Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s playful interactive exhibition Recorders is loaded with sinister undertones
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Recorders
Manchester Art Gallery, UK, until 30 January 2011
RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER’S art takes a piece of you, traps it and exposes it to the world. Recorders, the Mexican-born artist’s new exhibition, uses interactive media to explore our fascination with watching ourselves. It also explores the disquieting feeling of being watched.
In Pulse Index, participants volunteer to have their fingerprint and pulse rate captured, then displayed as a pulsating image on a giant plasma screen. As with many of Lozano-Hemmer’s pieces, the results from each participant appear…
