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Surface Tension is an interactive installation where an image of a giant human eye follows the observer with orwellian precision. This work was inspired by a reading of Georges Bataille’s text The Solar Anus during the first Gulf War –the first

Synaptic Caguamas is a kinetic sculpture consisting of a motorized Mexican “cantina” bar table with 30 “Caguama”-sized beer bottles (1-litre each). The bottles spin on the table with patterns generated by cellular automata algorithms that simulate

A light source rotates around the visitors like a satellite, causing their shadows to rotate like a clock. The waxing and disappearing of the shadow distort their faces. Although it turns about 1440 times faster than the midnight sun at the North

TITLE: There is no business ARTIST: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer WORK DATE: 2009 CATEGORY: Installations MATERIALS: Installation néon, métal, timer / neon installation, metal, timer EDITION/SET OF: 1/6 SIZE: h: 60 x w: 60 x d: 8 cm / h: 23.6

The digital animation "Conquistadors" examines the tensions and conflicts that define the Russian territory in the age of privatization. The artist reflects on current modes of domination, both foreign and domestic, on the Russian territory, and

Third Person is the second piece of the ShadowBox series of interactive displays with a built-in computerized tracking system. This piece shows the viewer's shadow revealing hundreds of tiny words that are in fact all the verbs of the dictionary

Under Scan is an interactive video art installation for public space. In the work, passers-by are detected by a computerized tracking system, which activates video-portraits projected within their shadow. Over one thousand video-portraits of

Wavefunction is a kinetic sculpture comprised of fifty to one hundred Charles and Ray Eames moulded chairs (designed in 1948) and placed in a regular array of rows, facing the entrance to the exhibition space. When someone approaches the work, a

For me, as an artist working with software CONSPIRE is first about encoding. As an ex-soviet, I perceive CONSPIRE in the same time like a dissident’s practice (an other way of encoding!) and like a monitoring following by manipulation – all kind of

"Alpha Blend" is the seventh piece in the Shadow Box series of interactive displays with a built-in computerized tracking system. This piece shows the viewer's presence revealing and blending pictures of people who have recently looked at the work.