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 Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Vectorial Elevation, Relational Architecture #4 Relation Art Team, Spain 2000, 15’ “Vectorial Elevation” was a large scale interactive installation that transformed Mexico City's historic centre using robotic searchlights controlled over the Internet. Visitors to the project web site at http://www.alzado.net could design ephemeral light sculptures over the National Palace, City Hall, the Cathedral and the Templo Mayor Aztec ruins. The sculptures, made by 18 xenon searchlights located around the Zócalo Square, could be seen from a 15 kilometre radius and were sequentially rendered as they arrived over the Net. The web site featured a 3D-java interface that allowed participants to make a vectorial design over the city and see it virtually from any point of view. When the project server in Mexico received a submission, it was numbered and entered into a queue. Every six seconds the searchlights would orient themselves automatically and three webcams would take pictures to document a participant's design. An archive page was made for each participant with comments, information and watermarked photos of their design. A notification email message was sent once the archive web page was done Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Mexican-Canadian electronic artist, works in relational architecture, technological theatre and performance art. He organised "Arte Virtual: Doce Propuestas de Arte Reactivo" an electronic art exhibition in an old subway station in Madrid. He organized and moderated the Fifth International Conference on Cyberspace, 5CYBERCONF, in Madrid. He is the co-ordinator of the "Life X.0" art and a-life competitions. He has been a resident artist twice at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. His pieces have been awarded honourable mentions for interactive art at the 1995 and 1998 Prix Ars Electronica and a Golden Nica in 2000. He won the "Best Installation" award at the Interactive Digital Media Awards in Toronto, received a Cyberstar award given by German TV WDR and the VR centre GMD in Bonn and was recently awarded a distinction at the Webby awards in San Francisco. His ‘relational architecture’ pieces have been presented so far at the Ars Electronica Festival 97, the 3rd Internationale Biennale Film und Architektur in Austria and the Zocalo plaza in Mexico City for the Millennium celebrations. His next pieces will be presented in The Havana Bienale and in the Cultural Capital of Europe Festival in Rotterdam. He holds a B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry and a minor in Art History from Concordia University in Montréal. |
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