Rafael Lozano-Hemmer installation view at New Orleans Biennial
Rafael’s Pulse Tank (2008) is an installation view that records the heartbeats of its viewers at the Prospect.1: New Orleans Biennial, New Orleans.
Their pulses reverberate through the water as ripples, radiating outwards from the source and illuminated on the surrounding walls. The vital signs of up to 5 people can be simultaneously detected, creating turbulent patterns in the water.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Born in 1967 in Mexico City, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer received a B. Sc in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, where he now resides.
An electronic artist who develops large-scale interactive installations in public space, Rafael usually deploying new technologies and custom-made physical interfaces. Using robotics, projections, sound, internet and cell-phone links, sensors and other devices, his installations aim to provide “temporary antimonuments for alien agency”.
A recipient of the International Bauhaus Award in Dessau, his honors also include the Golden Nica from Ars Electronica, a Rockefeller Fellowship, a Daniel Langlois Foundation grant, two British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards in Interactive Art, and the Trophée des Lumières in Lyon.
Also, in 2008, he was commissioned to present his first permanent public art installation in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco neighborhood of Mexico City to mark the fortieth anniversary of the student massacre that occurred there in 1968.
His first United States retrospective, “Recorders” is slated to open at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, in February 2009.
Pulse Tank, 2008
the Prospect.1: New Orleans Biennial
Ripple tank, heart rate sensors, solenoids, computer, spotlight, custom software and hardware
61 x 94.5 x 35.5″ / 155 x 240 x 90 cm
Source and images credit: bitforms, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, photo by: Scott Saltzman.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
4040 St. Laurent, Studio 5
Montréal, Québec
H2W 1Y8, Canada
Tel.: 1 514 597 0917
www.lozano-hemmer.com
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