scale / proportion ppt lilli kayes. voice tunnel by rafael lozano-hemmer
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Scale / Proportion ppt
Lilli Kayes
Voice Tunnel by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
• 1967 – born in Mexico City
• 1989 – B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry
(Concordia University in Montreal, Canada)
• Currently faculty associate of the Graduate
School of Design at Harvard University.
• Electronic Artist
• Interactive Installations – architecture &
performance
• Public participation
Voice Tunnel
Voice Tunnel
Voice Tunnel• Large scale installation : tunnel = 1,400 feet long
• Transform the Park Avenue Tunnel during the “Summer
Streets” Annual Celebration in New York City.
• Goes from 33rd to 40th streets
• 300 powerful theatrical spotlights
• Intensity of the light – controlled by voice recording
• 150 loud-speakers placed along the tunnel
Voice Tunnel
How it works:
• Participant speaks into an intercom • A recording is captured• Silence = zero intensity • Speech = brightness of lights • Computer plays recording as a loop • The lights closest to the intercom light up based upon the
speech – Lights are set off – Recording of speech played over loud speaker
• Recordings start near the intercom and move downward as new recordings come in.
Conceptual…
• “Here is a chance, it’s an open mic, to have your voice converse with others….people are also listening and replying to what is happening in the past. “
• Freedom of speech • Constant systems tracking us
– Important for us as artists to intervene in that • Creating environments that create community
– That are poetic or connective or critical • “Art help create these cohesive bonds that ultimately
make us safer.”
Conceptual…
• Being able to explore your city • Exploring a space where you're already not
allowed.• 1st time able to see underneath the city • Interested in light • The quality of surveillance • Urban cacophony rendered by the lights
Voice Tunnel Video
• http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/voice_tunnel.php
Sandbox
Sandbox• Large scale installation created for Glow Santa Monica
• Two sandboxes for people to interact with
• A camera records their movements and projects them live
from one of the two of the world’s brightest projectors
• Projects over 8,000 square feet
• Amplifying human presence
• Materializing surveillance - misuse them to create
environments of connection instead of environments of
suspicion.
Sandbox Video
• http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/sandbox.php