Third Person

Shadow Box 2

Third Person is the second piece of the ShadowBox series of interactive displays with a built-in computerized tracking system. This piece shows the viewer's shadow revealing hundreds of tiny words that are in fact all the verbs of the dictionary conjugated in the third person. The portrait of the viewer is drawn in real time by active words, which appear automatically to fill his or her silhouette. The collector may choose to display the words in English, Spanish or French, or a combination of the three languages.

The piece exists in a shadow box format and as a large installation.

General info

Spanish name:

Tercera Persona

Year of creation:

2006

Keywords:

database, outdoor, interactive, projection, indoor, tracker, surveillance.

Shadow box

Technique:

high resolution interactive display with built-in computerized surveillance system

Dimensions:

104,5 x 80 x 12 centimeters

Edition:

6 copies + 1 AP copy

Installation version

Technique:

projector, computerized surveillance system

Dimensions:

variable

Edition:

1 copy + 1 AP copy

Exhibitions

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pseudomatismos, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, México, 2015 - 2016.
Permission to be Global, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 2014.
Permission to be Global, The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, Florida, United States, 2013 - 2014.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Trackers, Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Trackers, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France, 2011.
ARCO '10, Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain, 2010 (projection version).
Recent works, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Genève, Switzerland, 2009 (projection version).
YOUniverse, 3rd International Bienniale of Contemporary Art, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain, 2008.
Art Basel 38, Galería OMR, Basel, Switzerland, 2007.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States, 2006.

Credits

Conroy Badger - programming
Pierre Fournier, David Lemieux, Natalie Bouchard - production support

Bibliography

"Rafael Lozano-Hemmer PG", Prepared Guitar, Madrid, Spain, January 13th 2015 (english). Text of 43 pages. (Website)
"Permission To Be Global: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection", Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida, United States, 2013 (english). Text of 1 page. (Book)
"Technology a 'work of art' at the'Haunted Mansion'", Hurriyet Daily News, Istanbul, Turkey, September 19th 2013 (english). Text of 3 pages. (Newspaper)
Ban, Sandra, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, ARTnews, vol. 106, no. 1, New York City, New York, United States, January 2007. Text of 1 page. (Magazine)
Fino-Radin, Ben , "Digital preservations in the artist's studio", Medium, San Francisco, California, United States, October 29th 2015 (english). Text of 17 pages. (Website)
Frèrot, Christine, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Art Nexus, Bogotá, Colombia, 2012 (english). Text of 2 pages. (Magazine)
Galindo, Gabriela, "Pseudomatismos y otras paranoias posmodernas. Reflexión sobre el trabajo de Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", Réplica 21, Naucalpan, México, March 2nd 2016 (español). Text of 8 pages. (Website)
Olvera, Leticia, "Exposición monográfica de Lozano-Hemmer", Gaceta, Mexico City, México, November 3rd 2015 (español). Text of 2 pages. (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)