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Description
Amodal Suspension is a large-scale
interactive installation where people can send short
text messages to each other using a cell phone or
web browser. However, rather than being sent directly,
the messages are encoded as unique sequences of flashes
with twenty robotically-controlled searchlights,
not unlike the patterns that make up Morse code.
Messages “bounce” around from searchlight
to searchlight, turning the sky into a giant switchboard.
A message may be “caught” with a cell
phone or a 3D Internet interface, at which time it
is removed from the sky, shown on the cell phone
or online interface and projected on the façade
of the museum.
This work was inspired
by the Tanabata tradition in Japan whereby short
messages are ritually hung on bamboo. One objective
of the piece was to make a public spectacle by using
the private medium of text messaging, slowing down
communication and introducing the possibility of
interception.
The piece was active between the 1st and the 24th of November 2003.
Online projec t: www.amodal.net
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Year of creation
2003
Technique
Twenty 7kW robotic searchlights, eight webcams, projectors, Linux servers, GPS
and 3D DMX Java interface.
Dimensions
Visibility within a 15 km radius.
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Exhibitions
• Yamaguchi Center for Art and Media, Yamaguchi
2003
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Access Pods in 27 art centers in 15 countries:
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.
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, "Amodal Suspension" (2003). Yamaguchi, Japan.
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Photos
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, "Amodal Suspension" (2003). Yamaguchi, Japan. Photos by ArchiBIMing.
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Bibliography
Bosco,
Roberta and Caldana, Stefano. "Los
rayos luminosos de Lozano-Hemmer, en Japón", El País (Madrid), no. 291, Thursday, October 30, 2003, p. 11. (español)
Daniell, Thomas. "Exposure Time – two media art installations", Archis, no. 1, 2004, p. 101-107. (english)
Karino, Ayako. "Transforming light rays into e-mail messages. An award-winning multinational artist provokes tantalizing questions with light and electrons", International Herald Tribune, Saturday-Sunday, October 18-19, 2003, p. 29. (english)
Massumi, Brian. "Flash in Japan – Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Amodal Suspension", Artforum, vol. XLII, no. 3, November 2003, p. 37-40. (english)
Mirapaul, Matthew. "Electronic Messages Become A Beacon In the Darkness", The New York Times, Thursday, November 6, 2003. (english)
Shikata, Yukiko. "Amodal Suspension", BT, vol. 56, no. 843, 2004, p. 138-139. (japanese)
Tetsuya, Ozaki. "Amodal Suspension – relational architecture 8" in ANY – Ars Nova Yamaguchi, vol. 42, November / December 2003, p. 1-2. (japanese)
Ting Lipton, Shana. "Called of the wired: WI-FI Art Is All The Buzz", RES Magazine – summer escape/ travel issue, vol. 7, no. 3, May/June 2004, p. 60-61. (english)
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Yukiko Shikata — project curator
Kazunao Abe — curator
Conroy Badger, Motoi Ishibashi, Jennifer Laughlin, Emilio López-Galiacho, Shiro Yamamoto and Chong Zhang — programming
Miki Fukuda — project manager
Shiro Yamamoto — technical manager
Will Bauer, Jack Calmes, Olaf Pöttcher, Hiroshi Kanechiku, Yumico Cotaki, Chiaki Sakaguchi, Daiya Aida, Rie Yamasaki and Katsuhisa Nomura — production support
Shosuke Fukuda — YCAM Director
Commissioned for the opening of the Yamaguchi Centre of Art and Media (YCAM) in Japan.
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