Rafael Lozano-HemmerNisa Gil

1993-2010 sampler video

Quick Bio• Born in Mexico City in 1967• Bachelors in Science in Physical Chemistry 1989 from Concordia

University in Montreal• His science background inspired and often helps with the interactive

installations he creates.• Known for large scale interactive installations

Off his site:He has received two BAFTA British Academy Awards for Interactive Art in London, a Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica in Austria, “Artist of the year” Rave Award from Wired Magazine, a Rockefeller fellowship, the Trophée des Lumières in Lyon and an International Bauhaus Award in Dessau. He has lectured at Goldsmiths college, the Bartlett school, Princeton, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Cooper Union, USC, MIT MediaLab, Guggenheim Museum, LA MOCA, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Cornell, UPenn, SCAD, Danish Architecture Cente, CCA in Montreal, ICA in London and the Art Institute of Chicago.

More Grants and Awards• Joyce Award, The Joyce Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, United States

2012.• Knights Arts Challenge for Open Air, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United

States 2011.• National Endowment for the Arts grant for Open Air, Washington,

District of Columbia, United States 2011.• BAFTA British Academy Award for Interactive Art 2005, London, United

Kingdom 2005.• Artist/Performer of the year, Wired Magazine Rave Awards, San

Francisco, California, United States 2003.• Best Interactive Installation, HorizonZero, Banff, Alberta, Canada 2003.• Foreign Affairs ACA Grant, Canada 2003.• Production grant from the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montréal,

Québec, Canada 2003.• Rockefeller-Ford Fellowship, New York City, New York, United States

2003.• Trophée des Lumiéres, Lyon, France 2003.• World Technology Network Award for the Arts, San Francisco,

California, United States 2003.• BAFTA British Academy Award for Interactive Art 2002, London, United

Kingdom 2002.• Gold Award, Interactive Media Design Review 2002, I.D. Magazine,

United States 2002.• Interactive Art Distinction, Ars Electronica 2002, Linz, Austria 2002.• International Bauhaus Award 2002, 1st Prize, Dessau, Germany 2002.• Jury member, Fondation Daniel Langlois, Montréal, Québec, Canada

2001.

• Media Arts Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada 2001.• Distinction, SFMOMA Webby Awards 2000, San Francisco,

California, United States 2000.• Excellence Award, Media Arts Festival 2000, CG Arts, Tokyo,

Japan 2000.• Finalist, Medienkunstpreis 2000, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

2000.• Interactive Art Golden Nica, Ars Electronica 2000, Linz,

Austria 2000.• Interactive Art Honorable Mention, Ars Electronica 1998,

Linz, Austria 1998.• Best Installation, Interactive Digital Media Awards 1996,

Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1996.• 2nd Prize, Cyberstar, Köln, Germany, June 1995.• Interactive Art Honorable Mention, Ars Electronica 1995,

Linz, Austria 1995.• Canada Council Computer Integrated Media Grant 1994.• Equipment Grant, Communications Canada 1993.• Travel Grant, ICEX España 1993.• Travel Grant, External Affairs Canada 1992.• Bourse circulation, Ministère des Affaires culturelles du

Québec 1991.• Canada Council Touring Office Grant 1991.• Canadian Consulate Grant, New York City, New York, United

States 1991.• Canada Council Computer Integrated Media Grant 1990.

“What you give is what you get.”

• Lozano-Hemmer’s work deals a lot with presence• Work often uses the audience as an element of the work• A lot of pieces record (whether visually as in Sandbox, as a pulse in all his

Pulse pieces, or as the objects they give up in Please Empty Your Pockets)

- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Art 21

After working for twenty years at the intersection of performance, architecture, and critical studies, I’m very curious about creating platforms for self-representation and participation. My work is incomplete and experimental in nature. The platforms require people to participate, they require people to be aware of the events and then take the piece in a direction that suits them.

- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer said during an interview for Art 21 when asked to talk about his work

Please Empty Your Pockets, 2010

2010 - Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdomalso shown at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia and the Global

Contemporary, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany both in 2011

Sandbox, 2010

2010 - Glow, Santa Monica Beach, Santa Monica, United States

Pulse Room, 2006

2006 - "Plataforma", Fábrica La Constancia, Puebla, MéxicoAlso shown at museums and galleries in Australia, US, UK, Canada, Spain, and Italy

Why Lozano-Hemmer

Music Box:• 0:10 – 0:25http

://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BXt-ngChl6Y#!

• 0:23 – 0:55http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=It_xQabpzE4#!

Pulse Installation:• http://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=t1SePj_BloQ

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u57NrDyd2IY

Why Lozano-Hemmer

Relation to other Artists

• Daniel Rozin’s Mechanical Mirror, 1999http://www.smoothware.com/danny/woodenmirror.html

• Olafur Elliason, specifically the Weather Project, 2003 http://vimeo.com/12671888

• Lozano-Hemmer’s Solar Equation, 2010http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/videos.php?id=solar_equation

Sources

• Website: http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/• http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/bio.php• http://blog.art21.org/2010/09/23/what-you-gi

ve-is-what-you-get-rafael-lozano-hemmer/