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Artist: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer ( United States ) -
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Main Category: Computer Art
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Genres: Contemporary American Art
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Biography: For the past twelve years Lozano-Hemmer has been developing interactive art installations that seek to create connective, social and performative experiences. His "Relational Architecture" series of large-scale interventions in public spaces has deployed new technologies and custom-made interfaces to transform urban environments. Using robotics, real-time computer graphics, film projections, positional sound, internet links, cell phones, video and ultrasonic sensors, and other devices, his pieces aim to reconnect the public sphere with an increasingly alienating urban condition.
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.
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Exhibition History: His work has been shown in two dozen countries, including the Liverpool Biennial (UK), the Itau Cultural (Brazil), the Istanbul Biennial (Turkey), the Cultural Capital of Europe Festival (Holland), the ARCO art fair (Spain), Bienal de la Habana (Cuba), Architecture and Media Biennale (Austria), Museo de Monterrey (México), the Musée des Beaux Arts (Montréal), SIGGRAPH'93 (USA), the Basque Museum of Contemporary Art (Spain) and others. In 1998, he was commissioned to develop a monumental interactive artwork in the Zócalo Square in Mexico City for the Millennium Celebrations. He was recently awarded the Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica in Austria, a Rave Award 2003 from Wired Magazine, a BAFTA for interactive art in London, a Rockefeller fellowship and an International Bauhaus Award in Dessau, Germany.
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