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