Artist Biography

Hemmer
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was born in Mexico City in 1967. In 1989 he received a B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montréal, Canada.

Electronic artist, develops interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture and performance art. His main interest is in creating platforms for public participation, by perverting technologies such as robotics, computerized surveillance or telematic networks. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival and animatronics, his light and shadow works are “antimonuments for alien agency”.

His work has been commissioned for events such as the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the Cultural Capital of Europe in Rotterdam (2001), the UN World Summit of Cities in Lyon (2003), the opening of the YCAM Center in Japan (2003), the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004), the memorial for the Tlatelolco Student Massacre in Mexico City (2008), the 50th Anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2009) and the Winter Olympics in Vancouver (2010).

His kinetic sculptures, responsive environments, video installations and photographs have been shown in museums in four dozen countries. In 2007 he was the first artist to officially represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale with a solo exhibition at Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel. He has also shown at Art Biennials in Sydney, Liverpool, Shanghai, Istanbul, Seville, Seoul, Havana and New Orleans. His work is in private and public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Jumex collection in Mexico, the Museum of 21st Century Art in Kanazawa, the Daros Foundation in Zürich and TATE in London.

He has received two BAFTA British Academy Awards for Interactive Art in London, a Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica in Austria, a distinction at the SFMOMA Webby Awards in San Francisco, "Artist of the year" Rave Award in Wired Magazine, a Rockefeller fellowship, the Trophée des Lumières in Lyon and an International Bauhaus Award in Dessau.

He has given many workshops and conferences, among them at Goldsmiths college, the Bartlett school, Princeton, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Cooper Union, MIT MediaLab, Guggenheim Museum, LA MOCA, Netherlands Architecture Institute and the Art Institute of Chicago. His writing has been published in Kunstforum (Germany), Leonardo (USA), Performance Research (UK), Telepolis (Germany), Movimiento Actual (Mexico), Archis (Netherlands), Aztlán (USA) and other art and media publications.

Solo Exhibitions

2012

2011

2010

2009

  • "Pulse Glow", Pulse Glow Festival, City Hall, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
  • "Recent works", Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • "Transition States", Haunch of Venison Gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
  • Levels of Nothingness, Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York, United States. Commissioned by Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum, celebrating its 25th anniversary together with the Museum's 50th anniversary. Funded by the Colección/Fundación Jumex, Deutsche Bank, German Consulate General and Mexican Cultural Institute.

2008

2007

  • "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", bitforms Gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
  • "Some Things Happen More Often Than All Of The Time" (curated by: Príamo Lozada and Bárbara Perea), Mexican Pavilion, 52 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
  • Pulse Front (curated by: Gregory Burke from Power Plant), Power Plant, Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Public art installation commissioned by and premiered at LuminaTO and co-produced with Harbourfront Centre.

2006

  • Under scan, East Midlands Development Agency, Castle Wharf, Nottingham, United Kingdom, March. Public art commission.
  • Under scan, East Midlands Development Agency, Market Square, Derby, United Kingdom, February - March. Public art commission.
  • Under scan, East Midlands Development Agency, Humberstone Gate West, Leicester, United Kingdom, January. Public art commission.
  • "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
  • Body Movies, Museum of Art, HK Arts Development Council, Hong Kong, China.

2005

2004

  • "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", OMR Gallery, Mexico City, México, November - December.
  • Vectorial Elevation, celebrations of Europe expansion, O'Connell Street, Dublin, Ireland.

2003

  • "Relational Architectures" (curated by: Priamo Lozada), Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, México, May - June.
  • Amodal Suspension, opening project of the Yamaguchi Center for Art and Media, Yamaguchi, Japan. Access Pods and terminals for the piece were installed at: MACBA in Barcelona, MARS Lab in Bonn, C3 in Budapest, Fundación Telefónica in Buenos Aires, MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Bauhaus in Dessau, IAMAS in Ogaki, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Kyoto Art Center in Kyoto, FACT in Liverpool, Science Museum in London, Ojo Atómico in Madrid, Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, SAT in Montréal, Sarai in New Delhi, Eyebeam in New York City, Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh, V2_Organisatie in Rotterdam, Itaú Cultural Center in São Paulo, Sendai Mediatheque in Sendai, Art Center Nabi in Seoul, NTT-ICC in Tokyo, MeSci in Tokyo, Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, Emily Carr in Vancouver, WRO Center in Wroclaw and Multimedia Institute in Zagreb.
  • Body Movies, Duisburg Akzente, Duisburg, Germany.
  • Vectorial Elevation (curated by: Claire Peillod), Fête des Lumières, Place Bellecour, Lyon, France.
  • "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States.

2002

2001

  • Airport Cluster (curated by: Pat Binder), Foto/Graphik Galerie Käethe Kollwitz, Berlin, Germany.
  • Body Movies (curated by: Alex Adriaansens and Andreas Broeckmann), Cultural Capital of Europe Festival, V2 Grounding, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

1999

1997

  • Re:Positioning Fear (curated by: Charlotte Pöchacker), 3rd Internationale Biennale Film +Architektur, Graz, Austria.

1992

  • "On the Same Hand but in a Different Vein", Galerie Stornaway, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
  • Group Exhibitions

    2012

    • Field Conditions (curated by: Joseph Becker), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, United States, September 1st - January 1st 2013.
    • Transverso: Instalaciones y nuevos medios en Iberoamérica (curated by: José Manuel Noceda and Orlando Britto), Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain, September - October.
    • Contentious Borderlines (curated by: Xandra Eden), Weatherspoon Art Museum Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States, June 1st - September 1st.
    • The Eleventh Bienal de la Habana (curated by: Ibis Hernández), Havana, Cuba, May 11th - June 11th.
    • "Time-Lapse" (curated by: Irene Hofmann), Site Santa Fe, Sante Fe, New Mexcio, United States, February 16th - May 20th.
    • ARCO '12, Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain, February 15th - February 19th.

    2011

    2010

    2009

    • "Art & Electronic Media" (curated by: Edward Shanken), bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
    • "Being in the World" (curated by: Berta Sichel), The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation in Miami, Miami, Florida, United States.
    • "Decode, digital design sensations" (curated by: Louise Shannon and Ligaya Salazar), Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom.
    • "Emergentes" (curated by: José-Carlos Mariategui), Telefónica, Santiago, Chile.
    • "Enter Action-Digital Art Now" (curated by: Gitte Orskou, Anne Sophie Lossing, Pernille Taagaard Dinesen and Anne Sophie Witzke), ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark.
    • "Extra-Muros" (curated by: Alain Mongeau), Mutek Festival 10th anniversary, Red light district, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
    • "Hundred Stories about Love" (curated by: Chieko Kitade), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.
    • "Inpoliticos" (curated by: Laura Bardier), Palazzo Art Napoli, Naples, Italy.
    • "Open Space" (curated by: Yukiko Shikata), NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo, Japan.
    • "Pulse Art Fair", bitforms gallery, Miami, Florida, United States.
    • "Socially Active" (curated by: Rachael Baum, Vivian So Hyun Choi, Helena Copsey, Sue-Na Gay, Grace Zihua Lu and Sara Taylor), University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom.
    • "The World is Yours" (curated by: Anders Kold), Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark.
    • "Un Mundo Feliz" (curated by: Rewell Altunaga), 10th Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba.
    • "YOU_ser_: Das Jarhundert des Konsumenten" (curated by: Peter Weibel), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany.
    • ARCO '09, Haunch of Venison, Madrid, Spain.
    • Armory Show, OMR Gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
    • Conjugaciones: Arte Contemporáneo Latinoamericano en la Colección FEMSA (curated by: Miriam Kaiser), Museo de los pintores Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca, México.
    • "5 Solos", Galería OMR, Mexico City, México.
    • "White Tie & Tiara Charity Ball", Elton John AIDS Foundation, London, United Kingdom.

    2008

    • Haunch of Venison Gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
    • "Asedio" (curated by: José Luis Barrios), Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, México.
    • "Emergentes" (curated by: José-Carlos Mariategui), Centro Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru.
    • "Emergentes" (curated by: José-Carlos Mariategui), Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
    • "Fortunate Objects" (curated by: Cecilia Fajardo Hill), The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation in Miami, Miami, Florida, United States.
    • "In Memoriam Albert Hofmann" (curated by: Michel Blancsubé), Laberinto de la Ciencia y Las Artes, Jumex Collection, San Luis Potosi, México.
    • "Intruders" (curated by: Mélanie Boucher), Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City, Québec, Canada.
    • "LOOP '08", Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Catalonia Ramblas Hotel, Barcelona, Spain.
    • "Maquinas y Almas - Souls and Machines" (curated by: Montxo Algora and Jose Luis de Vicente), Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.
    • "No es Neutral" (curated by: Felicitas Rausch), La Tabakalera, International Contemporary Culture Centre, San Sebastiàn, Spain.
    • "Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence" (curated by: José Roca), Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas, United States.
    • "Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence" (curated by: José Roca), Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States.
    • "Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence" (curated by: José Roca), The John and Marbe Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, United States.
    • "Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence" (curated by: José Roca), McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.
    • "Prospect.1, New Orleans Bienniale" (curated by: Dan Cameron), NOMA Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
    • "Pulse Miami", biforms gallery, Miami, Florida, United States.
    • "Synthetic Times - Media Art China, A Beijing Olympics Cultural Project" (curated by: Zhang Ga), National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China.
    • "The Art of Participation: 1950 to now" (curated by: Rudolf Frieling), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, United States.
    • "The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space" (curated by: Peter Gorschlüter, Lindsey Fryer and the people of Liverpool), Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
    • "The Prisoner's Dilemma" (curated by: Leanne Mella), The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation in Miami, Miami, Florida, United States.
    • "Turn and Widen, 5th Seoul International Media Art Bienniale" (curated by: Raul Zamudio), Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.
    • "YOUniverse, 3rd International Bienniale of Contemporary Art" (curated by: Peter Weibel, Marie-Ange Brayer and Wonil Rhee), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.
    • Art Basel 39, OMR Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
    • Art Forum, Gallerie Guy Bärtschi, Berlin, Germany.
    • "New Zealand Festival", Te Papa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand.

    2007

    • Art Basel Miami, OMR Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States, December.
    • "E-art" (curated by: Jean Gagnon), Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, September 20th - December 9th.
    • The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Florida, Miami, United States.
    • "Art Basel Unlimited" - Art 38 Basel Fair, OMR Gallery, Guy Bärtschi and bitforms gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
    • "Auto Emotion" (curated by: Gregory Burke), Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
    • "Automatic Update" (curated by: Barbara London), Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York, United States.
    • "Emergentes" (curated by: José-Carlos Mariategui), The Laboral Art Center, Gijón, Spain.
    • "Floating Artworks" (curated by: Bruce Ferguson), TD Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
    • "Lines of Flight" (curated by: Celina Jeffrey), LEF-CAAC, Hunter College, New York City, New York, United States.
    • "Phantasmagoria, Specters of Absence" (curated by: José Roca), ICI, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia.
    • ARCO '07, bitforms gallery, Madrid, Spain.
    • ARCO '07, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Madrid, Spain.
    • ARCO '07, OMR Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
    • Art 38 Basel Fair, OMR Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
    • "Collective One", Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland.
    • "Huge", Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
    • Art Brussels, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Brussels, Belgium.
    • Artefiera , Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Bologna, Italy.
    • LA Art Chelsea, OMR Gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
    • Pulse Fair, bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States.

    2006

    • "Caleidoscopios" (curated by: Gustavo Romano), Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
    • "Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art" (curated by: Cecilia Fajardo-Hill), The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation in Miami, Miami, Florida, United States.
    • "Plataforma" (curated by: Priamo Lozada), Fábrica La Constancia, Puebla, México.
    • "Pre-Emptive" (curated by: Philippe Pirotte), Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
    • "Scrabble" (curated by: Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya), Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Spain.
    • "Zones of Contact" (curated by: Charles Merewhether), Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
    • ARCO '06, bitforms gallery, Madrid, Spain.
    • ARCO '06, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Madrid, Spain.
    • ARCO '06, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
    • Art 37 Basel Fair, OMR Gallery, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, bitforms gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
    • Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong, China.
    • "Electrohype", Malmö, Sweden.
    • "Levinas: Ethics of Encounter", McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
    • "Only the Paranoid Survive", HVCCA, Peekskill, New York, United States.
    • Armory Show, OMR Gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
    • FIAC, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Paris, France.
    • Toronto Art Fair, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
    • Volta, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Basel, Switzerland.

    2005

    • Art Basel Miami, OMR Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States, December.
    • Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland, November.
    • "Dataspace" (curated by: Priamo Lozada), Laboratorio Alameda, Mexico City, México, February - March.
    • "Art Meets Media" (curated by: Yukiko Shikata and Fumihiko Sumitomo), NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo, Japan, January - March.
    • bitforms Seoul, Seoul, South Korea.
    • The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, Florida, United States.
    • Centro cultural de España, Mexico City, México.
    • "Algorithmic Revolution" (curated by: Peter Weibel), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany - 2005.
    • "ARCO Black Box" (curated by: Mark Tribe), bitforms gallery, Madrid, Spain.
    • "Art Basel Unlimited" - Art 36 Basel Fair, OMR Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
    • "Salón Bancomer" (curated by: José Luis Barrios, José Springer and Sylvia Navarrete), Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, México.
    • ARCO '05, OMR Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
    • Art 36 Basel Fair, OMR Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
    • MUSAC (curated by: Agustín Perez Rubio and Rafael Doctor), León, Spain.
    • "In the Line of Flight", Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
    • Art Brussels, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Brussels, Belgium.
    • Art Cologne, Galería Metropolitana, Cologne, Germany.
    • Dataspace Exhibition, Conde Duque Art Center, Madrid, Spain.
    • Elektra Festival, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
    • FIAC, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Paris, France.

    2004

    • Art Basel Miami, OMR Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States, December.
    • "Techniques of the Visible" (curated by: Xu Jiang, Sebastián López, Shengtian Zheng and Zhang Qing), Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China, October - November.
    • "Navigator exhibition" (curated by: Jun-Jieh Wang), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, July - August.
    • Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), Montréal, Québec, Canada.
    • ARCO '04, OMR Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
    • LA MOCA (Digital Gallery) (curated by: Alma Ruiz), Los Angeles, California, United States.
    • "LOOP", Galería Metropolitana, Barcelona, Spain.
    • Art Basel 35, Galería OMR, Basel, Switzerland.
    • Art Cologne, bitforms gallery, Cologne, Germany.

    2003

    • Art Basel Miami, OMR Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States, December.
    • "Critical Conditions" (curated by: Tim Druckrey), Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
    • "Ill Communication" (curated by: Rob Tufnell), Dundee Contemporary Art, Dundee, United Kingdom.
    • "Paris Photo" (curated by: Daniela Franco), Statement Project Room, Paris, France.
    • "Radiant City Exhibition" (curated by: Achille Bonito Oliva), Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, Spain.
    • "Open" New Designs for Open Space, Van Alen Institute, New York City, New York, United States.

    2002

    • "Cibervisión 2" (curated by: Karin Ohlenschläger), Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain.
    • "Egofugal" (curated by: Yuko Hasegawa), 7th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey.
    • "Emoçao Art.ficial", Itau Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
    • "Resonancias", Observatori, Valencia, Spain.
    • 6th International Festival for Architecture in Video, Florence, Italy.
    • Ars Electronica Festival, OK Centrum, Linz, Austria.
    • E-phos Festival, Athens, Greece.
    • Sapphire '02, Atlantico Pavillion, Lisbon, Portugal.

    2001

    2000

    1999

    • "Medienkunstpreis 2000", ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
    • Art Futura Festival, Sevilla, Spain.
    • Interactive Urban Landscapes, Copenhagen, Denmark.

    1998

    • "Image architettura in movimento", Torino, Italy.
    • "Lo Mejor de los dos Mundos", Cuenca, Italy.
    • Festival de Video de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
    • Viper '98 webart selection, Lucerne, Switzerland.

    1997

    • "Arte Virtual, Realidad Plural", Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, México, November - January 1998.
    • "Remote Sensations", Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria.
    • Festival Internacional de Info-arquitectura, MOPU, Madrid, Spain.

    1996

    1995

    1993

    • Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Nuremberg, Germany.
    • ARCO '93, Madrid, Spain.
    • "En-red-arte", Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain.
    • "Tomorrow's Realities", SIGGRAPH'93, Anaheim, California, United States.
    • 2!M VR Exhibition, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

    1990

    • "The Dancers Answer Questions", Banff National Park, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
    • Residencies / Workshops

      • HUMO workshop, Interfacing realities master class, AEC Linz, Austria, February 2003.
      • Karlstad University, Sweden, March 2000.
      • SAGAs writing interactive fiction, Munich, Germany, November 1999.
      • Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, México City, November 1994.
      • Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, January-June 1993.
      • Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May-November 1990.

      Lectures / Presentations

      2011

      2010

      • Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Théâtre Paul Desmarais, Montréal, Québec, Canada, December 9th.
      • Keynote, CHIN Digital Heritage Symposium, Vancouver, British-Columbia, Canada.
      • Keynote, ON.Fire National Media Arts Conference, CBC Glenn Gould studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
      • ACMI, Melbourne, Australia.
      • Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C., United States.
      • CCA , Montréal, Québec, Canada.
      • FPAA , Philadelphia, Pensylvania, United States.
      • USC, Los Angeles, California, United States.
      • Whitworth Gallery , Manchester, United Kingdom.

      2009

      2008

      2007

      2006

      2005

      2004

      2003

      2002

      2001

      2000

      1999

      • Consejo de la artes de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, México.

      1998

      1997

      • Keynote, IATM conference, Palacio de Correos, Madrid, Spain.
      • "Conocimiento del Arte", Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid, Spain.
      • In Art 97, Tenerife, Spain.
      • Jornadas El Objeto Inmaterial, Trasforma, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
      • Seminari.

      1996

      • Seminario Ciberarte, Fundación CAM, Alicante, Valencia y Murcia, Spain.
      • ARCO '96, Madrid, Spain.
      • Festival Sonar '96, Barcelona, Spain.
      • In Art '96 , Tenerife, Spain.
      • Milia '96, Cannes, France.
      • Seminario de Paul Hertz, Valencia, Spain.

      1995

      1994

      1993

      • ARCO '93, Madrid, Spain.
      • Canadian Studies Association, Pamplona, Spain.
      • Communications Department, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
      • Department of Design, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

      1992

      • Oboro Gallery, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
      • Ontario College of Art & Design, Media Arts Department, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
      • School of Social and Political Science, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
      • Performance Art

        • 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan 2009.

        Technological Contemporary Dance with Transition State Theory:

        • X'Teresa Arte Alternativo, Mexico City, México, November 1994.
        • Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Nuremberg, Germany, November 1993.
        • SIGGRAPH '93 Festival, Anaheim, California, United States, August 1993.
        • Circulo de Bellas Artes, Sala de Columnas, Madrid, Spain, June 1993.

        Performances with Dick Higgins:

        • Storm Riders hörspiel, Danish State Radio, October 1992.
        • Several short Fluxus pieces, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 1990.
        • The City that Could performance, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 1990.

        Technological Theatres with PoMo CoMo:

        • Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, June 1992.
        • Experimental Intermedia, New York City, New York, United States, December 1991.
        • Festival Les 20 jours du théâtre à risque, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Canada, November 1991.
        • Artscourt, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, November 1991.
        • Le Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, October 1990.
        • Hallwalls Gallery Vault, Buffalo, New York, United States, May 1990.
        • The Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 1990.
        • Articule Gallery, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 1988.
        • Learneds Conferences, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada, May 1988.
        • Strategies of Critique, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 1988.

        Radio & Radio Art

        • "Read my Blips" electroacoustic music piece, International Radio Conference, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 1991.
        • "Hysterical Male" radio art piece, AccompaNew Yorking the book of the same name by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker. St. Martin's Press, New York City, New York, United States, December 1990.
        • Radio Art Exhibition, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 1990.
        • Radia 89.9FM, Radio station manager, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May-November 1990.
        • Printemps Electroacoustique, CBC Radio, Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 1990.
        • New World Perspectives, Montréal, Québec, Canada, August 1989.
        • Co-host and producer of "The Postmodern Commotion" a weekly radio program, CKUT 90.3 FM, Montréal, Québec, Canada 1987.
        • "Becoming Nobody" electroacoustic music piece.
        • "Panic Encyclopedia Cassette" co-creator with Arthur and Marilouise Kroker.

        Collections

        • 21st Century Museum of contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.
        • Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
        • Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida, United States.
        • Colección de Arte de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
        • Daros Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland.
        • FRAC Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France.
        • Jumex Collection, Mexico City, México.
        • Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, Canada.
        • MUAC, Mexico City, México City.
        • Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
        • MUSAC, León, Spain.
        • Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York, United States.
        • Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Australia.
        • Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, Singapore.
        • Tate Collection, London, United Kingdom.
        • Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany.

        Grants & Awards

        • 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.

        Others

        • "5Cyberconf", sponsored by the Art and Technology Foundation, Madrid, Spain, June 1996.
        • Chair and co-organizer, 5th International Conference on Cyberspace 1996.
        • Co-creator and organizer, "Life x.0" International art and a-life competition, sponsored by the Telefónica Foundation, Madrid, Spain 1998 - (ongoing).
        • Curator, "Arte Virtual, 12 Propuestas de Arte Reactivo", Madrid, Spain, May 1994.
        • Grand Jury, Prix Milia d'Or, Cannes, France, January 1995.
        • International Advisory Committee, Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) (ongoing).
        • International Committe, Living in Mixed Realities, GMD conference, Bonn, Germany 2001.
        • International Patent for "System for 3D tracking of a remote point" with Will Bauer - WIPO #9814798A1, January 1998.
        • Jury member, Leonardo Artnodes, Barcelona, Spain 2005.
        • Jury member, Transitios_MX festival, Mexico City, México 2005.
        • Jury member, Fusedspace competition, Netherlands 2004.
        • Jury member, Latinamerican Experimental Hypermedia Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2003.
        • Jury member, Video ARCO '93, Madrid, Spain, February 1993.
        • Research and Creativity Committee, Hexagram, Montréal, Québec, Canada 2003.

Solo Exhibitions

2012

2011

2010

2009

  • "Pulse Glow", Pulse Glow Festival, City Hall, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
  • "Recent works", Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • "Transition States", Haunch of Venison Gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
  • Levels of Nothingness, Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York, United States. Commissioned by Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum, celebrating its 25th anniversary together with the Museum's 50th anniversary. Funded by the Colección/Fundación Jumex, Deutsche Bank, German Consulate General and Mexican Cultural Institute.

2008

2007

  • "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", bitforms Gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
  • "Some Things Happen More Often Than All Of The Time" (curated by: Príamo Lozada and Bárbara Perea), Mexican Pavilion, 52 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
  • Pulse Front (curated by: Gregory Burke from Power Plant), Power Plant, Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Public art installation commissioned by and premiered at LuminaTO and co-produced with Harbourfront Centre.

2006

  • Under scan, East Midlands Development Agency, Castle Wharf, Nottingham, United Kingdom, March. Public art commission.
  • Under scan, East Midlands Development Agency, Market Square, Derby, United Kingdom, February - March. Public art commission.
  • Under scan, East Midlands Development Agency, Humberstone Gate West, Leicester, United Kingdom, January. Public art commission.
  • "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
  • Body Movies, Museum of Art, HK Arts Development Council, Hong Kong, China.

2005

2004

  • "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", OMR Gallery, Mexico City, México, November - December.
  • Vectorial Elevation, celebrations of Europe expansion, O'Connell Street, Dublin, Ireland.

2003

  • "Relational Architectures" (curated by: Priamo Lozada), Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, México, May - June.
  • Amodal Suspension, opening project of the Yamaguchi Center for Art and Media, Yamaguchi, Japan. Access Pods and terminals for the piece were installed at: MACBA in Barcelona, MARS Lab in Bonn, C3 in Budapest, Fundación Telefónica in Buenos Aires, MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Bauhaus in Dessau, IAMAS in Ogaki, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Kyoto Art Center in Kyoto, FACT in Liverpool, Science Museum in London, Ojo Atómico in Madrid, Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, SAT in Montréal, Sarai in New Delhi, Eyebeam in New York City, Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh, V2_Organisatie in Rotterdam, Itaú Cultural Center in São Paulo, Sendai Mediatheque in Sendai, Art Center Nabi in Seoul, NTT-ICC in Tokyo, MeSci in Tokyo, Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, Emily Carr in Vancouver, WRO Center in Wroclaw and Multimedia Institute in Zagreb.
  • Body Movies, Duisburg Akzente, Duisburg, Germany.
  • Vectorial Elevation (curated by: Claire Peillod), Fête des Lumières, Place Bellecour, Lyon, France.
  • "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States.

2002

2001

  • Airport Cluster (curated by: Pat Binder), Foto/Graphik Galerie Käethe Kollwitz, Berlin, Germany.
  • Body Movies (curated by: Alex Adriaansens and Andreas Broeckmann), Cultural Capital of Europe Festival, V2 Grounding, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

1999

1997

  • Re:Positioning Fear (curated by: Charlotte Pöchacker), 3rd Internationale Biennale Film +Architektur, Graz, Austria.

1992

  • "On the Same Hand but in a Different Vein", Galerie Stornaway, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Group Exhibitions

2012

  • Field Conditions (curated by: Joseph Becker), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, United States, September 1st - January 1st 2013.
  • Transverso: Instalaciones y nuevos medios en Iberoamérica (curated by: José Manuel Noceda and Orlando Britto), Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain, September - October.
  • Contentious Borderlines (curated by: Xandra Eden), Weatherspoon Art Museum Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States, June 1st - September 1st.
  • The Eleventh Bienal de la Habana (curated by: Ibis Hernández), Havana, Cuba, May 11th - June 11th.
  • "Time-Lapse" (curated by: Irene Hofmann), Site Santa Fe, Sante Fe, New Mexcio, United States, February 16th - May 20th.
  • ARCO '12, Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain, February 15th - February 19th.

2011

2010

2009

  • "Art & Electronic Media" (curated by: Edward Shanken), bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
  • "Being in the World" (curated by: Berta Sichel), The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation in Miami, Miami, Florida, United States.
  • "Decode, digital design sensations" (curated by: Louise Shannon and Ligaya Salazar), Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • "Emergentes" (curated by: José-Carlos Mariategui), Telefónica, Santiago, Chile.
  • "Enter Action-Digital Art Now" (curated by: Gitte Orskou, Anne Sophie Lossing, Pernille Taagaard Dinesen and Anne Sophie Witzke), ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark.
  • "Extra-Muros" (curated by: Alain Mongeau), Mutek Festival 10th anniversary, Red light district, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
  • "Hundred Stories about Love" (curated by: Chieko Kitade), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.
  • "Inpoliticos" (curated by: Laura Bardier), Palazzo Art Napoli, Naples, Italy.
  • "Open Space" (curated by: Yukiko Shikata), NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo, Japan.
  • "Pulse Art Fair", bitforms gallery, Miami, Florida, United States.
  • "Socially Active" (curated by: Rachael Baum, Vivian So Hyun Choi, Helena Copsey, Sue-Na Gay, Grace Zihua Lu and Sara Taylor), University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom.
  • "The World is Yours" (curated by: Anders Kold), Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • "Un Mundo Feliz" (curated by: Rewell Altunaga), 10th Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba.
  • "YOU_ser_: Das Jarhundert des Konsumenten" (curated by: Peter Weibel), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • ARCO '09, Haunch of Venison, Madrid, Spain.
  • Armory Show, OMR Gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
  • Conjugaciones: Arte Contemporáneo Latinoamericano en la Colección FEMSA (curated by: Miriam Kaiser), Museo de los pintores Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca, México.
  • "5 Solos", Galería OMR, Mexico City, México.
  • "White Tie & Tiara Charity Ball", Elton John AIDS Foundation, London, United Kingdom.

2008

  • Haunch of Venison Gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
  • "Asedio" (curated by: José Luis Barrios), Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, México.
  • "Emergentes" (curated by: José-Carlos Mariategui), Centro Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru.
  • "Emergentes" (curated by: José-Carlos Mariategui), Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • "Fortunate Objects" (curated by: Cecilia Fajardo Hill), The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation in Miami, Miami, Florida, United States.
  • "In Memoriam Albert Hofmann" (curated by: Michel Blancsubé), Laberinto de la Ciencia y Las Artes, Jumex Collection, San Luis Potosi, México.
  • "Intruders" (curated by: Mélanie Boucher), Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City, Québec, Canada.
  • "LOOP '08", Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Catalonia Ramblas Hotel, Barcelona, Spain.
  • "Maquinas y Almas - Souls and Machines" (curated by: Montxo Algora and Jose Luis de Vicente), Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.
  • "No es Neutral" (curated by: Felicitas Rausch), La Tabakalera, International Contemporary Culture Centre, San Sebastiàn, Spain.
  • "Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence" (curated by: José Roca), Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas, United States.
  • "Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence" (curated by: José Roca), Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States.
  • "Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence" (curated by: José Roca), The John and Marbe Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, United States.
  • "Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence" (curated by: José Roca), McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.
  • "Prospect.1, New Orleans Bienniale" (curated by: Dan Cameron), NOMA Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
  • "Pulse Miami", biforms gallery, Miami, Florida, United States.
  • "Synthetic Times - Media Art China, A Beijing Olympics Cultural Project" (curated by: Zhang Ga), National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China.
  • "The Art of Participation: 1950 to now" (curated by: Rudolf Frieling), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, United States.
  • "The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space" (curated by: Peter Gorschlüter, Lindsey Fryer and the people of Liverpool), Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
  • "The Prisoner's Dilemma" (curated by: Leanne Mella), The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation in Miami, Miami, Florida, United States.
  • "Turn and Widen, 5th Seoul International Media Art Bienniale" (curated by: Raul Zamudio), Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.
  • "YOUniverse, 3rd International Bienniale of Contemporary Art" (curated by: Peter Weibel, Marie-Ange Brayer and Wonil Rhee), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.
  • Art Basel 39, OMR Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Art Forum, Gallerie Guy Bärtschi, Berlin, Germany.
  • "New Zealand Festival", Te Papa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand.

2007

  • Art Basel Miami, OMR Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States, December.
  • "E-art" (curated by: Jean Gagnon), Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, September 20th - December 9th.
  • The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Florida, Miami, United States.
  • "Art Basel Unlimited" - Art 38 Basel Fair, OMR Gallery, Guy Bärtschi and bitforms gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
  • "Auto Emotion" (curated by: Gregory Burke), Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • "Automatic Update" (curated by: Barbara London), Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York, United States.
  • "Emergentes" (curated by: José-Carlos Mariategui), The Laboral Art Center, Gijón, Spain.
  • "Floating Artworks" (curated by: Bruce Ferguson), TD Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • "Lines of Flight" (curated by: Celina Jeffrey), LEF-CAAC, Hunter College, New York City, New York, United States.
  • "Phantasmagoria, Specters of Absence" (curated by: José Roca), ICI, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • ARCO '07, bitforms gallery, Madrid, Spain.
  • ARCO '07, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Madrid, Spain.
  • ARCO '07, OMR Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
  • Art 38 Basel Fair, OMR Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
  • "Collective One", Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • "Huge", Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • Art Brussels, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Artefiera , Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Bologna, Italy.
  • LA Art Chelsea, OMR Gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
  • Pulse Fair, bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States.

2006

  • "Caleidoscopios" (curated by: Gustavo Romano), Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • "Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art" (curated by: Cecilia Fajardo-Hill), The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation in Miami, Miami, Florida, United States.
  • "Plataforma" (curated by: Priamo Lozada), Fábrica La Constancia, Puebla, México.
  • "Pre-Emptive" (curated by: Philippe Pirotte), Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
  • "Scrabble" (curated by: Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya), Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Spain.
  • "Zones of Contact" (curated by: Charles Merewhether), Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
  • ARCO '06, bitforms gallery, Madrid, Spain.
  • ARCO '06, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Madrid, Spain.
  • ARCO '06, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
  • Art 37 Basel Fair, OMR Gallery, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, bitforms gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong, China.
  • "Electrohype", Malmö, Sweden.
  • "Levinas: Ethics of Encounter", McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
  • "Only the Paranoid Survive", HVCCA, Peekskill, New York, United States.
  • Armory Show, OMR Gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
  • FIAC, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Paris, France.
  • Toronto Art Fair, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • Volta, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Basel, Switzerland.

2005

  • Art Basel Miami, OMR Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States, December.
  • Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland, November.
  • "Dataspace" (curated by: Priamo Lozada), Laboratorio Alameda, Mexico City, México, February - March.
  • "Art Meets Media" (curated by: Yukiko Shikata and Fumihiko Sumitomo), NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo, Japan, January - March.
  • bitforms Seoul, Seoul, South Korea.
  • The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, Florida, United States.
  • Centro cultural de España, Mexico City, México.
  • "Algorithmic Revolution" (curated by: Peter Weibel), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany - 2005.
  • "ARCO Black Box" (curated by: Mark Tribe), bitforms gallery, Madrid, Spain.
  • "Art Basel Unlimited" - Art 36 Basel Fair, OMR Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
  • "Salón Bancomer" (curated by: José Luis Barrios, José Springer and Sylvia Navarrete), Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, México.
  • ARCO '05, OMR Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
  • Art 36 Basel Fair, OMR Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
  • MUSAC (curated by: Agustín Perez Rubio and Rafael Doctor), León, Spain.
  • "In the Line of Flight", Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
  • Art Brussels, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Art Cologne, Galería Metropolitana, Cologne, Germany.
  • Dataspace Exhibition, Conde Duque Art Center, Madrid, Spain.
  • Elektra Festival, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
  • FIAC, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Paris, France.

2004

  • Art Basel Miami, OMR Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States, December.
  • "Techniques of the Visible" (curated by: Xu Jiang, Sebastián López, Shengtian Zheng and Zhang Qing), Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China, October - November.
  • "Navigator exhibition" (curated by: Jun-Jieh Wang), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, July - August.
  • Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), Montréal, Québec, Canada.
  • ARCO '04, OMR Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
  • LA MOCA (Digital Gallery) (curated by: Alma Ruiz), Los Angeles, California, United States.
  • "LOOP", Galería Metropolitana, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Art Basel 35, Galería OMR, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Art Cologne, bitforms gallery, Cologne, Germany.

2003

  • Art Basel Miami, OMR Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States, December.
  • "Critical Conditions" (curated by: Tim Druckrey), Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
  • "Ill Communication" (curated by: Rob Tufnell), Dundee Contemporary Art, Dundee, United Kingdom.
  • "Paris Photo" (curated by: Daniela Franco), Statement Project Room, Paris, France.
  • "Radiant City Exhibition" (curated by: Achille Bonito Oliva), Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, Spain.
  • "Open" New Designs for Open Space, Van Alen Institute, New York City, New York, United States.

2002

  • "Cibervisión 2" (curated by: Karin Ohlenschläger), Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain.
  • "Egofugal" (curated by: Yuko Hasegawa), 7th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • "Emoçao Art.ficial", Itau Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • "Resonancias", Observatori, Valencia, Spain.
  • 6th International Festival for Architecture in Video, Florence, Italy.
  • Ars Electronica Festival, OK Centrum, Linz, Austria.
  • E-phos Festival, Athens, Greece.
  • Sapphire '02, Atlantico Pavillion, Lisbon, Portugal.

2001

2000

1999

  • "Medienkunstpreis 2000", ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • Art Futura Festival, Sevilla, Spain.
  • Interactive Urban Landscapes, Copenhagen, Denmark.

1998

  • "Image architettura in movimento", Torino, Italy.
  • "Lo Mejor de los dos Mundos", Cuenca, Italy.
  • Festival de Video de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
  • Viper '98 webart selection, Lucerne, Switzerland.

1997

  • "Arte Virtual, Realidad Plural", Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, México, November - January 1998.
  • "Remote Sensations", Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria.
  • Festival Internacional de Info-arquitectura, MOPU, Madrid, Spain.

1996

1995

1993

  • Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Nuremberg, Germany.
  • ARCO '93, Madrid, Spain.
  • "En-red-arte", Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain.
  • "Tomorrow's Realities", SIGGRAPH'93, Anaheim, California, United States.
  • 2!M VR Exhibition, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

1990

Residencies / Workshops

  • HUMO workshop, Interfacing realities master class, AEC Linz, Austria, February 2003.
  • Karlstad University, Sweden, March 2000.
  • SAGAs writing interactive fiction, Munich, Germany, November 1999.
  • Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, México City, November 1994.
  • Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, January-June 1993.
  • Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May-November 1990.

Lectures / Presentations

2011

2010

  • Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Théâtre Paul Desmarais, Montréal, Québec, Canada, December 9th.
  • Keynote, CHIN Digital Heritage Symposium, Vancouver, British-Columbia, Canada.
  • Keynote, ON.Fire National Media Arts Conference, CBC Glenn Gould studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • ACMI, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C., United States.
  • CCA , Montréal, Québec, Canada.
  • FPAA , Philadelphia, Pensylvania, United States.
  • USC, Los Angeles, California, United States.
  • Whitworth Gallery , Manchester, United Kingdom.

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

  • Consejo de la artes de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, México.

1998

1997

  • Keynote, IATM conference, Palacio de Correos, Madrid, Spain.
  • "Conocimiento del Arte", Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid, Spain.
  • In Art 97, Tenerife, Spain.
  • Jornadas El Objeto Inmaterial, Trasforma, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
  • Seminari.

1996

  • Seminario Ciberarte, Fundación CAM, Alicante, Valencia y Murcia, Spain.
  • ARCO '96, Madrid, Spain.
  • Festival Sonar '96, Barcelona, Spain.
  • In Art '96 , Tenerife, Spain.
  • Milia '96, Cannes, France.
  • Seminario de Paul Hertz, Valencia, Spain.

1995

1994

1993

  • ARCO '93, Madrid, Spain.
  • Canadian Studies Association, Pamplona, Spain.
  • Communications Department, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
  • Department of Design, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

1992

Performance Art

  • 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan 2009.

Technological Contemporary Dance with Transition State Theory:

  • X'Teresa Arte Alternativo, Mexico City, México, November 1994.
  • Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Nuremberg, Germany, November 1993.
  • SIGGRAPH '93 Festival, Anaheim, California, United States, August 1993.
  • Circulo de Bellas Artes, Sala de Columnas, Madrid, Spain, June 1993.

Performances with Dick Higgins:

  • Storm Riders hörspiel, Danish State Radio, October 1992.
  • Several short Fluxus pieces, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 1990.
  • The City that Could performance, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 1990.

Technological Theatres with PoMo CoMo:

  • Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, June 1992.
  • Experimental Intermedia, New York City, New York, United States, December 1991.
  • Festival Les 20 jours du théâtre à risque, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Canada, November 1991.
  • Artscourt, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, November 1991.
  • Le Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, October 1990.
  • Hallwalls Gallery Vault, Buffalo, New York, United States, May 1990.
  • The Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 1990.
  • Articule Gallery, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 1988.
  • Learneds Conferences, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada, May 1988.
  • Strategies of Critique, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 1988.

Radio & Radio Art

  • "Read my Blips" electroacoustic music piece, International Radio Conference, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 1991.
  • "Hysterical Male" radio art piece, AccompaNew Yorking the book of the same name by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker. St. Martin's Press, New York City, New York, United States, December 1990.
  • Radio Art Exhibition, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 1990.
  • Radia 89.9FM, Radio station manager, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May-November 1990.
  • Printemps Electroacoustique, CBC Radio, Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 1990.
  • New World Perspectives, Montréal, Québec, Canada, August 1989.
  • Co-host and producer of "The Postmodern Commotion" a weekly radio program, CKUT 90.3 FM, Montréal, Québec, Canada 1987.
  • "Becoming Nobody" electroacoustic music piece.
  • "Panic Encyclopedia Cassette" co-creator with Arthur and Marilouise Kroker.

Grants & Awards

  • 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.

Collections

  • 21st Century Museum of contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.
  • Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida, United States.
  • Colección de Arte de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
  • Daros Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland.
  • FRAC Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France.
  • Jumex Collection, Mexico City, México.
  • Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, Canada.
  • MUAC, Mexico City, México City.
  • Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
  • MUSAC, León, Spain.
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York, United States.
  • Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Australia.
  • Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, Singapore.
  • Tate Collection, London, United Kingdom.
  • Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Others

  • "5Cyberconf", sponsored by the Art and Technology Foundation, Madrid, Spain, June 1996.
  • Chair and co-organizer, 5th International Conference on Cyberspace 1996.
  • Co-creator and organizer, "Life x.0" International art and a-life competition, sponsored by the Telefónica Foundation, Madrid, Spain 1998 - (ongoing).
  • Curator, "Arte Virtual, 12 Propuestas de Arte Reactivo", Madrid, Spain, May 1994.
  • Grand Jury, Prix Milia d'Or, Cannes, France, January 1995.
  • International Advisory Committee, Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) (ongoing).
  • International Committe, Living in Mixed Realities, GMD conference, Bonn, Germany 2001.
  • International Patent for "System for 3D tracking of a remote point" with Will Bauer - WIPO #9814798A1, January 1998.
  • Jury member, Leonardo Artnodes, Barcelona, Spain 2005.
  • Jury member, Transitios_MX festival, Mexico City, México 2005.
  • Jury member, Fusedspace competition, Netherlands 2004.
  • Jury member, Latinamerican Experimental Hypermedia Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2003.
  • Jury member, Video ARCO '93, Madrid, Spain, February 1993.
  • Research and Creativity Committee, Hexagram, Montréal, Québec, Canada 2003.