Please touch the art

19 Dec 2011, 11:27 am   -   Source: SBS Staff - Michelle Hanna
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Visitors to art museums are usually told not to touch the work. But at a new exhibition in Sydney, one artist requesting the opposite - otherwise the artwork won't exist.

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Visitors to art museums are usually told not to touch the work. But at a new exhibition in Sydney, one artist is requesting the opposite - otherwise the artwork won't exist.


Visitors to this exhibition are asked to leave traces of themselves - a fingerprint, a voice message, a typed question - even a shadow.

Mexican-born, Canadian-based Rafael Lozano-Hemmer subverts complex robotics and advanced surveillance technologies.

”A lot of these technologies are there to control people, to detect them and to assume suspicion”, says Lozano-Hemmer. “And what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to mis-use those technologies to create alternatives of how we can establish relationships with each other.”

Each impression is recorded in a database, becoming a part of the artwork.

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