Description “The Company of Colours” is the ninth piece in the Shadow Box series of interactive displays with a built-in computerized tracking system. This piece shows a live surveillance camera view constructed out of a palette of named colour swatches that can be rendered by contemporary computers. Every few minutes the piece automatically switches to show the live view constructed with a variety of culturally-significant colour palettes from computer and videogame history, including the 4 shades of green of the original Nintendo Gameboy, the eight colours of teletext, and the sixteen colours of the Commodore 64, the Apple II and the ZX Spectrum. The piece emphasizes the limited gamut of colour rendering possible with computers and the way this limitation creates styles of representation.
Year of creation
2009 Technique High resolution interactive
display with built-in computerized surveillance system. Dimensions
104.5 x 80 x 12 cm Manual
Exhibitions
• ARCO, Galería Max Estrella, Madrid 2010
• Art Bologna, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Bologna 2010
• "Transition States", Haunch of Venison Gallery, NYC 2009
• "Levels of Nothingness" performance/installation, Guggenheim Museum, NYC 2009 (projection version).
Video
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, "The company of Colours" (2009)
03:33 minutes (45 MB)
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Rafael
Lozano-Hemmer, "The Company of Colours" (2009). Photos
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Credits
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - concept and direction
Stephan Schulz - programming
Pierre Fournier, David Lemieux, Conroy Badger - production support
