Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Nisa Gil sampler video

Quick Bio Born in Mexico City in 1967 Bachelors in Science in Physical Chemistry 1989 from Concordia University in Montreal His science background inspired and often helps with the interactive installations he creates. Known for large scale interactive installations Off his site: He has received two BAFTA British Academy Awards for Interactive Art in London, a Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica in Austria, “Artist of the year” Rave Award from Wired Magazine, a Rockefeller fellowship, the Trophée des Lumières in Lyon and an International Bauhaus Award in Dessau. He has lectured at Goldsmiths college, the Bartlett school, Princeton, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Cooper Union, USC, MIT MediaLab, Guggenheim Museum, LA MOCA, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Cornell, UPenn, SCAD, Danish Architecture Cente, CCA in Montreal, ICA in London and the Art Institute of Chicago.

More Grants and Awards Joyce Award, The Joyce Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, United States Knights Arts Challenge for Open Air, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States National Endowment for the Arts grant for Open Air, Washington, District of Columbia, United States BAFTA British Academy Award for Interactive Art 2005, London, United Kingdom Artist/Performer of the year, Wired Magazine Rave Awards, San Francisco, California, United States Best Interactive Installation, HorizonZero, Banff, Alberta, Canada Foreign Affairs ACA Grant, Canada Production grant from the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montréal, Québec, Canada Rockefeller-Ford Fellowship, New York City, New York, United States Trophée des Lumiéres, Lyon, France World Technology Network Award for the Arts, San Francisco, California, United States BAFTA British Academy Award for Interactive Art 2002, London, United Kingdom Gold Award, Interactive Media Design Review 2002, I.D. Magazine, United States Interactive Art Distinction, Ars Electronica 2002, Linz, Austria International Bauhaus Award 2002, 1st Prize, Dessau, Germany Jury member, Fondation Daniel Langlois, Montréal, Québec, Canada Media Arts Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada Distinction, SFMOMA Webby Awards 2000, San Francisco, California, United States Excellence Award, Media Arts Festival 2000, CG Arts, Tokyo, Japan Finalist, Medienkunstpreis 2000, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany Interactive Art Golden Nica, Ars Electronica 2000, Linz, Austria Interactive Art Honorable Mention, Ars Electronica 1998, Linz, Austria Best Installation, Interactive Digital Media Awards 1996, Toronto, Ontario, Canada nd Prize, Cyberstar, Köln, Germany, June Interactive Art Honorable Mention, Ars Electronica 1995, Linz, Austria Canada Council Computer Integrated Media Grant Equipment Grant, Communications Canada Travel Grant, ICEX España Travel Grant, External Affairs Canada Bourse circulation, Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec Canada Council Touring Office Grant Canadian Consulate Grant, New York City, New York, United States Canada Council Computer Integrated Media Grant 1990.

“What you give is what you get.” Lozano-Hemmer’s work deals a lot with presence Work often uses the audience as an element of the work A lot of pieces record (whether visually as in Sandbox, as a pulse in all his Pulse pieces, or as the objects they give up in Please Empty Your Pockets) - Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Art 21 After working for twenty years at the intersection of performance, architecture, and critical studies, I’m very curious about creating platforms for self-representation and participation. My work is incomplete and experimental in nature. The platforms require people to participate, they require people to be aware of the events and then take the piece in a direction that suits them. -Rafael Lozano-Hemmer said during an interview for Art 21 when asked to talk about his workinterview for Art 21

Please Empty Your Pockets, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom also shown at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia and the Global Contemporary, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany both in 2011

Sandbox, Glow, Santa Monica Beach, Santa Monica, United States

Pulse Room, "Plataforma", Fábrica La Constancia, Puebla, México Also shown at museums and galleries in Australia, US, UK, Canada, Spain, and Italy

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Pulse Installation: watch?v=t1SePj_BloQ watch?v=t1SePj_BloQ watch?v=u57NrDyd2IY watch?v=u57NrDyd2IY Why Lozano-Hemmer

Relation to other Artists Daniel Rozin’s Mechanical Mirror, 1999http:// lhttp:// l Olafur Elliason, specifically the Weather Project, Lozano-Hemmer’s Solar Equation, hemmer.com/videos.php?id=solar_equation hemmer.com/videos.php?id=solar_equation

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