Redundant assembly by Raphael Lozano Hemmer

Redundant assembly by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer on the Ste-Catherine street, KM3, 2017

Project(s)
  • KM3
Production type
  • Installations
Installation date
August 30th, 2017
Redundant Assembly is an interactive installation that uses biometric techniques to detect and record the faces of passersby on Sainte-Catherine Street.

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Project

KM3

The portraits appear on six storefront windows, the live images of participants perfectly overlapping with the faces of previous visitors, creating composite portraits that are constantly fluctuating between one person and another, past and present. Facial recognition technology is often used to identify individuals, but here Lozano-Hemmer uses it to opposite ends, concealing private identity in a collective portrait.

 

CREDITS

Concept, direction: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Programming: Stephan Schulz
Production support: Karine Charbonneau, Miguel Legault, Guillaume Tremblay, Kitae Kim, Marc Lavallée, Carolina Murillo Morales, and Andreas Schmelas

Partner: UQAM

More information: lozano-hemmer.com

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