"under scan was a large-scale public art installation featuring 1,000 interactive portraits. The piece was commissioned by East Midlands Development Agency (emda) to celebrate the new cultural quarters in the East Midlands region of England. This book and DVD document the massive shadow play that transformed pedestrian areas in Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton and Nottingham in 2005 and 2006. The book includes critical essays by ..."
"This catalogue documents and discusses a specific body of 8 works including 3 new commissions made between 2000 and 2010 by renowned electronic artist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer where the content is determined by interaction with the audience."
"Critical analyses, case studies, and artist interviews examine works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer. How are we to understand works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer? A relationship between a work of art and its audience that is rooted in an experience that is both aesthetic and physical? Today, these works often use digital technologies, but artists have created p ..."
Recorders by RafaelLozano-Hemmer Hardcover, Published 2010 by Manchester Art Gallety ISBN-13: 978-0-901673-79-4, ISBN: 0-901673-79-X
"This first major monograph on the electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was produced on the occasion of the 2007 Venice Biennale, where Lozano-Hemmer presented six interactive installations--becoming the first artist to officially represent Mexico at the Biennale. Born in Mexico City in 1967, Lozano-Hemmer studied Physical Chemistry at Concordia University in Montreal, and now uses his background in the sciences to create the large-sca ..."
Vectorial Elevation Relational Architecture No. 4 (English and Spanish Edition) by RafaelLozano-Hemmer Paperback, 340 Pages, Published 2000 by Conaculta ISBN-13: 978-970-18-5553-9, ISBN: 970-18-5553-1
"With the arrival of the year 2000, Mexico City's Zócalo Square was transformed by immense light sculptures created by participants on the Internet using a virtual reality program. This book documents the interactive art project Vectorial Elevation, which allowed thousands of people from 89 countries to control 18 robotic searchlights with 126,000 watts of power and link Cyberspace with Mexico's most emblematic urban landscape. Prominen ..."
""Pseudomatism" is the first monograph on Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born 1967). Featuring 43 works, it spans more than two decades of production using technology-based approaches, including interactive video, robotics, computerized surveillance, photography and sound sculpture."
"In recent centuries a whole range of exact systems has been developed in order to describe and categorize spoken and written communication: phonologically, morphologically, syntactically, semantically, pragmatically, stylistically. But there is nothing similar for visual and audio communication, despite the fact that the importance of these media has increased dramatically over the last 200 years. Attempts to develop various systems for ..."
"El futuro no es sólo un tiempo por venir sino la idea de que en ese tiempo existe, de algún modo, la posibilidad de mejoras y progreso constante y que somos capaces de alcanzarlo. Hubo un momento en la historia en el que pensamos que el futuro ya no era algo que se advertía, más o menos lejano, en el horizonte, como una promesa de un mundo mejor y posible, sino el medio mismo en el que nos había tocado vivir. El futuro por fin había lle ..."
"Saggi e interviste Laura Barreca, Mario Cristiani, Maria Dompè, Julia Draganovic
, 0 Group Elastic, Flavio Favelli, Piero Gilardi, Antonella Greco, Rafael Lozano-
Hemmer, Patrizia Mania, Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli, Paolo Martore, Anna
Mattirolo, Roberto Pinto, Dana ... Su quest'asse, il progetto di Arezzo svolge una
ruolo pilota, articolandosi lungo tre cardini ... su di una struttura di circa
quattrocento tubi innocenti (element ..."
"The focus of this exhibition of new and recent work by Rafael Lozano Hemmer is a particular thread of his practice that explores the very personal, emotionally evocative, nature of his art that embodies and activates signs of life. All of the installations are conceptually rooted in decidedly core human physical labors that include the beating heart, the breathing body and the keystone of human communication, the voice. The individual m ..."
"The Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City is pleased to present Pseudomatisms, the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the work of media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in his native country. Curated by José Luis Barrios and Alejandra Labastida, the exhibition features 42 artworks that span 23 years of production using interactive video, robotics, computerized surveillance, photography and sound sculpture. ..."