City of Mexico, 1967.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is pursuing a B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from the Concordia University of Mont-real, Canada.
Media artist who works at the intersection of architecture and performance art. Create platforms for public participation using technologies such as robotic lights, digital fonts, computer surveillance, mitjans walls and telematic tools. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival and animation, the six works of light and shadows are “antimonuments for the alien agency”.
He will be the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale with an exhibition at the Palazzo Van Axel in 2007. He has also exhibited at Biennals in Cuenca, L’Havana, Istanbul, Kochi, Liverpool, Melbourne NGV, Moscow, Nova Orleans, Nova York ICP. , Seoul, Seville, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Wuzhen. His public art has been commissioned for the millennium celebrations in Mexico City in 1999, the expansion of the European Union in Dublin in 2004, the Student Massacre Memorial in Tlatelolco in 2008, the Vancouver Olympic Games in 2010, the exhibition prior to the inauguration of the Guggenheim. d’Abu Dhabi 2015., and the activation of the Teatre Romà Raurica in Basel 2018. The collections that contain the latest work include MoMA and Guggenheim in New York, TATE in London, MAC and MBAM in Mont-real, Jumex and MUAC in Ciutat de Mèxic, DAROS in Zuric, MONA in Hobart. , 21C Museum in Kanazawa, Borusan Contemporary in Istanbul, CIFO in Miami, MAG in Manchester, SFMOMA in San Francisco, ZKM in Karlsruhe, SAM in Singapore and many others.
He has won two BAFTA awards from the British Academy for interactive art in London, a Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, the Rave “Artist of the year” from Wired Magazine, a Rockefeller scholarship, the Trophée des Lumières de Lió, an international Bauhaus Award to Dessau, the title of Compagnon des Arts et des Lettres du Québec to Quebec and the Governor General’s Award to Canada. He has given lectures at Goldsmiths College, the Bartlett School, Princeton, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Cooper Union, USC, MIT MediaLab, Guggenheim Museum, LA MOCA, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Cornell, UPenn, SCAD, Danish Architecture Center, CCA in Montreal, ICA in London and the Art Institute of Chicago.
In 2016, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Daniel Canogar, jointly and honorably, will visit the ARCO-Beep Electronic Art Award
Treball a la col·lecció: Muntatge Redundant
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Redundant Assembly, 2015
At the “Redundant Assembly” an arrangement of various cameras composes a live portrait of the visitor from six perspectives simultaneously, aligned during face detection. The resulting image is strange, detached from the laws of symmetry and the depth perception of binocular vision. If there are several visitors to the work, a composite portrait of the different facial features is developed in real time, creating a mixed “selfie.” Facial reconnaissance is a technique that is used by the police, investigators and corporate entities to search for and detect suspicious people or targets. Here the mateixa technology is used to confondre portraits and emphasize the artificiality and the arbitration of identification.
http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/videos/artwork/redundant_assembly_basel_2016_rlh_001.mp4
Confidence level, 2015
To commemorate the six months since the forced disappearance of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa, Lozano-Hemmer will reprogram a facial reconnaissance system — normally used to locate suspects — to search for missing people. A copy captured by a person’s camera, the system closes biometric coincidences with the students’ needs and selects the one that shares the most characteristics to then determine a percentage of certainty in the most recent troballa. with our ethical and personal relationship with the victims of state violence.
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