1984x1984
Shadow Box 10
"1984x1984" is the tenth piece in Lozano-Hemmer’s Shadow Box series of interactive displays with a built-in computerized tracking system. The piece shows a grid of thousands of random numbers extracted from addresses photographed by Google Street View. Scanned by Google from the front doors of buildings around the world, the numbers have an immense variety of fonts, colours, textures, and styles. As a viewer walks in front of the piece, his or her silhouette is represented within the display, and within its form, all numbers countdown to show the number 1984 repeated throughout. The piece was made as a homage to George Orwell’s eponymous dystopian novel, 30 years after his predicted date for the collapse of privacy.
The piece exists as a reactive flat screen which can be shown unframed or integrated into an anodized aluminium enclosure. Also, there as an edition of 6 C-prints in Kodak Endura paper and a "treatment" version which can be projected or shown on a display larger than 6 x 3 m.
Shadow Box
C-Print
Treatment
Exhibitions
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Cercanía, Arsenal Art Contemporain, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2020.
- You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, 2018.
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Transition States, Gund Gallery, Gambier, Ohio, United States, 2016 - 2017.
- RIXC Festival, RIXC, Riga, Latvia, 2016.
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Preabsence, Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2016.
- Art Brussels, Carroll / Fletcher Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2016.
- Dallas Art Fair, bitforms gallery, Dallas, Texas, United States, 2016.
- ARCO '16, Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain, 2016.
- Untitled Art Fair, bitforms gallery, Miami, Florida, United States, 2015.
- Zona MACO, Galería OMR, Mexico City, México, 2015.
Credits
- Guillaume Tremblay - Programming
- Conroy Badger, Julie Bourgeois, Pierre Fournier – Production assistance
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