Description
A high resolution interactive display that simultaneously shows 864 video clips of news anchors taken from TV broadcasts in the United States and Mexico. As the viewer stands in front of the piece his or her silhouette is shown on the display and within it reporters begin to talk. Every 5 minutes the piece switches the video clips — from a database of 1600— and classifies them along gender, race and country, so that for instance on the left there are only American reporters and on the right only Mexicans.

The piece exists as a small "shadow box" version and as a large-scale projection room. A C-print lightjet edition also exists.

Year of creation
2007
Technique
High-resolution display with integrated computerized tracking system.
Dimensions
Shadow box 104.5 x 80 x 12 cm.
Installation 10 x 10 x 6 m
Prints 160 x 105 cm each.
Manual

Exhibitions

• "Turn and Widen, 5th Seoul International Media Art Bienniale" (co-curator: Raul Zamudio), Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea, 2008.
• "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, 2008.
• Art Forum, Galerie Guy Bartschi, Berlin, Germany, 2008. (prints)
• "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", Haunch of Venison, London, UK, 2008. (projection)
• Art Basel, OMR Gallery, Basel 2008

Photos
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Conroy Badger - programming
Stephan Schulz, Natalie Bouchard, Olfa Driss - production support
Alejandro Blazquez, Santiago Fabregas - video capture