Glories of Accounting
Subsculpture 5
Glories of Accounting is an interactive installation with a surveillance system that detects the position of the public in the exhibition room. When someone walks into the room, large hands appear on the screen automatically. The hands rotate along their forearm axis, following the visitor with the open palms always facing him or her. As more people enter the room, more hands appear and each follows a member of the public. Ultimately the piece is a visualization of electronic detection, using a metaphor that signifies both distance (as in a "stop" gesture) and inclusion (as in the expression "show of hands").
General info
Spanish name:
Glorias de la Contabilidad
Year of creation:
2005
Keywords:
Technique:
plasma screen or rear-projection, computer vision tracking system
Dimensions:
variable
Edition:
5 copies + 1 AP copy
Exhibitions
- Bear Witness Auction, Sotheby's, London, United Kingdom, 2015.
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Vicious Circular Breathing, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013 - 2014.
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Haunch of Venison, London, United Kingdom, 2008.
- Art Basel 38, Galería OMR, Basel, Switzerland, 2007.
- Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong, China, 2006.
- Pre-Emptive, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 2006.
- Subsculptures, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Genève, Switzerland, 2005 - 2006.
- ARCO '05 Black Box, bitforms gallery, Madrid, Spain, 2005.
Credits
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - concept, direction
- Conroy Badger - programming
- Susie Ramsay - model
- Tara DeSimone - photography
Bibliography
- Microwave International New Media Arts Festival exhibition catalogue, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong, China, 2006 (english and chinese). Text of 11 pages. (Book)
- Hernández, Edgar A., "Cae en coma, curador de la bienal veneciana", Comunidad, Mexico City, México, June 6th 2007 (español). Text of 1 page. (Newspaper)
Ozog, Maciej, "Surveilling the surveillance society: the case of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's installations", Conspiracy dwellings: Surveillance in Contemporary Art, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 2010 (english). Text of 7 pages. (Book)
Photo library (click to expand)
2005 - ARCO '05 Black Box, Bitforms gallery, Madrid, Spain