Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Text Art

By Randy Gladman. Originally published in Contemporary, Text Art Special, vol.21, Issue 13, 2008 We interact with technology hundreds of times a day. We dial telephone numbers, scan our food through supermarket check-out lasers, change the television channel and move our mouse to surf to another web page. We click, slide, dial, push, swipe, turn and type on our machines to communicate our contextual commands, and we take for granted that the device will understand our desires and provide an expected result. The point of interface, where our bodies meet our machines, is at...

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,...