Merlion
06-01-2007, 12:58 AM
Two related articles about Montreal-based artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and his interactive light sculptures exhibition at Toronto.
Light up the night to the beat of your heart (http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/219631)
May 31, 2007, ... One of the world's biggest interactive light sculptures, "Pulse Front: Relational Architecture 12" from Montreal-based artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, will blast 20 pulsing mega-watt light beams with its awesome 200,000 watts of power up to 10 kilometres into the sky northward over the city.
Here's a light show visible from space......
Pulse Front" is also part of "Auto Emotion: Autobiography, emotion and self-fashioning" an art-star driven exhibition at the Power Plant at Harbortfront Centre that's curated by the gallery's director, Gregory Burke.
In their individual efforts toward their own self-fashioning, "Pulse Front's" visitors, "are registering their own heartbeats as spectacular projections," says Burke.
"They are, in effect, autographs," he adds.
"The dome of light on top of all of Harbourfront will be controlled by people's pulses," says the internationally acclaimed Mexican-born Canadian artist also representing Mexico at the Venice Biennale in Italy starting next week .....
Light this up just by moving (http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-05-31/art_story2.php)
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-05-31/art_story2-1.jpg
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, a Montreal-based Mexican-Canadian artist, has developed an international reputation for putting together public installations that empower viewers by rethinking the function of technology. In keeping with the theme of Luminato, light plays a major role in his oeuvre.
Spectators become participants in a Lozano-Hemmer installation, altering the work with their physical presence and behaviour. For his Relational Architecture series, he projects images or text that are only visible in people's shadows and sets up searchlight arrays that can be controlled by logging onto a website or sending a text message. ...
Light up the night to the beat of your heart (http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/219631)
May 31, 2007, ... One of the world's biggest interactive light sculptures, "Pulse Front: Relational Architecture 12" from Montreal-based artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, will blast 20 pulsing mega-watt light beams with its awesome 200,000 watts of power up to 10 kilometres into the sky northward over the city.
Here's a light show visible from space......
Pulse Front" is also part of "Auto Emotion: Autobiography, emotion and self-fashioning" an art-star driven exhibition at the Power Plant at Harbortfront Centre that's curated by the gallery's director, Gregory Burke.
In their individual efforts toward their own self-fashioning, "Pulse Front's" visitors, "are registering their own heartbeats as spectacular projections," says Burke.
"They are, in effect, autographs," he adds.
"The dome of light on top of all of Harbourfront will be controlled by people's pulses," says the internationally acclaimed Mexican-born Canadian artist also representing Mexico at the Venice Biennale in Italy starting next week .....
Light this up just by moving (http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-05-31/art_story2.php)
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-05-31/art_story2-1.jpg
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, a Montreal-based Mexican-Canadian artist, has developed an international reputation for putting together public installations that empower viewers by rethinking the function of technology. In keeping with the theme of Luminato, light plays a major role in his oeuvre.
Spectators become participants in a Lozano-Hemmer installation, altering the work with their physical presence and behaviour. For his Relational Architecture series, he projects images or text that are only visible in people's shadows and sets up searchlight arrays that can be controlled by logging onto a website or sending a text message. ...