Third Person is the second piece of the ShadowBox series of interactive displays with a built-in computerized tracking system. This piece shows the viewer's shadow revealing hundreds of tiny words that are in fact all the verbs of the dictionary conjugated in the third person. The portrait of the viewer is drawn in real time by active words, which appear automatically to fill his or her silhouette. The collector may choose to display the words in English, Spanish or French, or a combin...

"Solar Equation" is a large-scale public art installation that consists of a faithful simulation of the Sun, 100 million times smaller than the real thing. Commissioned by the Light in Winter Festival in Melbourne, the piece features the world’s largest spherical balloon, custom-manufactured for the project, which is tethered over Federation Square and animated using five projectors. The solar animation on the balloon is generated by live mathematical equations that simulate the turb...

  "Pulse Park" is comprised of a matrix of light beams that graze the central oval field of Madison Square Park. Their intensity is entirely modulated by a sensor that measures the heart rate of participants and the resulting effect is the visualization of vital signs, arguably our most symbolic biometric, in an urban scale. In Pulse Park, evening visitors to Madison Square Park have their systolic and diastolic activity measured by a sensor sculpture installed at the Nort...

Standards and Double Standards is an interactive installation that consists of 10 to 100 fastened belts that are suspended at waist height from stepper motors on the ceiling of the exhibition room. Controlled by a computerized tracking system, the belts rotate automatically to follow the public, turning their buckles slowly to face passers-by. When several people are in the room their presence affects the entire group of belts, creating chaotic patterns of interference. Non-linear behavi...

1,000 Platitudes is a large-scale photographic intervention project. It is comprised of photomontages and a video with 1,000 words or expressions commonly used to promote globalised cities to potential investors, such as "open", "modern", "clean", "multicultural" and "cosmopolitan", for example. To make these images, a powerful projector (110,000 ANSI lumens of intensity for images of up to 70 x 70 metres) was placed on a 12-ton truck wit...

In this intervention the emblematic Place du Capitole in Toulouse was transformed by a projection of The Book of Two Origins, a 13th-century heretical manuscript compiling the theological beliefs of the dualist cathars. Once a vibrant community in several regions of Europe, the believers in the two origins of the Universe were virtually annihilated by the brutal crusades that gave birth to the Inquisition and France's expansion. The texts are illegible since they are projected overlappin...

"Vectorial Elevation" is an interactive art project originally designed to celebrate the arrival of the year 2000 in Mexico City's Zócalo Square. The website www.alzado.net enabled any Internet user to design light sculptures over the city's historic centre, with eighteen searchlights positioned around the square. These searchlights, whose powerful beams could be seen within a 15 kilometers radius, were controlled by an online 3D simulation program and visualised by digital ca...

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Recorders Catalogue of Recorders exhibition which took place in Manchester Art Gallery. Softcover: 64 pages Publisher : Manchester Art Gallery Language:  English Dimensions: 22 x 27 cm ISBN : 978-0-901673-78-7      Editor : Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Design : Pauline Minsky Autors : Moira Stevenson, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Timothy Druckrey, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Beryl Graham, Jacinta Laurent Purchase Online Rafael Lo...

BAFTA British Academy Award for Interactive Art 2005, London, United Kingdom 2005. Artist/Performer of the year, Wired Magazine Rave Awards, San Francisco, California, United States 2003. Best Interactive Installation, HorizonZero, Banff, Alberta, Canada 2003. Foreign Affairs ACA Grant, Canada 2003. Production grant from the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montréal, Québec, Canada 2003. Rockefeller-Ford Fellowship, New York City, New York, United States 2003. Trophée des Lumiéres, Lyon, Fr...

Solo Exhibitions 2010 "Pulse Show", Beall Center, University of California, Irvine, California, United States, September 30th - January 22nd 2011. "Recorders", Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom, September 15th - January 30th 2011. "Solar Equation", Light in winter festival, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, June 4th - July 9th. "Vigilancias Materializadas", Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain, May 13th - July 24th. &qu...

  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.   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 animatron...