Reporteros con fronteras, Caja de sombras # 62007 / Interactive Video InstallationRafael Lozano-Hemmer The Shadow Box series of works are interactive displays with a built in computerized tracking system. Derived from Lozano-Hemmer's interest in portraiture, surveillance and phantasmagoria, they are autonomous artworks but often are used as "platforms" or "digital sketches" for larger installations or environments. Reporters with Borders is the sixth piece in the Shadow Box series, this interactive display simultaneously shows 875 video clips of news anchors taken from TV broadcasts in the United States and Mexico. As the viewer stands in front of the piece his or her silhouette is shown on the display and within it all reporters begin to talk. Every 3 minutes the piece switches the videoclips - from a database of 1600 - and classifies them along gender, race and country, so that for instance on the left there are only American reporters and on the right only Mexicans. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born 1967, Mexico City) received a B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montréal in 1989. As a "Canada Electronic artist" he develops large-scale interactive installations in public space as well as new technologies and custom-made physical interfaces. He uses robotics, projections, sound, internet and cellphone links, sensors and other devices. His installations aim to provide "temporary antimonuments for alien agency". His work has been commissioned for events such as the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the Cultural Capital of Europe in Rotterdam (2001), the United Nations' World Summit of Cities in Lyon (2003), the opening of the Yamaguchi Centre for Art and Media in Japan (2003) and the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004). His kinetic sculptures, responsive environments, video installations and photography have been shown in two dozen countries, including Art Basel Unlimited (Switzerland), the Sydney Biennale (Australia), the Liverpool Biennial (UK), the Shanghai Biennial (China), the Itaú Cultural (Brazil), the Istanbul Biennial (Turkey), the ARCO art fair (Spain), Bienal de la Habana (Cuba), Architecture and Media Biennale (Austria), Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico), the Musée des Beaux Arts (Canada), European Media Art Festival (Germany) and others. His work is in private and public contemporary art collections such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Jumex collection in Mexico and the Daros Foundation in Zürich. · www.lozano-hemmer.com/  Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Reporteros con fronteras, Caja de sombras # 6, 2007, Interactive Video Installation, 30’’ Apple Cinema Display, Apple Computer, digital camera, loaned by the artist |