The Baker Museum presents In Tangible Noise
Artist Talk featuring Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
in conversation with Michael Nardone
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, artist Michael Nardone, art critic
For over three decades, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has integrated art, science, architecture and technology into his trailblazing artistic practice. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Obra Sonora includes monumental works such as Atmosphonia, a sound and light environment featuring 3,000 audio channels playing back natural field recordings; Volute 2, a speech bubble presented as an oversized aluminum sculpture; and Sphere Packing: Bach, a 10-foot diameter sphere that supports 1,128 loudspeakers—each playing a different composition by Johann Sebastian Bach. This will be the first museum exhibition to explore Lozano-Hemmer’s use of sound as a medium of expression and image-making.
Join artist Lozano-Hemmer in a conversation with critic Michael Nardone, whose writings on poetics, media and sound have appeared in numerous books, journals and scholarly publications.
All exhibition lecture tickets include same-day admission to The Baker Museum.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a media artist who creates platforms for public participation by using robotic lights, digital fountains, computerized surveillance and telematic networks. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival and animatronics, his interactive works are “anti-monuments for people to self-represent.” He was the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale in 2007. He has also shown at other art biennials such as Havana, Istanbul, Kochi, Liverpool, Melbourne, New Orleans, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Wuzhen. His works are in collections around the world such as MoMA, Guggenheim, TATE, Reina Sofía, Hirshhorn, MUAC and MONA. Major recent solo exhibitions include Unstable Presence, co-produced by the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal and SFMOMA; Listening Forest, installed over 120 acres of land at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Common Measures at PACE Gallery, New York; and Translation Island, a 2-kilometer route that included 10 public artworks on Lulu Island, Abu Dhabi.
Michael Nardone
Michael Nardone
Michael Nardone is a writer and editor based in Montreal. His recent and forthcoming works include Aural Poetics (an edited work on sound and composition across the arts), Convivialities (a book of dialogues), Yellow Towel: A Score (a collaboration with choreographer Dana Michel), the Documents on Expanded Poetics book series (which he co-edits), The Transatlantic Conversation (a translation of Abigail Lang’s monograph on contemporary French and U.S. poetry) and The Ritualites (a book of poems), as well as a range of essays and editorial works concerning the literary arts and other inscriptive practices. A former postdoctoral fellow at the Université de Montréal and visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, he is presently writer-in-residence at the SETI Institute.
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