Reporters With Borders

Shadow Box 6

“Reporters With Borders” (Shadow Box 6) is a high-resolution interactive display that simultaneously shows 864 video clips of news anchors taken from TV broadcasts in the United States and Mexico. As the viewer stands in front of the piece his or her silhouette is shown on the display and within it reporters begin to talk. Every 5 minutes the piece switches the video clips - from a database of 1600 - and classifies them along gender, race and country, so that for instance on the left there are only American reporters and on the right only Mexicans.

The piece exists as a small "shadow box" version and as a large-scale projection room. A C-print lightjet edition also exists.

General info

Spanish name:

Reporteros con Fronteras

Year of creation:

2007

Treatment

Technique:

Projection, computerized tracking system

Dimensions:

10 x 10 x 6 m

Keywords:

database, interactive, indoor, projection, sound, print, tracker

Edition:

1 Edition, 1 AP

Shadow box

Technique:

High-resolution display with integrated computerized tracking system

Dimensions:

104,5 x 80 x 12 cm

Keywords:

database, interactive, indoor, projection, sound, print, tracker

Edition:

6 Editions, 1 AP

Collectors:

El Museo del Barrio and private collectors

Installation

Technique:

Wallpaper

Keywords:

database, interactive, indoor, projection, sound, print, tracker

Edition:

1 Edition

Lighter-darker print

Dimensions:

160 x 105 cm

Keywords:

database, interactive, indoor, projection, sound, print, tracker

Edition:

6 Editions, 1 AP

Male-female print

Dimensions:

160 x 105 cm

Keywords:

database, interactive, indoor, projection, sound, print, tracker

Edition:

6 Editions, 1 AP

Collectors:

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec

Mexico-US print

Dimensions:

160 x 105 cm

Keywords:

database, interactive, indoor, projection, sound, print, tracker

Edition:

6 Editions, 1 AP

Collectors:

private collector

Open-Close print

Dimensions:

160 x 105 cm

Keywords:

database, interactive, indoor, projection, sound, print, tracker

Edition:

6 Editions, 1 AP

Exhibitions

TECHS-MECHS: A Survey of Mexican Technological Culture, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Grand Theatre, San Francisco, California, United States, 2023.
Sin Título (Untitled), Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 2017.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pseudomatismos, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, México, 2015 - 2016.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Polímeros, Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain, 2014.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Vicious Circular Breathing, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013 - 2014.
Resonance: Looking for Mr. McLuhan, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York City, New York, United States, 2011.
Entreprise collective, Espace Création, Loto-Québec, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2011.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Haunch of Venison, London, United Kingdom, 2008.
Art Basel 39, Galería OMR, Basel, Switzerland, 2008.
Art Forum, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Berlin, Germany, 2008.
Turn and Widen, 5th Seoul International Media Art Bienniale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, 2008.
YOUniverse, 3rd International Bienniale of Contemporary Art, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain, 2008.
Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2004.