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Public Art Fund Talks: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is one of the most innovative voices of his generation, best known for creating large-scale installations in the public realm. His work challenges traditional notions of site-specificity, and instead focuses on the idea of creating relationship-specific work through connective interfaces. Since his emergence in the 1990s, Lozano-Hemmer has mixed the disparate fields of digital media, robotics, medical science, and performance art into interactive artworks. Lozano-Hemmer’s talk at The Cooper Union will address his practice in public space, with a special focus on two upcoming commissions: Border Tuner, a light and sound participatory installation across the US-Mexico border, on view in November, and Speaking Willow, the artist’s first permanent public art commission in the United States. This major, new interactive sound and light sculpture will be unveiled in April 2020 to inaugurate the opening of Planet Word, a new non-profit museum in Washington D.C. dedicated to the art and science of language. Public Art Fund has partnered with philanthropist and Planet Word founder Ann Friedman to commission Speaking Willow. The work will take the form of a 20-foot tall weeping willow tree with 500 directional speakers, suspended from the tree's branches, each one dedicated to a unique language and programmed with recordings of speeches, songs, poems and other texts curated in a collaboration with the artist and museum.

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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born in Mexico City 1967, lives in Montreal) creates platforms for public participation using robotic lights, digital fountains, computerized surveillance, media walls and telematic networks. He was the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale with an exhibition at Palazzo Van Axel in 2007. He has also shown at Biennials in Havana, Istanbul, Kochi, Liverpool, New Orleans, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney among others. His public art has been commissioned for events such as the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004), the Student Massacre Memorial in Tlatelolco (2008), the Vancouver Olympics (2010) and the pre-opening exhibition of the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi (2015). Collection

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