Tag: RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER

If you've followed our coverage of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, you'll know that the tech-lovin' artist has a thing for biometrics. Now, as part of his ongoing series of biometric objects and installations, Lozano-Hemmer has turned to iDevices with his 'Pulse Phone' app. Put simply, Pulse Phone is a heart rate monitor that gathers pulse data by using your iPhone's camera. As you lightly place your ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, one of our favorite tech artists, has a new exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery in the U.K. Several of his older biometric works will be on display, as well as two new ones: 'Please Empty Your Pockets', which scans visitors' belongings with an airport-type ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/06/04/rafael-lozano-hemmers-solar-equation-brings-out-the-sun-at-ni/'; As part of the 'Light in Winter' Festival in Melbourne Australia, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has created one of his largest projects ever: a three-dimensional, animated scale model of the Sun, tethered in the sky above Federation Square, called 'Solar Equation.' Lozano-Hemmer employs a ...

In our first installment of the history of technology in modern art, we examined the works that helped breed an art-making culture in which machines and electronics were either figured or utilized in the creative process. From just before Marcel Duchamp to Nam June Paik, modern art quite literally transformed from the centuries-old traditions of painting to complex and sometimes inscrutable modes ...

The Armory Show consists of over 300 galleries and thousands of artists, parading new talent out alongside pieces by Kandinksy and Warhol, Damien Hirst and Murakami. Though the majority of works appear in traditional mediums, interactive, video-based work always draws a crowd weary from looking at booths and booths of acrylics, apoxy, krylon and more. Canadian-Mexican Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/02/12/olympic-light-art-designed-by-you-and-rafael-lozano-hemmer/'; Want a chance to take part in the Olympic celebrations in Vancouver? One of our favorite tech-loving artists, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, just debuted his public art installation 'Vectorial Elevation' for the start of the Winter Olympics today. Lozano-Hemmer has placed 10 high-powered ...