You may get the unsettling feeling you’re being watched at Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s new show at the Powerhouse Museum. That’s because you are., the Mexican Canadian artist’s latest exhibition, which is designed to make air into something tangible.Janie Barrett
Babbage wanted to harness everything spoken in the past. It may sound poetic, but encompasses the ugly side of history too.“[He mentioned] slave owners getting away with murder,” Lozano-Hemmer says. “All of their deeds are being recorded in the atmosphere, and one day we’ll be able to find evidence of wrongdoing and seek justice.”
In the exhibition, you’ll find machines that turn speech into water ripples , and one spectacular work that takes spoken words from the public and transforms them into three-dimensional water mist , anda vessel containing Babbage’s treatise printed on pieces of gold just 150 atoms thick.