Ryan Humphrey’s Streets of Fire

By Randy Gladman.  Originally published in Smock Magazine, Winter, 2002 Space, Race, Time and Place Ryan Humphrey Streets of Fire at Caren Golden Fine Art Walking into Ryan Humphrey’s solo show at Caren Golden Fine Art was like walking into Valhalla; a place where the holy relics of my childhood heroes retired for eternity. I’ve searched and searched for this place — this garden of delights where my boyhood toys relocated after Mom trashed them when I moved to college. I’ve ransacked her house so many times, disbelieving the fact that she turned over my...

Rafael Lozanon-Hemmer at ARS Electronica

By Randy Gladman.  Originally published in Canadian Art Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 4, Winter 2002 Body Movies: A Linz Ars Electronica Festival award winner on the State of Interactive Art Interview with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Installing large scale interactive artworks in heavily trafficked and populated zones of cities around the world, Canadian/Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer explores the intersection between new technologies, public space, active participation and ‘alien memory.’ As part of this year’s ARS Electronica festival of new media art in Linz, Austria,...