Artist Talk with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Downtown Artist Talk with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Anti-Monuments: Performative Self-repair for Public Spaces.

Wednesday, November 17, 7:00 PM
Multipurpose Room in the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts Pace
University
3 Spruce Street, between Park Row and Gold Street (entrance closer to
Gold). $5 Admission, free for students

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, an internationally renowned Mexican-Canadian
artist, creates interactive public art works that explore the
intersection between new technologies, public space and performance art.
Using robotics, tracking systems, online interfaces, high-power
projectors and other media, Lozano-Hemmer's work transforms space into a
vehicle to study the distance between people and urban representation.
http://www.lozano-hemmer.com.

Lozano-Hemmer will discuss the most recent additions to his "Relational
Architecture" series, a group of large scale interactive public works
commissioned for London, Tokyo, Toronto, and Cologne, as well as newer
works for exhibition spaces. These include FREQUENCY AND VOLUME, 800
square metres of projected shadows which allow participants to scan the
radio spectrum of the city with their bodies; and STANDARDS AND DOUBLE
STANDARDS, an interactive installation that consists of fifty fastened
belts that are suspended at waist height from the ceiling. Controlled by
a computerized tracking system, the belts rotate automatically to follow
the public, turning their buckles slowly to face passers-by.

This talk is featured as part of Mexico Now (www.mexiconowfestival.org),
a month-long, city-wide celebration of Mexican art and culture organized
by Arts International. Lozano-Hemmer's upcoming partnership with the
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council is a part of Downtown Digital Futures,
LMCC's multi-year platform for artists, cultural planners, urban
developers, and technologists to creatively explore the role of art and
technology in the transformation of Lower Manhattan and other urban
centers. Downtown Digital Futures includes public art installations,
artists' talks, large-scale commissions, and a research and policy think
tank. For more information, please visit http://www.lmcc.net/ddf

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Wayne Ashley
Curator of New Media & Public Programs
120 Broadway
31st Floor
New York, NY 10271
T 212-219-9401 x106
F 212-219-2058

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Wayne Ashley" <[email protected]>
> Date: November 12, 2004 7:03:19 PM EST
> To: "Wayne Ashley" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Artist Talk with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
>
> Downtown Artist Talk with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
> Anti-Monuments: Performative Self-repair for Public Spaces.
>
> Wednesday, November 17, 7:00 PM
> Multipurpose Room in the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts Pace
> University
> 3 Spruce Street, between Park Row and Gold Street (entrance closer to
> Gold). $5 Admission, free for students
>
> Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, an internationally renowned Mexican-Canadian
> artist, creates interactive public art works that explore the
> intersection between new technologies, public space and performance
> art.
> Using robotics, tracking systems, online interfaces, high-power
> projectors and other media, Lozano-Hemmer's work transforms space into
> a
> vehicle to study the distance between people and urban representation.
> http://www.lozano-hemmer.com.
>
> Lozano-Hemmer will discuss the most recent additions to his "Relational
> Architecture" series, a group of large scale interactive public works
> commissioned for London, Tokyo, Toronto, and Cologne, as well as newer
> works for exhibition spaces. These include FREQUENCY AND VOLUME, 800
> square metres of projected shadows which allow participants to scan the
> radio spectrum of the city with their bodies; and STANDARDS AND DOUBLE
> STANDARDS, an interactive installation that consists of fifty fastened
> belts that are suspended at waist height from the ceiling. Controlled
> by
> a computerized tracking system, the belts rotate automatically to
> follow
> the public, turning their buckles slowly to face passers-by.
>
> This talk is featured as part of Mexico Now
> (www.mexiconowfestival.org),
> a month-long, city-wide celebration of Mexican art and culture
> organized
> by Arts International. Lozano-Hemmer's upcoming partnership with the
> Lower Manhattan Cultural Council is a part of Downtown Digital Futures,
> LMCC's multi-year platform for artists, cultural planners, urban
> developers, and technologists to creatively explore the role of art and
> technology in the transformation of Lower Manhattan and other urban
> centers. Downtown Digital Futures includes public art installations,
> artists' talks, large-scale commissions, and a research and policy
> think
> tank. For more information, please visit http://www.lmcc.net/ddf
>
> ————————————–
> Wayne Ashley
> Curator of New Media & Public Programs
> 120 Broadway
> 31st Floor
> New York, NY 10271
> T 212-219-9401 x106
> F 212-219-2058
>