Eye Contact

Shadow Box 1

"Eye Contact" (Shadow Box 1) is the first piece of the Shadow Box series of interactive displays with a built-in computerized tracking system. This piece shows eight hundred simultaneous videos of people lying down, resting. As soon as a participant is detected, their presence triggers the miniature video portraits to wake up: hundreds of people simultaneously turn to look at the visitor directly, creating an uncanny experience that questions who is the observer and who is the observed.

General info

Spanish name:

Contacto Visual

Year of creation:

2006

Technique:

High resolution interactive display with built-in computerized surveillance system

Dimensions:

104.5 x 80 x 12 cm

Keywords:

database, print, indoor, tracker, interactive

Edition:

6 Editions, 1 AP

Collectors:

private collectors

Exhibitions

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pseudomatismos, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, México, 2015 - 2016.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Trackers, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France, 2011.
Inpoliticos, Palazzo Art Napoli, Naples, Italy, 2009.
Synthetic Times - Media Art China, A Beijing Olympics Cultural Project, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 2008.
Auto Emotion, Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2007.
Some Things Happen More Often Than All Of The Time, Mexican Pavilion, 52 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, 2007.
ARCO '06, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Madrid, Spain, 2006.
Art Basel 37, Galería OMR, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, bitforms gallery, Basel, Switzerland, 2006.