Blow Up
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Description
Blow-up is a high resolution interactive display that is designed to fragment a surveillance camera view into 2400 virtual cameras that zoom into the exhibition space in fluid and autonomous motion. Inspired by Antonioni, the piece is intended as a an exercise to underline the construction of presence through a simulated, live compound eye.

The piece exists in a shadow box format and as a large installation.


Year of creation
2007
Technique
High resolution interactive display with built-in computerized surveillance system.
Dimensions
Shadow box 104.5 x 80 x 12 cm.
Installation variable

Manual

Exhibitions

• "Turn and Widen, 5th Seoul International Media Art Bienniale" (co-curator: Raul Zamudio), Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea, 2008.
• Grazyna Kulczyk Foundation, blow-up hall hotel, permanent installation 2008
• Art Basel Miami Beach, OMR Gallery, 2007


Video


Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, "Blow Up" (2007).


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Photos
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, "Blow Up" (2007). Photos by Antimodular Research.


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Credits

Conroy Badger - programming
Pierre Fournier, Stephan Schulz, David Lemieux, Natalie Bouchard, Olfa Driss - production support


 
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