11). @online{ADAartistprofile, author = {Archive of Digital Art (ADA)}, title = {Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - »Surface Tension«}, url = {https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/surface-tension.html}, urldate = {retrieved 2010-08-11}

Technology

Display

Year of Creation: 1992-1993
Technique: Plasma or rear-projection screen, computerised surveillance system, custom-made software.
Dimensions: Variable dimensions. edition of 6
Keywords: database, indoor, interactive, performance, projection, tracker.
Collections: Colección/Fundación Jumex (Mexico City), Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (Miami), Jonathon Carroll Collection (NYC), Speyer Family Collection (NYC) and Daros Latinamerica (Zürich).

Descriptions & Essays

Surface Tension is an interactive installation where an image of a giant human eye follows the observer with orwellian precision. This work was inspired by a reading of Georges Bataille’s text The Solar Anus during the first Gulf War –the first wide-spread deployment of camera-guided “intelligent bombs”. Present-day computerised surveillance techniques employed by the Department of Homeland Security in the United States through the Patriot Act, provide a new and distressing backdrop for this piece. The installation was originally developed in 1992 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid as a stage module for a theatre work by the Transition State Theory troupe. Since then, Surface Tension has been presented as an art installation, typically on a plasma screen. (Photos by Antimodular Research)

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