Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

MEGALODEMOCRAT: The Public Art of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer SYNOPSIS: Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer started making public art in 1992, using high-power audiovisual media to help him transform cities around…

Benjamin Duffield's feature documentary on my public art is finally available online! "Megalodemocrat" (2019) was shot over ten years, when I still had hair, and it shows behind the scenes of making my interactive installations. Watch it for free here:
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This Thursday at Rocket Science Room in Montreal: Krzysztof Wodiczko and Ewa Harabasz in conversation www.instagram.com/p/DKU5G-8xW17/

The private sector will not fill the gaps. The size of the cuts is too big, and the incentives does not align to do basic research or train the next generation of PhD students.
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Personal Assistant to Rafael Lozano-Hemmer | Notion Mar 14, 2024 — English version follows French

A few more days left to apply for this full-time position at my studio. Join an incredible team of people working along progressive, open, fun, ambitious, international projects! is.gd/Qe8uTH

Personal Assistant to Rafael Lozano-Hemmer | Notion Mar 14, 2024 — English version follows French

My dear assistant Gabriel Rizzotti is moving to Paris. So now I’m looking for a new PA. We have a tight deadline to hire someone full-time as we want them to overlap with Gabriel as much as possible. Please help me circulate this job posting to any potential candidates out there!

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Atelier December 2024 Artforum introduces a series of live panel conversations between artists, critics, curators, and other voices in contemporary art.

Just a few weeks since we had this talk in NYC and reality is already far more harrowing than we expected then, —and we are a pessimistic group. Time to light up the flares! www.artforum.com/video/artfor...

Amodern Amodern is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to the study of media, culture, and poetics.

New issue of Amodern on “Countertype”, illustrated with our generative typeface for Encode/Decode. amodern.net

Art world looks to Bluesky as Meta and X shift right With social media owners cosying up to Donald Trump, creatives are looking for alternative platforms

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It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

New artwork "Binocular Tension", belongs to the series of interactive pieces I have been making since 1992(!) related to surveillance, observing observation, and making eye contact. The piece will be presented by PACE Gallery @pacegallery.bsky.social at ZonaMaco art fair in Mexico City.

Bingo

You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.

Beautiful Michael

I love Chrystia Freeland's proposal that Canada should put tariffs on Teslas.

As always, learning from Kate Crawford: I can’t believe I’d never heard of Jevon’s Paradox.

Hi. Jewish person here. These are concentration camps and should be called that by everyone.

First time flying into Gilead, stopped by immigration for the first time in a decade.

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Yeah! People often use the term to mean "art market". It would be great to make a never ending list: Art made in academia, artivism, performance scenes, street art scenes, social practice, digital commons, VJ and clubs, immersive experiences, chefs, drag, computer viruses, scenographers, makers, etc

If one wants to make a colonial musical around the spectre of violence that is decimating a country, at the very least one must study the country and hire some of its talent.

The more awards Emilia Pérez gets the more I hate the film.

We work too hard.
We're too tired to fall in love.
Therefore we must overthrow the government.

We work too hard.
We're too tired to overthrow the government.
Therefore we must fall in love.

—Rod Smith, "Pour le CG7" Poem sent to me by Antimodular's Michael Nardone

I still do, dear Raymond

collaborate

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Dark Ride - Miami to Naples - 2024 Dark Ride was a sound-art performance conceived by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in 2016 for Laumeier Sculpture Park in St-Louis. The piece was initially intended as a "social…

We made a short video documenting the Dark Ride performance
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"Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole"

There was a time when I could recite every line from Blue Velvet. RIP David Lynch, you were not supposed to die yet! "What year is this?"

Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

Quisiera hacer un musical llamado “Louis Bernard” sobre el saqueo colonial de Francia en Polinesia, con un gran final explosivo: bombas atómicas devastando Mururora, Fangataufa y otras islas. Salvo un par de actores indígenas Ma’ohi, el resto del elenco será Mexicano. La música será de Lila Downs.