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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Recorders - overview

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Do you get the feeling you’re being watched? Have a taste of what you’ll experience in MCA’s latest interactive installation exhibition

First published on 6 Dec 2011. Updated on 12 Jan 2012.

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Australia’s first solo exhibition by one of the world’s favourite tech artists Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Recorders is a take on modern surveillance culture that uses technologies such as heart rate sensors, motion detectors, fingerprint scanners, microphones and face recognition software to involve the viewer in the process of art-making.

Here’s an idea of what to expect.
 
‘Close-up’
Up to 800 recent video recordings are projected inside the viewer’s silhouette -while the viewer himself is recorded (for viewing later).
 
‘Pulse Room’
In this room, the viewer is invited to place his or her hand on a heart-rate sensing interface. Doing so will set off 100 light bulbs hung from the ceiling, each bulb pulsating in the rhythm of the viewer’s heartbeat.
 
‘Microphones’
This installation is comprised of ten 1939-vintage Shure microphones, each with a tiny loudspeaker inside so that, as well as recording your voice, it will plays back the voice of a previous visitor. The playback varies from the most recent recording to a random selection from up to 600,000 voices.
 
‘Pulse Index’
As the visitor presses his or her fingers against an interface, their fingerprint pulsates to the heartbeat alongside the fingerprints of the last 509 participants.
 
‘Please Empty Your Pockets’
This recreation of a security checkpoint records every item that passes under the conveyor belt. The objects reappear on the other side of the belt against the backdrop of projected objects from the memory of the installation and leave behind a projected image.
 
Free, 16 Dec 2011-12 Feb 2012, 10am-5pm daily, MCA, 140 George St, The Rocks 

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Pulse Room 2006 Incandescent light bulbs, digital voltage controllers, heart rate sensors, computer, metal stand, custom-made software.

Photo by: Alex Davies

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