Amodal.net, text that illuminates one place.

Rafael Lozano Hemmer is an artist who has long specialized in the interaction between its research and public use and electronic technologies, creating a unique path that has materialized in the seminal installations Vectorial Elevation , before and Body Movies onwards. These have consecrated its ability to engage audiences and impressive architecture in a symbiotic relationship, in which trigger new relationships between people and public facilities. Amodal.net is his latest effort and was inaugurated at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (ycam ). It consists of a pattern of light cast in the sky that are controlled by the public through text messages sent from mobile phones (SMS) or the Internet, modulating the light intensity to reproduce the differences between the Western and Japanese characters. Messages sent in both languages ​​and translated from English to Japanese and vice versa in a deliberately inaccurate are played in a loop until they are decoded by someone else who sends the text interpreted through the aforementioned technologies. To ensure, finally, a real global interaction, the editors Yukiko Shikata and Kazunao Abe were able to ensure for the whole duration of the project numerous access points in many specialized media center scattered across the globe, thus realizing a concrete network d 'interest capable of conditioning with its telepresence the appearance of a remote place, the seat of a different community.