Surface Tension

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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

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Co-workers & Funding
Conroy Badger — programming
Susie Ramsay, Will Bauer and Tara DeSimone — production
Bruce Ramsay — model
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Description
Surface Tension is an interactive installation where an image of a giant human eye follows the observer with orwellian precision.

This work was inspired by a reading of Georges Bataille’s text The Solar Anus during the first Gulf War –the first wide-spread deployment of camera-guided “intelligent bombs”. Present-day computerised surveillance techniques employed by the Department of Homeland Security in the United States through the Patriot Act, provide a new and distressing backdrop for this piece.
The installation was originally developed in 1992 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid as a stage module for a theatre work by the Transition State Theory troupe. Since then, Surface Tension has been presented as an art installation, typically on a plasma screen.

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Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • installation-based
Technology & Material
Display
Year of Creation: 1992-1993
Technique: Plasma or rear-projection screen, computerised surveillance system, custom-made software.
Dimensions: Variable dimensions. edition of 6
Keywords: database, indoor, interactive, performance, projection, tracker.
Collections: Colección/Fundación Jumex (Mexico City), Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (Miami), Jonathon Carroll Collection (NYC), Speyer Family Collection (NYC) and Daros Latinamerica (Zürich).
Exhibitions & Events
Recorders: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Emergentes
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