Tape Recorders

Subsculpture 14

Rows of motorised measuring tapes record the amount of time that visitors stay in the installation. As a computerised tracking system detects the presence of a person, the closest measuring tape starts to project upwards. When the tape reaches around 3 meters high it crashes and recoils back.

Each hour, the system prints the total number of minutes spent by the sum of all visitors. Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

General info

Spanish name:

Cintas de Grabación

Year of creation:

2011

Keywords:

interactive, robotic, indoor, tracker.

Five tapes version

Technique:

5 motorised measuring tapes, kinect tracking system, computer, thermal printer, custom-made hardware and software

Dimensions:

variable

Edition:

3 copies + 1 AP copy

Twelve tapes version

Technique:

12 motorised measuring tapes, kinect tracking system, computers, thermal printer, custom-made hardware and software

Room conditions:

can be installed on a wall that measures anywhere between 4 and 8 metres long

Dimensions:

variable

Edition:

3 copies + 1 AP copy

Eighty tapes version

Technique:

80 motorised measuring tapes, kinect tracking system, computers, thermal printer, custom-made hardware and software

Room conditions:

can be installed on one or several walls as in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney

Dimensions:

variable

Edition:

1 copy + 1 AP copy

Exhibitions

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Unstable Presence, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2018.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Decision Forest, Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, 2018.
Looking at One Thing and Thinking of Something Else, Carroll / Fletcher Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 2016.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Polímeros, Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain, 2014.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Recorders, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 2011 - 2012.

Credits

Stephan Schulz - Programming, custom hardware and software
Pierre Fournier, Sébastien Dallaire, David Lemieux, Tyson Parks, Guillaume Tremblay, Julie Bourgeois, Susie Ramsay - Antimodular production

Bibliography

"Rafael Lozano-Hemmer PG", Prepared Guitar, Madrid, Spain, January 13th 2015 (english). Text of 43 pages. (Website)
Ciociola, Chiara, New media art., Neural Issue 42, Bari, Italy, 2012 (english). Text of 1 page. (Magazine)
Peirano, Marta, "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, el animista escéptico", El Diario, Madrid, Spain, May 13th 2014 (español). Text of 4 pages. (Website)