Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
@errafael.bsky.social
Benjamin Duffield's feature documentary on my public art is finally available online! "Megalodemocrat" (2019) was shot over ten years, when I still had hair, and it shows behind the scenes of making my interactive installations. Watch it for free here:
vimeo.com/233836122
vimeo.com/233836122
MEGALODEMOCRAT: The Public Art of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
SYNOPSIS: Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer started making public art in 1992, using high-power audiovisual media to help him transform cities around…
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October 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Benjamin Duffield's feature documentary on my public art is finally available online! "Megalodemocrat" (2019) was shot over ten years, when I still had hair, and it shows behind the scenes of making my interactive installations. Watch it for free here:
vimeo.com/233836122
vimeo.com/233836122
This Thursday at Rocket Science Room in Montreal: Krzysztof Wodiczko and Ewa Harabasz in conversation www.instagram.com/p/DKU5G-8xW17/
June 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This Thursday at Rocket Science Room in Montreal: Krzysztof Wodiczko and Ewa Harabasz in conversation www.instagram.com/p/DKU5G-8xW17/
Reposted by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
The private sector will not fill the gaps. The size of the cuts is too big, and the incentives does not align to do basic research or train the next generation of PhD students.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
May 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The private sector will not fill the gaps. The size of the cuts is too big, and the incentives does not align to do basic research or train the next generation of PhD students.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
A few more days left to apply for this full-time position at my studio. Join an incredible team of people working along progressive, open, fun, ambitious, international projects! is.gd/Qe8uTH
Personal Assistant to Rafael Lozano-Hemmer | Notion
Mar 14, 2024 — English version follows French
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March 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A few more days left to apply for this full-time position at my studio. Join an incredible team of people working along progressive, open, fun, ambitious, international projects! is.gd/Qe8uTH
My dear assistant Gabriel Rizzotti is moving to Paris. So now I’m looking for a new PA. We have a tight deadline to hire someone full-time as we want them to overlap with Gabriel as much as possible. Please help me circulate this job posting to any potential candidates out there!
is.gd/Qe8uTH
is.gd/Qe8uTH
Personal Assistant to Rafael Lozano-Hemmer | Notion
Mar 14, 2024 — English version follows French
is.gd
March 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
My dear assistant Gabriel Rizzotti is moving to Paris. So now I’m looking for a new PA. We have a tight deadline to hire someone full-time as we want them to overlap with Gabriel as much as possible. Please help me circulate this job posting to any potential candidates out there!
is.gd/Qe8uTH
is.gd/Qe8uTH
Just a few weeks since we had this talk in NYC and reality is already far more harrowing than we expected then, —and we are a pessimistic group. Time to light up the flares! www.artforum.com/video/artfor...
Atelier December 2024
Artforum introduces a series of live panel conversations between artists, critics, curators, and other voices in contemporary art.
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March 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Just a few weeks since we had this talk in NYC and reality is already far more harrowing than we expected then, —and we are a pessimistic group. Time to light up the flares! www.artforum.com/video/artfor...
New issue of Amodern on “Countertype”, illustrated with our generative typeface for Encode/Decode. amodern.net
Amodern
Amodern is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to the study of media, culture, and poetics.
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March 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
New issue of Amodern on “Countertype”, illustrated with our generative typeface for Encode/Decode. amodern.net
Reposted by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.
Trump, with Netanyahu sitting next to him, says "Gaza maybe is a demolition site right now ... you can't live in Gaza right now. I think we need another location."
February 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.
New artwork "Binocular Tension", belongs to the series of interactive pieces I have been making since 1992(!) related to surveillance, observing observation, and making eye contact. The piece will be presented by PACE Gallery @pacegallery.bsky.social at ZonaMaco art fair in Mexico City.
February 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
New artwork "Binocular Tension", belongs to the series of interactive pieces I have been making since 1992(!) related to surveillance, observing observation, and making eye contact. The piece will be presented by PACE Gallery @pacegallery.bsky.social at ZonaMaco art fair in Mexico City.
Reposted by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.
February 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.
I love Chrystia Freeland's proposal that Canada should put tariffs on Teslas.
January 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I love Chrystia Freeland's proposal that Canada should put tariffs on Teslas.
As always, learning from Kate Crawford: I can’t believe I’d never heard of Jevon’s Paradox.
DeepSeek forces a rethink of the compute & energy costs of AI models. In a new paper with @sashamtl.bsky.social @strubell.bsky.social, we look at the full environmental impacts of AI – both direct and indirect – and what 𝐉e𝐯𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱 means for AI and climate. A thread 🧵
January 31, 2025 at 3:58 AM
As always, learning from Kate Crawford: I can’t believe I’d never heard of Jevon’s Paradox.
Reposted by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Hi. Jewish person here. These are concentration camps and should be called that by everyone.
Trump: Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of defense and homeland security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay
January 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Hi. Jewish person here. These are concentration camps and should be called that by everyone.
First time flying into Gilead, stopped by immigration for the first time in a decade.
January 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
First time flying into Gilead, stopped by immigration for the first time in a decade.
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
The more awards Emilia Pérez gets the more I hate the film.
January 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The more awards Emilia Pérez gets the more I hate the film.
We work too hard.
We're too tired to fall in love.
Therefore we must overthrow the government.
We work too hard.
We're too tired to overthrow the government.
Therefore we must fall in love.
—Rod Smith, "Pour le CG7" Poem sent to me by Antimodular's Michael Nardone
We're too tired to fall in love.
Therefore we must overthrow the government.
We work too hard.
We're too tired to overthrow the government.
Therefore we must fall in love.
—Rod Smith, "Pour le CG7" Poem sent to me by Antimodular's Michael Nardone
January 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We work too hard.
We're too tired to fall in love.
Therefore we must overthrow the government.
We work too hard.
We're too tired to overthrow the government.
Therefore we must fall in love.
—Rod Smith, "Pour le CG7" Poem sent to me by Antimodular's Michael Nardone
We're too tired to fall in love.
Therefore we must overthrow the government.
We work too hard.
We're too tired to overthrow the government.
Therefore we must fall in love.
—Rod Smith, "Pour le CG7" Poem sent to me by Antimodular's Michael Nardone
January 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
We made a short video documenting the Dark Ride performance
vimeo.com/1047647002
vimeo.com/1047647002
Dark Ride - Miami to Naples - 2024
Dark Ride was a sound-art performance conceived by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in 2016 for Laumeier Sculpture Park in St-Louis. The piece was initially intended as a "social…
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January 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
We made a short video documenting the Dark Ride performance
vimeo.com/1047647002
vimeo.com/1047647002
There was a time when I could recite every line from Blue Velvet. RIP David Lynch, you were not supposed to die yet! "What year is this?"
January 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
There was a time when I could recite every line from Blue Velvet. RIP David Lynch, you were not supposed to die yet! "What year is this?"
Reposted by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?
January 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?
Quisiera hacer un musical llamado “Louis Bernard” sobre el saqueo colonial de Francia en Polinesia, con un gran final explosivo: bombas atómicas devastando Mururora, Fangataufa y otras islas. Salvo un par de actores indígenas Ma’ohi, el resto del elenco será Mexicano. La música será de Lila Downs.
January 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Quisiera hacer un musical llamado “Louis Bernard” sobre el saqueo colonial de Francia en Polinesia, con un gran final explosivo: bombas atómicas devastando Mururora, Fangataufa y otras islas. Salvo un par de actores indígenas Ma’ohi, el resto del elenco será Mexicano. La música será de Lila Downs.
Channeling Ursula Le Guin: “The path to a better future is treacherous”.
December 29, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Channeling Ursula Le Guin: “The path to a better future is treacherous”.