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.
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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.
Michelle Hanna has more.
