Рафаэль Лозано-Хеммер
拉斐尔·洛萨诺 – 亨默
ラファエル·ロサノ=ヘメル
라파엘 로자노
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Pulse Room

source: lozano-hemme

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 of three metres. The bulbs are uniformly distributed over the exhibition room, filling it completely. An interface placed on a side of the room has a sensor that detects the heart rate of participants. When someone holds the interface, a computer detects his or her pulse and immediately sets off the closest bulb to flash at the exact rhythm of his or her heart. The moment the interface is released all the lights turn off briefly and the flashing sequence advances by one position down the queue, to the next bulb in the grid. Each time someone touches the interface a heart pattern is recorded and this is sent to the first bulb in the grid, pushing ahead all the existing recordings. At any given time the installation shows the recordings from the most recent participants.

This work was inspired by Macario, directed by Roberto Gavaldón in 1960, a film where the protagonist suffers a hunger-induced hallucination in which every person is represented by a lit candle in a cave. Other references for this work include minimalist, machinic and serialist patterns in music (for example in scores by composers Conlon Nancarrow, Steve Reich and Glenn Branca) and the postulation of the theory of Cybernetics at the National Institute of Cardiology in Mexico City to explain the process of self-regulation of the heart.
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source: macmorg

Montrealers will finally have an opportunity to see Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Pulse Room here in their city, which is also the Mexican-born artist’s adopted home. This masterpiece of relational, interactive art, created in 2006, was presented at the Venice Biennale in 2007. In this vast installation, the heart rate of visitors, captured and transmitted by a computerized system, is turned into pulses of light in some 300 light bulbs suspended from the ceiling. Minimalist music and cybernetics research also played a part in the artist’s development of this spectacular, sparkling work in which the beat of each visitor’s heart is added to that of thousands of others to produce a memorable experience.
The viewer experience is central to the approach of this electronic and multidisciplinary artist, who develops interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture, sculpture and performance. Trained in physical chemistry, a master of shadow and light, Lozano-Hemmer creates platforms based on public participation, making use of technologies such as robotics, electronic surveillance and telematic networks.
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source: barogaleria

Nasceu no Distrito Federal, México, 1967. Vive e trabalha em Montreal, Canadá.

Através da exploração de diversos dispositivos tecnológicos – sensores, gravadores de voz, aplicativos, robôs, celulares, redes telemáticas – o artista eletrônico realiza instalações audiovisuais que se articulam entre arquitetura e performance. Inspirado pelos conceitos de fantasmagoria e animatronics, seu maior interesse é a criação de plataformas para a participação das pessoas, que se realizam em contextos variados como espaços urbanos, internet, museus e galerias.
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source: lozano-hemmer
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was born in Mexico City in 1967. In 1989 he received a B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. He is a faculty associate of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

Electronic artist, develops interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture and performance art. His main interest is in creating platforms for public participation, by perverting technologies such as robotics, computerized surveillance or telematic networks. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival and animatronics, his light and shadow works are “antimonuments for alien agency”.

His large-scale interactive installations have been commissioned for events such as the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the Cultural Capital of Europe in Rotterdam (2001), the UN World Summit of Cities in Lyon (2003), the opening of the YCAM Center in Japan (2003), the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004), the memorial for the Tlatelolco Student Massacre in Mexico City (2008), the 50th Anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2009) and the Winter Olympics in Vancouver (2010).

Recently the subject of solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Fundación Telefónica in Buenos Aires and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, he was the first artist to officially represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale with a solo exhibition at Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel in 2007. He has also shown at Art Biennials and Triennials in Havana, Istanbul, Liverpool, Montréal, Moscow, New Orleans, Panama, Seville, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney. Collections holding his work include the MoMA in New York, Tate in London, AGO in Toronto, CIFO in Miami, Jumex in Mexico City, DAROS in Zurich, Borusan Contemporary in Istanbul, MUAC in Mexico City, 21st Century Museum of Art in Kanazawa, MAG in Manchester, MUSAC in Leon, MONA in Hobart, ZKM in Karlsruhe, MAC in Montréal and SAM in Singapore, among others.

He has received two BAFTA British Academy Awards for Interactive Art in London, a Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica in Austria, “Artist of the year” Rave Award from Wired Magazine, a Rockefeller fellowship, the Trophée des Lumières in Lyon and an International Bauhaus Award in Dessau. He has lectured 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 Cente, CCA in Montreal, ICA in London and the Art Institute of Chicago.
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source: aluap333blogspot
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer nació en la Ciudad de México en 1967. En 1989 recibió una licenciatura en Química Física de la Universidad Concordia en Montreal, Canadá.
Artísta electrónico, desarrolla instalaciones interactivas que se encuentran en la intersección de la arquitectura y el arte de la performance. Su interés principal está en la creación de plataformas para la participación pública, la perversión de tecnologías como la robótica, la vigilancia computarizada y las redes telemáticas.Inspirados en la fantasmagoría, el carnaval y la anima trónica, su luz y sombra son las obras “antimonumentos para la agencia extranjero”.
Su trabajo ha sido desarrollado para eventos como las celebraciones del Milenio en la Ciudad de México (1999), la Capital Cultural de Europa en Rotterdam (2001), las Naciones Unidas de la Cumbre Mundial de Ciudades en Lyon (2003), la apertura del Centro YCAM en Japón (2003), la ampliación de la Unión Europea en Dublín (2004), el memorial de la masacre de Tlatelolco de estudiantes en la Ciudad de México (2008), el 50 º aniversario del Museo Guggenheim de Nueva York (2009) y los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno en Vancouver ( 2010).
Su escultura cinética, entornos interactivos, instalaciones de vídeo y fotografías han sido expuestas en museos de cuatro docenas de países. En 2007 fue el primer artista en representar oficialmente a México en la Bienal de Venecia con una exposición individual en el Palacio Soranzo Van Axel. También ha demostrado en Bienales de Arte de Sydney, Liverpool, Shanghai, Estambul, Sevilla, Seúl, La Habana y Nueva Orleans. Su trabajo se encuentra en colecciones públicas y privadas como el Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York, la colección Jumex en México, el Museo de Arte de 21 de siglo en Kanazawa, la Fundación Daros en Zurich y Tate en Londres.
Ha recibido dos premios BAFTA de la Academia Británica Premios al Arte Interactivo en Londres, una Nica de Oro en el Prix Ars Electronica en Austria, una distinción en los premios SFMOMA Webby en San Francisco, “Artista del año” premio Rave de Wired Magazine, una Rockefeller comunión, el Trophée des Lumières de Lyon y un premio Bauhaus en Dessau.