Artist Biography

Hemmer

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was born in Mexico City in 1967. In 1989 he received a B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montréal, Canada.

Media artist working at the intersection of architecture and performance art. He creates platforms for public participation using technologies such as robotic lights, digital fountains, computerized surveillance, media walls, and telematic networks. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival, and animatronics, his light and shadow works are "antimonuments for alien agency".

He was the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale with an exhibition at Palazzo Van Axel in 2007. He has also shown at Biennials in Cuenca, Havana, Istanbul, Kochi, Liverpool, Melbourne NGV, Moscow, New Orleans, New York ICP, Seoul, Seville, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, and Wuzhen. His public art has been commissioned for the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004), the Student Massacre Memorial in Tlatelolco (2008), the Vancouver Olympics (2010), the pre-opening exhibition of the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi (2015), and the activation of the Raurica Roman Theatre in Basel (2018). Collections holding his work include MoMA and Guggenheim in New York, TATE in London, MAC and MBAM in Montreal, Jumex, and MUAC in Mexico City, DAROS in Zurich, MONA in Hobart, 21C Museum in Kanazawa, Borusan Contemporary in Istanbul, CIFO in Miami, MAG in Manchester, SFMOMA in San Francisco, ZKM in Karlsruhe, SAM in Singapore and many others.

He has received two BAFTA British Academy Awards for Interactive Art in London, a Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica in Austria, "Artist of the year" Rave Award from Wired Magazine, a Rockefeller fellowship, the Trophée des Lumières in Lyon, an International Bauhaus Award in Dessau, the title of Compagnon des Arts et des Lettres du Québec in Quebec, and the Governor General's Award in Canada. He has lectured at Goldsmiths College, the Bartlett School, Princeton, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Cooper Union, USC, MIT MediaLab, Guggenheim Museum, LA MOCA, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Cornell, UPenn, SCAD, Danish Architecture Center, CCA in Montreal, ICA in London, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

In the past two years, Lozano-Hemmer was the subject of 9 solo exhibitions worldwide, including a major show at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, the inaugural show at the AmorePacific Museum in Seoul, and a mid-career retrospective co-produced by the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal and SFMOMA. In 2019 his immersive performance “Atmospheric Memory” premiered at the Manchester International Festival and his interactive installation “Border Tuner” connected people across the US-Mexico border using bridges of light controlled by the voices of participants in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and El Paso, Texas.

Solo Exhibitions

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2009

  • Levels of Nothingness, Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York, United States, September 21st - September 27th. Commissioned by Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum, celebrating its 25th anniversary together with the Museum's 50th anniversary. Funded by the Colección/Fundación Jumex, Deutsche Bank, German Consulate General and Mexican Cultural Institute.
  • Transition States, Haunch of Venison, New York City, New York, United States, September 10th - October 24th.
  • Recent works, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Genève, Switzerland, May 14th - September 5th.
  • Pulse Glow, Pulse Glow Festival, City Hall, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

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2007

  • Pulse Front (curated by: Gregory Burke from Power Plant), Power Plant, Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Public art installation commissioned by and premiered at LuminaTO and co-produced with Harbourfront Centre.
  • Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
  • Some Things Happen More Often Than All Of The Time (curated by: Príamo Lozada and Bárbara Perea), Mexican Pavilion, 52 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.

2006

  • Under scan, East Midlands Development Agency, Castle Wharf, Nottingham, United Kingdom, March. Public art commission.
  • Under scan, East Midlands Development Agency, Market Square, Derby, United Kingdom, February - March. Public art commission.
  • Under scan, East Midlands Development Agency, Humberstone Gate West, Leicester, United Kingdom, January. Public art commission.
  • Body Movies, Museum of Art, HK Arts Development Council, Hong Kong, China.
  • Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States.

2005

2004

  • Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Galería OMR, Mexico City, México, November - December.
  • Vectorial Elevation, celebrations of Europe expansion, O'Connell Street, Dublin, Ireland.

2003

  • Relational Architectures (curated by: Priamo Lozada), Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, México, May - June.
  • Amodal Suspension, opening project of the Yamaguchi Center for Art and Media, Yamaguchi, Japan. Access Pods and terminals for the piece were installed at: MACBA in Barcelona, MARS Lab in Bonn, C3 in Budapest, Fundación Telefónica in Buenos Aires, MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Bauhaus in Dessau, IAMAS in Ogaki, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Kyoto Art Center in Kyoto, FACT in Liverpool, Science Museum in London, Ojo Atómico in Madrid, Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, SAT in Montréal, Sarai in New Delhi, Eyebeam in New York City, Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh, V2_Organisatie in Rotterdam, Itaú Cultural Center in São Paulo, Sendai Mediatheque in Sendai, Art Center Nabi in Seoul, NTT-ICC in Tokyo, MeSci in Tokyo, Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, Emily Carr in Vancouver, WRO Center in Wroclaw and Multimedia Institute in Zagreb.
  • Body Movies, Duisburg Akzente, Duisburg, Germany.
  • Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
  • Vectorial Elevation (curated by: Claire Peillod), Fête des Lumières, Place Bellecour, Lyon, France.

2002

2001

  • Airport Cluster (curated by: Pat Binder), Foto/Graphik Galerie Käethe Kollwitz, Berlin, Germany.
  • Body Movies (curated by: Alex Adriaansens and Andreas Broeckmann), Cultural Capital of Europe Festival, V2 Grounding, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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1995

  • ARCO '95 - The Trace, Fundacion Arte y Tecnologia, Madrid, Spain.

Group Exhibitions

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  • La imagen humana: arte, identidades y simbolismo, CaixaForum Palma de Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, November 22nd - March 23rd 2023.
  • Metadata: Rethinking Photography from the 21st Century (curated by: Christopher Jones), The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, United States, March 1st - June 1st.
  • La imagen humana: arte, identidades y simbolismo, CaixaForum Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain, February 18th - May 29th.
  • La imagen humana: arte, identidades y simbolismo, CaixaForum Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain - October 23rd.

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2012

  • Art Basel Miami Beach, Galería OMR, Miami, Florida, United States, December 6th - December 9th.
  • Pulse Miami, bitforms gallery, Miami, Florida, United States, December 6th - December 9th.
  • Unsaid/Spoken (curated by: José Roca and Moacir dos Anjos), The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, Florida, United States, December 3rd - February 3rd 2013.
  • Feria ArtBO, Galerí OMR, Bogotá, Colombia, October 19th - October 22nd.
  • FEMSA "desplazamiento de Arte Moderno", Museo Reyes Meza, Nuevo Laredo, México, September 27th - October 27th.
  • Expo Chicago 2012, Navy Pier, Galería Max Estrella, Chicago, Illinois, United States, September 19th - September 23rd.
  • Son et Lumière (curated by: Chieko Kitade), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, September 16th - March 17th 2013.
  • Field Conditions (curated by: Joseph Becker), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, United States, September 1st - January 1st 2013.
  • Transverso: Instalaciones y nuevos medios en Iberoamérica (curated by: José Manuel Noceda and Orlando Britto), Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain, September - October.
  • Copenhagen Art Festival (curated by: Andreas Broegger), Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 24th - October 21st.
  • Ruhr Triennal (curated by: Heiner Goebbels), Jahrhunderthalle Park, Bochum, Germany, August 15th - September 30th.
  • Urdaibaiarte (curated by: Alberto Sánchez Balmisa), Urdaibai Park, Urdaibai, Basque Country, Spain, July 20th - September 23rd.
  • Play with me (curated by: Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Idurre Alonso and Selene Preciado), Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles, California, United States, June 17th - August 19th.
  • Zones of Contention (curated by: Xandra Eden), Weatherspoon Art Museum Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States, June 16th - September 2nd.
  • Art Basel 43, Galería OMR, Basel, Switzerland, June 14th - June 17th.
  • C2-MTL Conference, Montréal, Québec, Canada, May 22nd - May 26th.
  • Art Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, bitforms gallery, Hong Kong, China, May 17th - May 20th.
  • Focal Points: Art and Photography (curated by: Tim Wilcox), Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom, May 17th - June 2nd 2013.
  • Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Havana, Cuba, May 11th - June 11th.
  • The Eleventh Bienal de la Habana (curated by: Ibis Hernández), Havana, Cuba, May 11th - June 11th.
  • Migration, ARNDT Gallery, Sydney, Australia, March 29th - May 20th.
  • WBA3: Architecture in the Expanded Field (curated by: Dr. Ila Berman and Douglas Burnham of envelope A+D), Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, March 8th - April 7th.
  • Time-Lapse (curated by: Irene Hofmann), Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, February 16th - May 20th.
  • ARCO '12, Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain, February 15th - February 19th.

2011

2010

2009

  • Extra-Muros (curated by: Alain Mongeau), Mutek Festival 10th anniversary, Red light district, Montréal, Québec, Canada, May 27th - May 31st.
  • 5 Solos, Galería OMR, Mexico City, México.
  • ARCO '09, Haunch of Venison, Madrid, Spain.
  • Armory Show, Galería OMR, New York City, New York, United States.
  • Art & Electronic Media (curated by: Edward Shanken), bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States.
  • Being in the World (curated by: Berta Sichel), The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, Florida, United States.
  • Conjugaciones: Arte Contemporáneo Latinoamericano en la Colección FEMSA (curated by: Miriam Kaiser), Museo de los pintores Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca, México.
  • Decode, digital design sensations (curated by: Louise Shannon and Ligaya Salazar), Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Emergentes (curated by: José-Carlos Mariategui), Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile.
  • Enter Action-Digital Art Now (curated by: Gitte Orskou, Anne Sophie Lossing, Pernille Taagaard Dinesen and Anne Sophie Witzke), ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark.
  • Hundred Stories about Love (curated by: Chieko Kitade), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.
  • Inpoliticos (curated by: Laura Bardier), Palazzo Art Napoli, Naples, Italy.
  • Open Space (curated by: Yukiko Shikata), NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo, Japan.
  • Pulse Art Fair, bitforms gallery, Miami, Florida, United States.
  • Socially Active (curated by: Rachael Baum, Vivian So Hyun Choi, Helena Copsey, Sue-Na Gay, Grace Zihua Lu and Sara Taylor), University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom.
  • The World is Yours (curated by: Anders Kold), Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Un Mundo Feliz (curated by: Rewell Altunaga), 10th Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba.
  • White Tie & Tiara Charity Ball, Elton John AIDS Foundation, London, United Kingdom.
  • YOU_ser_: Das Jarhundert des Konsumenten (curated by: Peter Weibel), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany.

2008

  • Pulse Miami, bitforms gallery, Miami, Florida, United States, December 3rd - December 7th.
  • The Prisoner's Dilemma (curated by: Leanne Mella), The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, Florida, United States, December 3rd - March 1st 2009.
  • Maquinas y Almas - Souls and Machines (curated by: Montxo Algora and Jose Luis de Vicente), Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, June 26th - October 12th.
  • Haunch of Venison, New York City, New York, United States.
  • Art Basel 39, Galería OMR, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Art Forum, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Berlin, Germany.
  • Asedio (curated by: José Luis Barrios), Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, México.
  • Emergentes (curated by: José-Carlos Mariategui), Centro Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru.
  • Emergentes (curated by: José-Carlos Mariategui), Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Fortunate Objects (curated by: Cecilia Fajardo Hill), The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, Florida, United States.
  • In Memoriam Albert Hofmann (curated by: Michel Blancsubé), Laberinto de la Ciencia y Las Artes, Jumex Collection, San Luis Potosí, México.
  • Intruders (curated by: Mélanie Boucher), Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Québec, Canada.
  • LOOP '08, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Catalonia Ramblas Hotel, Barcelona, Spain.
  • New Zealand Festival, Te Papa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand.
  • No es Neutral (curated by: Felicitas Rausch), La Tabakalera, International Contemporary Culture Centre, San Sebastián, Spain.
  • Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence (curated by: José Roca), Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas, United States.
  • Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence (curated by: José Roca), Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States.
  • Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence (curated by: José Roca), The John and Marbe Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, United States.
  • Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence (curated by: José Roca), McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.
  • Prospect.1, New Orleans Bienniale (curated by: Dan Cameron), New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
  • Synthetic Times - Media Art China, A Beijing Olympics Cultural Project (curated by: Zhang Ga), National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China.
  • The Art of Participation: 1950 to now (curated by: Rudolf Frieling), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, United States.
  • The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space (curated by: Peter Gorschlüter, Lindsey Fryer and the people of Liverpool), Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
  • Turn and Widen, 5th Seoul International Media Art Bienniale (curated by: Raul Zamudio), Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.
  • YOUniverse, 3rd International Bienniale of Contemporary Art (curated by: Peter Weibel, Marie-Ange Brayer and Wonil Rhee), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.

2007

  • Art Basel Miami Beach, Galería OMR, Miami, Florida, United States, December 6th - December 9th.
  • E-art (curated by: Jean Gagnon), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, September 20th - December 9th.
  • Art Basel 38, Galería OMR, Basel, Switzerland, June 13th - June 17th.
  • LA Art in New York, Galería OMR, New York City, New York, United States, February 23rd - February 25th.
  • ARCO '07, bitforms gallery, Madrid, Spain, February 15th - February 19th.
  • ARCO '07, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Madrid, Spain, February 15th - February 19th.
  • ARCO '07, Galería OMR, Madrid, Spain, February 15th - February 19th.
  • Arte Fiera Bologna, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Bologna, Italy, January 26th - January 28th.
  • The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, Florida, United States.
  • Art Basel Unlimited - Art Basel 38, Galería OMR, Galerie Guy Bärtschi and bitforms gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Art Brussels, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Auto Emotion (curated by: Gregory Burke), Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • Automatic Update (curated by: Barbara London), Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York, United States.
  • Collective I, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Genève, Switzerland.
  • Emergentes (curated by: José-Carlos Mariategui), The Laboral Art Center, Gijón, Spain.
  • Floating Artworks (curated by: Bruce Ferguson), TD Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • Huge, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • Lines of Flight (curated by: Celina Jeffrey), LEF-CAAC, Hunter College, New York City, New York, United States.
  • Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence (curated by: José Roca), ICI, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • Pulse Fair, bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States.

2006

2005

  • Art Basel Miami Beach, Galería OMR, Miami, Florida, United States, December.
  • Beyond Delirious, The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, Florida, United States, November 30th - February 3rd 2006.
  • Subsculptures, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Genève, Switzerland, November 5th - January 14th 2006.
  • FIAC, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Paris, France, October 6th - October 10th.
  • Dataspace (curated by: Priamo Lozada), Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, México, February - March.
  • Art Meets Media (curated by: Yukiko Shikata and Fumihiko Sumitomo), NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo, Japan, January - March.
  • bitforms Seoul, Seoul, South Korea.
  • Centro Cultural de España, Mexico City, México.
  • Algorithmic Revolution (curated by: Peter Weibel), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany - 2005.
  • ARCO '05, Galería OMR, Madrid, Spain.
  • ARCO '05 Black Box (curated by: Mark Tribe), bitforms gallery, Madrid, Spain.
  • Art Basel 36, Galería OMR, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Art Basel Unlimited - Art Basel 36, Galería OMR, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Art Brussels, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Art Cologne, Galería Metropolitana, Cologne, Germany.
  • Dataspace, Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain.
  • Elektra Festival, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
  • In the Line of Flight, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
  • MUSAC (curated by: Agustín Perez Rubio and Rafael Doctor), León, Spain.
  • X Salón de Arte Bancomer (curated by: José Luis Barrios, José Springer and Sylvia Navarrete), Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, México.

2004

  • Art Basel Miami Beach, Galería OMR, Miami, Florida, United States, December.
  • Techniques of the Visible (curated by: Xu Jiang, Sebastián López, Shengtian Zheng and Zhang Qing), Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China, October - November.
  • Art&D, Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), Montréal, Québec, Canada, September 1st - October 2nd.
  • Navigator exhibition (curated by: Jun-Jieh Wang), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, July - August.
  • ARCO '04, Galería OMR, Madrid, Spain.
  • Art Basel Unlimited - Art Basel 35, Galería OMR, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Art Cologne, bitforms gallery, Cologne, Germany.
  • LA MOCA (Digital Gallery) (curated by: Alma Ruiz), Los Angeles, California, United States.
  • LOOP, Galería Metropolitana, Barcelona, Spain.

2003

  • Art Basel Miami Beach, Galería OMR, Miami, Florida, United States, December.
  • Critical Conditions (curated by: Tim Druckrey), Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
  • Ill Communication (curated by: Rob Tufnell), Dundee Contemporary Art, Dundee, United Kingdom.
  • OPEN: New Designs for Open Space, Van Alen Institute, New York City, New York, United States.
  • Paris Photo (curated by: Daniela Franco), Statement Project Room, Paris, France.
  • Radiant City Exhibition (curated by: Achille Bonito Oliva), Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, Spain.

2002

  • 6th International Festival for Architecture in Video, Florence, Italy.
  • Ars Electronica Festival, OK Centrum, Linz, Austria.
  • Cibervisión 2 (curated by: Karin Ohlenschläger), Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain.
  • E-phos Festival, Athens, Greece.
  • Egofugal (curated by: Yuko Hasegawa), 7th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Emoçao Art.ficial, Itau Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Resonancias, Observatori, Valencia, Spain.
  • Sapphire '02, Atlantico Pavillion, Lisbon, Portugal.

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1999

1998

  • Festival de Video de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
  • Image architettura in movimento, Torino, Italy.
  • Lo Mejor de los dos Mundos, Cuenca, Spain.
  • Viper '98, Webart selection, Lucerne, Switzerland.

1997

  • Arte Virtual, Realidad Plural, Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, México, November - January 1998.
  • Festival Internacional de Info-arquitectura, MOPU, Madrid, Spain.

1996

1995

1993

  • Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Nuremberg, Germany.
  • 2!M VR Exhibition, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
  • ARCO '93, Madrid, Spain.
  • En-red-arte, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain.
  • Tomorrow's Realities, SIGGRAPH'93, Anaheim, California, United States.

1992

  • On the Same Hand but in a Different Vein, Galerie Stornaway, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

1991

1990

Permanent commissions

2021

2020

  • Speaking Willow, Planet World, Washington, D.C., United States, October 22nd.

2019

2018

2017

  • Colorimètre, Maison Manuvie, Montréal, Québec, Canada, November 27th.
  • Bilateral Time Slicer Intermix, 21C Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, April 15th.
  • Pulse Room, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, January 1st.

2016

2014

2013

  • Bifurcation, Phi Centre, Montréal, Québec, Canada, November 15th.

2008

Residencies / Workshops

  • HUMO workshop, Interfacing realities master class, AEC Linz, Linz, Austria, February 2003.
  • Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden, March 2000.
  • SAGAs writing interactive fiction, Munich, Germany, November 1999.
  • Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, México, November 1994.
  • Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, January-June 1993.
  • Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May-November 1990.

Lectures / Presentations

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2011

2010

  • Canadian Centre for Architecture, Théâtre Paul Desmarais, Montréal, Québec, Canada, December 9th.
  • ACMI, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., United States.
  • FPAA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
  • Keynote, CHIN Digital Heritage Symposium, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Keynote, ON.Fire National Media Arts Conference, CBC Glenn Gould studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • USC, Los Angeles, California, United States.
  • Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom.

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2000

1999

  • Consejo de la artes de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, México.

1998

1997

  • Conocimiento del Arte, Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid, Spain.
  • In Art '97, Universidad de Granada, Tenerife, Spain.
  • Jornadas El Objeto Inmaterial, Trasforma, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
  • Keynote, IATM conference, Palacio de Correos, Madrid, Spain.
  • Seminari.

1996

  • ARCO '96, Madrid, Spain.
  • Festival Sonar '96, Barcelona, Spain.
  • In Art '96, Universidad de Granada, Tenerife, Spain.
  • Milia '96, Cannes, France.
  • Seminario Ciberarte, Fundación CAM, Alicante, Valencia y Murcia, Spain.
  • Seminario de Paul Hertz, Valencia, Spain.

1995

1994

1993

  • ARCO '93, Madrid, Spain.
  • Canadian Studies Association, Pamplona, Spain.
  • Communications Department, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
  • Department of Design, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

1992

Performance Art

  • 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan 2009.

Technological Contemporary Dance with Transition State Theory:

  • X'Teresa Arte Alternativo, Mexico City, México, November 1994.
  • Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Nuremberg, Germany, November 1993.
  • SIGGRAPH '93 Festival, Anaheim, California, United States, August 1993.
  • Circulo de Bellas Artes, Sala de Columnas, Madrid, Spain, June 1993.

Performances with Dick Higgins:

  • Storm Riders hörspiel, Danish State Radio, Denmark, October 1992.
  • Several short Fluxus pieces, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 1990.
  • The City that Could performance, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 1990.

Technological Theatres with PoMo CoMo:

  • Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, June 1992.
  • Experimental Intermedia, New York City, New York, United States, December 1991.
  • Artscourt, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, November 1991.
  • Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, October 1990.
  • Hallwalls Gallery Vault, Buffalo, New York, United States, May 1990.
  • The Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 1990.
  • Articule Gallery, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 1988.
  • Learneds Conferences, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada, May 1988.
  • Strategies of Critique, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 1988.

Radio & Radio Art

  • Read my Blips, electroacoustic music piece, International Radio Conference, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 1991.
  • Hysterical Male, radio art piece, AccompaNew Yorking the book of the same name by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker. St. Martin's Press, New York City, New York, United States, December 1990.
  • Radio Art Exhibition, Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 1990.
  • Radia 89.9FM, Radio station manager, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 1990.
  • Printemps Electroacoustique, CBC Radio, Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 1990.
  • New World Perspectives, Montréal, Québec, Canada, August 1989.
  • Co-host and producer of "The Postmodern Commotion" a weekly radio program, CKUT 90.3 FM, Montréal, Québec, Canada 1987.
  • Becoming Nobody, electroacoustic music piece.
  • Panic Encyclopedia Cassette; co-creator with Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Collections

Grants & Awards

  • Compagnon des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Québec, Québec, Canada, June 13th 2016.
  • Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts 2015, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 8th 2015.
  • Event of the Year: Open Air Philadelphia, Philadelphia Geek Awards, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, August 2013.
  • Premio Mentes Quo+Discovery 2013, Quo Magazine and Discovery Channel, Mexico City, México 2013.
  • Joyce Award, The Joyce Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, United States 2012.
  • Knights Arts Challenge for Open Air, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States 2011.
  • National Endowment for the Arts grant for Open Air, Washington, D.C., United States 2011.
  • BAFTA British Academy Award for Interactive Art 2005, London, United Kingdom 2005.
  • Distinction, SFMOMA Webby Awards 2004, San Francisco, California, United States 2004.
  • Artist/Performer of the year, Wired Magazine Rave Awards, San Francisco, California, United States 2003.
  • Best Interactive Installation, HorizonZero, Banff, Alberta, Canada 2003.
  • Foreign Affairs ACA Grant, Canada 2003.
  • Production grant from the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montréal, Québec, Canada 2003.
  • Rockefeller-Ford Fellowship, New York City, New York, United States 2003.
  • Trophée des Lumiéres, Lyon, France 2003.
  • World Technology Network Award for the Arts, San Francisco, California, United States 2003.
  • BAFTA British Academy Award for Interactive Art 2002, London, United Kingdom 2002.
  • Gold Award, Interactive Media Design Review 2002, I.D. Magazine, United States 2002.
  • Interactive Art Distinction, Ars Electronica 2002, Linz, Austria 2002.
  • International Bauhaus Award 2002, 1st Prize, Dessau, Germany 2002.
  • Jury member, Fondation Daniel Langlois, Montréal, Québec, Canada 2001.
  • Media Arts Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada 2001.
  • Excellence Award, Media Arts Festival 2000, CG Arts, Tokyo, Japan 2000.
  • Finalist, Medienkunstpreis 2000, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany 2000.
  • Interactive Art Golden Nica, Ars Electronica 2000, Linz, Austria 2000.
  • Interactive Art Honorable Mention, Ars Electronica 1998, Linz, Austria 1998.
  • Best Installation, Interactive Digital Media Awards 1996, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1996.
  • 2nd Prize, Cyberstar, Köln, Germany, June 1995.
  • Interactive Art Honorable Mention, Ars Electronica 1995, Linz, Austria 1995.
  • Canada Council Computer Integrated Media Grant 1994.
  • Equipment Grant, Communications Canada 1993.
  • Travel Grant, ICEX España 1993.
  • Travel Grant, External Affairs Canada 1992.
  • Bourse circulation, Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec 1991.
  • Canada Council Touring Office Grant 1991.
  • Canadian Consulate Grant, New York City, New York, United States 1991.
  • Canada Council Computer Integrated Media Grant 1990.

Others

  • 5Cyberconf, sponsored by the Art and Technology Foundation, Madrid, Spain, June 1996.
  • Chair and co-organizer, 5th International Conference on Cyberspace 1996.
  • Co-creator and organizer, "Life x.0" International art and a-life competition, sponsored by the Telefónica Foundation, Madrid, Spain 1998 - (ongoing).
  • Curator, "Arte Virtual, 12 Propuestas de Arte Reactivo", Madrid, Spain, May 1994.
  • Grand Jury, Prix Milia d'Or, Cannes, France, January 1995.
  • International Advisory Committee, Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) (ongoing).
  • International Committe, Living in Mixed Realities, GMD conference, Bonn, Germany 2001.
  • International Patent for "System for 3D tracking of a remote point" with Will Bauer - WIPO #9814798A1, January 1998.
  • Jury member, Leonardo Artnodes, Barcelona, Spain 2005.
  • Jury member, Transitios_MX festival, Mexico City, México 2005.
  • Jury member, Fusedspace competition, Netherlands 2004.
  • Jury member, Latinamerican Experimental Hypermedia Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2003.
  • Jury member, Video ARCO '93, Madrid, Spain, February 1993.
  • Research and Creativity Committee, Hexagram, Montréal, Québec, Canada 2003.