Displaced Emperors

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

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Co-Worker: Frieder Nake
Mnemosyne
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Description
Relational Architecture 2
"Displaced Emperors" was the second relational architecture project of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. This installation used an "architact" interface to transform the Habsburg Castle in Linz, Austria. Wireless 3D sensors calculated where participants pointed to on the facade and a large animated projection of a hand was shown at that location. As people on the street "caressed" the building, they could reveal the interiors, which corresponded to Chapultepec Castle, the Habsburg residence in Mexico City. In addition, for ten schillings, people could press the "Moctezuma button" and trigger a temporary post-colonial override consisting of a huge image of the Aztec head-dress that is kept at the ethnological museum in Vienna.

(Photos by Antimodular Research)
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • interactive
    • projected
    • real-time
    • tactile
  • genres
    • installations
      • interactive installations
  • subjects
    • Arts and Visual Culture
      • architecture
    • Body and Psychology
      • hands
Technology & Material
Display
Year of Creation: 1997
Technique: One 7 kW Xenon projector with robotic scrollers and Duraclear transparencies, wireless 3D tracking system, sound system.
Dimensions: 800 m2 (projection surface)
Keywords: database, interactive, lights, outdoor, projection, robotic, site-specific, sound, tracker, performer.
Exhibitions & Events
Recorders: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Ars Electronica 1997: Fleshfactor
Bibliography
1 publication