One of my favorite artists, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is speaking in New York this week! The talk is titled "Antimonuments: Performative Self-Repair for Public Spaces". There you go. Here's the blurb:

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, an internationally renowned Mexican-Canadian artist, creates interactive public art works that explore the intersection between new technologies, public space and performance art. Using robotics, tracking systems, online interfaces, high-power projectors and other media, Lozano-Hemmer's work transforms space into a vehicle to study the distance between people and urban representation.

Lozano-Hemmer will discuss the most recent additions to his "Relational Architecture" series, a group of large scale interactive public works commissioned for London, Tokyo, Toronto, and Cologne, as well as newer works for exhibition spaces. These include FREQUENCY AND VOLUME, 800 square metres of projected shadows which allow participants to scan the radio spectrum of the city with their bodies; and STANDARDS AND DOUBLE STANDARDS, an interactive installation that consists of fifty fastened belts that are suspended at waist height from the ceiling. Controlled by a computerized tracking system, the belts rotate automatically to follow the public, turning their buckles slowly to face passers-by.

Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Multipurpose Room at Pace University, 3 Spruce Street
Contact: More information about this event and registration is available here.
Admission: $5; free for Pace students.

Both Pace University’s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts and the Multi Purpose Room can be found by entering on Spruce Street between Park Row and Gold Street, just east of City Hall Park.