Events
Monday 5 December, 6.30 – 8.00pm
The Studio, Sydney Opera House
Hear Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer speak about his recent interactive installations in public spaces.
These include Voz Alta, a memorial for the Tlatelolco student massacre in Mexico City, Levels of Nothingness, a performance for the 50th anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum in NYC and Vectorial Elevation, a project restaged for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival and animatronics, his light and shadow works are “antimonuments for alien agency”.
$15 for MCA Members
$10 for Concessions
Book online by visiting www.sydneyoperahouse.com
or call 02 9250 7777
Presented with support from Arts NSW.
Saturday 17 December 2.00 – 3.00pm
MCA Level 3 Galleries
Hear artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in his only free Sydney talk as he discusses the ideas and processes behind his works in the exhibition Recorders.
FREE
Presented with support from the Consulate General of Spain, Sydney
Lucy Moore
Saturday 14 January 2.00 – 3.00pm
MCA Level 3 Galleries
Lozano-Hemmer’s creative works are much more than just fun. Join Lucy Moore, MCA Curatorial Assistant, as she discusses the artist’s interest in using technology to create connective, critical or poetic experiences.
FREE
Mark Brown
Saturday 21 January 2.00 – 3.00pm
MCA Level 3 Galleries
Discover the logistical and technical challenges within Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s artworks with Mark Brown, MCA Audio Visual Coordinator and artist, including how many people it takes to install 100 light bulbs!
FREE
Dr Keir Winesmith
Saturday 28 January 2.00 – 3.00pm
MCA Level 3 Galleries
Explore the interactive technology behind Lozano-Hemmer’s artworks, including how video footage of you (and almost 800 other people) is used to create a person’s silhouette, with Dr Keir Winesmith, MCA’s Manager of Digital Media.
FREE
Dr Gavin J.D. Smith
Saturday 11 February 2.00 – 3.00pm
MCA Level 3 Galleries
Surveillance has become a major technique in the everyday organisation and orchestration of social life. Central to surveillance operation are the acts of watching and being watched and these experiential processes are now deeply entrenched in the artistic imagination.
Join Dr Gavin J. D. Smith, Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy and Convenor of The Surveillance and Everyday Life Research Group, as he discusses the social and political contribution of Rafael Lozano Hemmer’s Recorders exhibition and its relationship with contemporary theoretical articulations of surveillance.
FREE
Guided tours of the exhibition are held every weekday at 11am & 1pm, and on weekends at 11am, 1pm & 3pm. No booking required.
FREE