{"id":2519,"date":"2009-07-17T07:06:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T14:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/biography\/rafael-lozano-hemmer\/"},"modified":"2009-07-17T07:06:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T14:06:13","slug":"rafael-lozano-hemmer","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/biography\/rafael-lozano-hemmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Lozano-Hemmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"subTitle\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lozano-hemmer.com\/images\/assets\/Rafael.jpg\" align=\"top\" width=\"175\" height=\"165\" border=\"1\" class=\"imgBorder\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"subTitle\" align=\"justify\"><span class=\"mainText\">Born in Mexico City in 1967. In 1989 he received                               a B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University                           in Montr\u00e9al, Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"subTitle\" align=\"justify\"><span class=\"mainText\">Electronic                               artist, develops large-scale interactive installations                               in public                                 space, usually deploying                               new technologies and custom-made physical interfaces.                               Using robotics, projections, sound, internet and                               cell-phone links, sensors and other devices, his                               installations aim to provide &#8220;temporary antimonuments                             for alien agency&#8221;. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"subTitle\" align=\"justify\"><span class=\"mainText\">His                               work has been commissioned for events such as the                               Millennium Celebrations                                 in Mexico City (1999), the Cultural Capital of                                 Europe                                 in Rotterdam (2001), the United Nations&#8217; World                                 Summit of Cities in Lyon (2003), the opening                               of the Yamaguchi                                 Centre for Art and Media in Japan (2003) and                               the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004)                               and the 40th Anniversary of the Tlatelolco Student                             Massacre in Mexico City (2008).[1]<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"subTitle\" align=\"justify\">More on the artist and his work at: http:\/\/www.lozano-hemmer.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"subTitle\" align=\"justify\">Wavefunction and Less Than Three, two interactive sculptures by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at the Bitforms Gallery in New York City. <\/p>\n<p class=\"subTitle\" align=\"justify\"><a class=\"wp-embedded-video\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1hfnQU_3Bb4\">http:\/\/http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1hfnQU_3Bb4<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"subTitle\" align=\"justify\"><span class=\"mainText\">[1] Text and images from: http:\/\/www.lozano-hemmer.com\/english\/biography.htm<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","artist":[101],"decade":[],"class_list":["post-2519","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","artist-rafael-lozano-hemmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/2519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}