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September 12, 2006
Rafael Lozano Hemmer at bitforms
On Friday, September 15, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, the renowned new media artist draws on surveillance and phantasmagoria for his second solo exhibition in the U.S. The exhibition is called Underscan, Relational Architecture 11. It's a large-scale public art project commissioned by the East Midlands Development Agency in England. Thousands of "video-portraits" taken in Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton and Nottingham will be projected onto the ground of the main squares and pedestrian thoroughfares of these cities. At first, the portraits will not be visible because the space will be flooded by white light coming from the world’s most powerful projector. As people walk around the area, their shadow will be cast on the floor, revealing the video-portraits. The short video sequences begin with the subjects in a still position turned away from the camera. As they appear within pedestrians' shadows, their bodies move and their heads turn to look straight at the pedestrian, potentially giving rise to an interesting range of interactions. When a shadow moves away from a portrait, the portrait likewise reacts by losing interest and looking away.
Posted by richard ting at September 12, 2006 11:03 PM
