Mexico City 1967. Works and lives between Canada and Spain.

Lozano-Hemmer investigates, trough interactive installations, how the present electronic power pollutes our daily life. He focuses on connective or social electronic works that contrasts with the electronic art that requires mostly, solitaire participation.

His installations include tracking systems, grand projectors, Internet and inter-phases, that accentuates the inherent teatrality of public space. The work of Lozano-Hemmer is at the crossroad between architecture and performance. To compromise the participants in an active and critique way, and to turn them into actors and spectators he uses perverse surveillance technologies. His work it’s been acclaimed for re-defining the meaning of interactivity.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will represent Mexico at the 52 Biennale di Venezia, 2007, with the show Some Things Happen More Often Than All The Time.


LINKS:

* Inside the Studio, Artist video profile by iCI.

* Voz Alta, interactive installation at Tlatelolco.

* Lozano-Hemmer's web page

* Mexican Pavillion at the Venice Biennale

* Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Talk at the Tate Modern