»The Year's Midnight« 
Light Box
Light Box
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
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- Installation
- augmented reality
- interactive installation
- mixed reality
- performative installation
- sound installation
- virtual reality
- 360° virtual walktrough
- Nano Art
- Net Art
- Performance
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- Happening
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- algorithm
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- Theory
- complexity
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- BODY AND HUMAN
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- breathing
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- disease
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- MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
- access
- advertising
- Big Data
- broadcast
- commerce
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- electronic media
- error message
- fiction
- film
- global village
- hypertext
- information
- intermediality
- internet
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- media archaeology
- open source
- print media
- radio
- search engine
- social media
- storytelling
- telecommunication
- telephone
- television
- video surveillance
- visualisation
- writing
- NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
- agriculture
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- anthropocentrism
- atmosphere
- catastrophe
- DNA
- earth
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- energy
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- evolution
- four elements
- geology
- global warming
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- magnetism
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- pollution
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- authority
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- surveillance
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- RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY
- afterlife
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- paradise
- religion
- buddhism
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- islam
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- Saint
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- SOCIETY AND CULTURE
- activism
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- counterculture
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- entertainment
- parody
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- popular culture
- spectacle
- migration
- minority
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- otherness
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- 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
- ART AND SCIENCE
- 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
- Electronic displays
- 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
- Display
Information
Cite
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Archive of Digital Art (ADA). “Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - »The Year's Midnight«”. https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/the-years-midnight.html (retrieved 2013-03-07).
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Technology
Descriptions & Essays
The Year's Midnight, 2011
Computer, software, camera, high-resolution display, Seeing Machines face recognition
105.5 x 80 x 12 cm
Ed. 3/6, 1 AP
(RLH 89.3)
White or black smoke bellows from the eyes of the viewer. Live and recorded eyeballs extracted from the video accumulate on the bottom of the display, similar to traditional representations of St. Lucy. The project's name is the beginning of John Donne's "A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day", a mournful poem which inspires this work.
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