Antimonuments: A Draft of Shadows
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a Mexican-Canadian media artist. He will present his interactive installations at the intersection of architecture and performance art. Using technologies such as robotics, computer-ized surveillance, projectors, multichannel sound systems and telematic networks, he creates platforms for public participation that interrupt the ghastly corporate narratives of “architainment” and the identi-tarian and monologic operation typical of many “son et lumiere” spectacles. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival, and animatronics, his light and shadow works are “antimonuments for alien agency.” Recently he has been the subject of solo exhibitions at MUAC, Mexico City, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. He has also shown at Biennials in Venice, Havana, Istanbul, Kochi, Liverpool, Montréal, Moscow, New Orleans, Seoul, Seville, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney. His large-scale public art installations have been commissioned for events such as the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City, the Cultural Capital of Europe in Rotterdam, the UN World Summit of Cities in Lyon, and the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin.
This ART 158 lecture series event took place April 20, 2017, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT. Made possible through the generous support of the Carmen Morton Christensen Endowment, the Department of Art & Art History, the College of Fine Arts, ASUU, the International Association of Lighting Designers, and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
