Eye Contact
Shadow Box 1
Eye Contact is the first piece of the Shadow Box series of interactive displays with a built-in computerized tracking system. This piece shows eight hundred simultaneous videos of people lying down, resting. As soon as a public member is detected, his or her presence triggers the miniature video portraits to wake up: hundreds of people simultaneously turn to look at the visitor directly, creating an uncanny experience that questions who is the observer and who is the observed.
General info
Spanish name:
Contacto Visual
Year of creation:
2006
Keywords:
Technique:
high resolution interactive display with built-in computerized surveillance system
Dimensions:
104,5 x 80 x 12 centimeters
Edition:
6 copies + 1 AP copy
Exhibitions
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pseudomatismos, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, México, 2015 - 2016.
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Trackers, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France, 2011.
- Inpoliticos, Palazzo Art Napoli, Naples, Italy, 2009.
- Synthetic Times - Media Art China, A Beijing Olympics Cultural Project, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 2008.
- Auto Emotion, Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2007.
- Some Things Happen More Often Than All Of The Time, Mexican Pavilion, 52 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, 2007.
- ARCO '06, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Madrid, Spain, 2006.
- Art Basel 37, Galería OMR, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, bitforms gallery, Basel, Switzerland, 2006.
Credits
- Conroy Badger - programming
- Pierre Fournier, David Lemieux, Natalie Bouchard - production support
Bibliography
- Galindo, Gabriela, "Pseudomatismos y otras paranoias posmodernas. Reflexión sobre el trabajo de Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", Réplica 21, Naucalpan, México, March 2nd 2016 (español). Text of 8 pages. (Website)
- Huerta, J.F., "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer | Pseudomatismos", ARTINDF, Mexico City, México, January 14th 2016. Text of 6 pages. (Website)
- Olvera, Leticia, "Exposición monográfica de Lozano-Hemmer", Gaceta, Mexico City, México, November 3rd 2015 (español). Text of 2 pages. (Newspaper)
Ozog, Maciej, "Surveilling the surveillance society: the case of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's installations", Conspiracy dwellings: Surveillance in Contemporary Art, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 2010 (english). Text of 7 pages. (Book)- Pangburn, DJ, "Pseudomatisms exhibition finds patterns in the randomness", The Creators Project, New York City, New York, United States, November 12th 2015 (english). Text of 6 pages. (Website)
- Walder, Paul, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: fragmentos de un código fuente. Rafael Lozano Hemmer: fragments of a source code., Art.es, Spain, 2012 (english and español). Text of 34 pages. (Magazine)
Photo library (click to expand)
2015 - Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, México
2006 - Antimodular Research
