Rafael Lozano Hemmer

Rafael Lozano Hemmer is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who works with ideas from architecture, technological theater and performance. His work can be considered as a blend of interactive art and performance art, using both large and small scales, indoor and outdoor settings and a wide variety of audiovisual techologies. 

He do works with lights for a long time, but he likes to do someting in the dark, the shadows. See Hemmer (1012) 

I am interesting in several art-works he done.

1. Third Person 

Here is a video shows his work:

 

 It shows the viewer's shadow revealing hundreds of tiny words that are in fact all the verbs of the dictionary conjugated in the third person. And it appears automatically to fill his or her silhouette. This work is a kind of similar with my idea of shadow. When people passby their body shape will appear on the LED lighting wall as a shadow or an animal's shadow. There is a  big diference between us. My shadow idea is focus on pattern, in other words, what is the pattern. My idea is use the pattern to attract people. Compare with me, his work concentrates on "behind" the pattern, how to make the pattern, how the pattern changes. when people realize there are something "behind" the pattern, they will have more then curiosity. I think Hemmer did a better job on handle people's mind.

 2. Subtitled Public

 

                                           see  http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/subtitled_public.php

It consists of an empty exhibition space where visitors are detected by a computerized surveillance system. When people enter the space, the system generates a subtitle for each person and projects it onto him or her: the subtitle is chosen at random from a list of all the verbs conjugated in the third person. The only way of getting rid of a subtitle is to touch another person, which leads to the two subtitles being exchanged. It is from Hemmer (2005).

 It isn't related to my ideas, but the way make people communicate is very interesting. In my ideas need some elements like this--to make people "play with".

3. Under Scan

                                                  Hemmer (2005)

It is a work doing in the shadows. In the installation, the portraits appear at random locations. They "wake-up" and establish eye contact with a viewer as soon as his or her shadow "reveals" them. As the viewer walks away, the portrait reacts by looking away, and eventually disappears if no one activates it.

I like this because it is diference from most of other light works. It use a specail way to focus on shadow. The light image appears in the shadow when the whole area is bright, which is i never seen that before. It is focus on an aspect that peope are always ignor. My ideas need some this  element.

Reference:

HEMMER, R. L., 2012. Open Air, Relational Architecture 19: Interview with James Ewing, Philadelphia. Available at: http://creatorsproject.cn/creators/rafael-lozano-hemmer--2)

HEMMER, R. L., 2005. Subtitled Public [online]. London: Hemmer, Rafael Lozano. Available at: http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/subtitled_public.php

HEMMER, R. L., 2005. Under Scan [online]. Lincoln, UK: Hemmer, Rafael Lozano. Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQxLcxQAvOY