Rafael Lozano-Hemmer versión en español

Conference Chair

Biography:

Media artist, works in telepresence, technological theatre, installation and performance art. His work has been shown in over a dozen countries, including the Musée d'art contemporain (Montreal), the ARCO art fair (Madrid), the National Arts Centre (México), the European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück), Karlstad University (Sweden), Akademie der Bildenden Kunste (Nuremberg), Music Gallery (Toronto), Musée du Québec (Québec), Hallwalls Gallery (Buffalo) and SIGGRAPH'93 (Anaheim). He has given many workshops and conferences, among them: ARCO 93 and 96, Art Futura 95, Universidad Complutense (Madrid); Milia 95 and 96 (Cannes); Universidad Politécnica and Fundación CAM (Valencia); Ciber-ría (Bilbao); UNAM, UAM, CONACYT and Anthropology Museum (México DF); Tecnológico de Monterrey (Monterrey); Concordia University and Oboro Gallery (Montreal); York University and Ontario College of Art (Toronto). He has been guest editor for Leonardo Magazine and corresponding editor for Mediamatic Interactive Publishing in Amsterdam. His writing has been published in Kunstforum (Germany), Bioapparatus (Canada), Telepolis (Germany), Ars Electronica catalogs (Austria) and other art and media publications. He has been in several international juries, including the Prix Milia d'Or for multimedia publishing in Cannes. He curated "Arte Virtual: Doce Propuestas de Arte Reactivo" an electronic art exhibition in an old subway station in Madrid. He has been a resident artist at the Banff Centre in Canada. His telepresence piece "The Trace" was awarded an honorable mention for interactive art at the 1995 Ars Electronica Festival, won an interactive digital media award in Toronto, and received a Cyberstar award given by German TV WDR and the VR centre GMD in Bonn. He received his B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montréal. He is sad to have forgotten most of what he learnt, remembering only his thesis' title: "Ester Cleavage by Cyclodextrins in Aqueous Dimethyl Sulfoxide Mixtures: Substrate Binding versus Transition State Binding", published by the Journal of Organic Chemistry, 59, 7602-7608. 1994. Search the Web Leonardo - Cyberstar - Mediamatic Interactive Publishing - Milia - Portraits in Cyberspace - Interface - Puente Abierto - Telepolis