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> From: "Wayne Ashley" <
washley@lmcc.net>
> Date: November 12, 2004 7:03:19 PM EST
> To: "Wayne Ashley" <
washley@lmcc.net>
> 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
>