Interactive Light Sculptures

[Merlion]

Two related articles about Montreal-based artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and his interactive light sculptures exhibition at Toronto.

Light up the night to the beat of your heart

May 31, 2007, ... One of the world's biggest interactive light sculptures, "Pulse Front: Relational Architecture 12" from Montreal-based artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, will blast 20 pulsing mega-watt light beams with its awesome 200,000 watts of power up to 10 kilometres into the sky northward over the city.

Here's a light show visible from space......

Pulse Front" is also part of "Auto Emotion: Autobiography, emotion and self-fashioning" an art-star driven exhibition at the Power Plant at Harbortfront Centre that's curated by the gallery's director, Gregory Burke.

In their individual efforts toward their own self-fashioning, "Pulse Front's" visitors, "are registering their own heartbeats as spectacular projections," says Burke.

"They are, in effect, autographs," he adds.

"The dome of light on top of all of Harbourfront will be controlled by people's pulses," says the internationally acclaimed Mexican-born Canadian artist also representing Mexico at the Venice Biennale in Italy starting next week .....

Light this up just by moving



Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, a Montreal-based Mexican-Canadian artist, has developed an international reputation for putting together public installations that empower viewers by rethinking the function of technology. In keeping with the theme of Luminato, light plays a major role in his oeuvre.

Spectators become participants in a Lozano-Hemmer installation, altering the work with their physical presence and behaviour. For his Relational Architecture series, he projects images or text that are only visible in people's shadows and sets up searchlight arrays that can be controlled by logging onto a website or sending a text message. ...

[TMeeks]

I found myself wishing for more images. Light as an artistic expression has always interested me.

While it's very different from the use of light in the work you cited, part of the appeal of Cherl (Meeks) Manger's work is the interplay of light passing through or being blocked by the carving.

[Merlion]

To see more, perhaps you can go into the website of the artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. It is here.

He seems to have many projects. This link is about these projects over the years.

[Merlion]

Now I have the picture of Pulse Front, taken from here:

Pulse Front Lights Up the Sky



But of course there is no way static pictures can capture the interesting essence of such interactive light sculpture. Perhaps videos can show more.