Subtitled Public: Documentary Collection

Interview with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Interview with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer / Produced by the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology; interviewers: Lizzie Muller, Caitlin Jones; camera: Paul Kuranko (1 hr. 2 min.). Interview conducted October 2007 in Montreal.

Question 1 Introduction to the interactive experience of Subtitled Public	Question 2 The conceptual impulse behind Subtitled Public
Question 3 Experiential intentions	Question 4 Discrepancies between artist intent and audience experience
Question 5 Discrepancies between artist intent and audience experience as a failure	Question 6 Installation parameters: room dimensions
Question 7 Installation parameters: projector angle	Question 8 Installation parameters: lighting levels
Question 9 Installation parameters: didactic materials	Question 10 Hardware: projector resolution
Question 11 Hardware: limitations of original hardware and conceptual result	Question 12 Software: font style and size
Question 13 Software: artist’s relationship to the code	Question 14 Software: language and diversity
Question 15 Versioning: 2D and 3D	Question 16 Versioning: camera reveal
Question 17 Experiential moment of ‘exchange’ of words	Question 18 Artist’s own documentation
Question 19 Artist’s questions about audience interaction	Question 20 Multiple layers of audience interaction (“multiple entry points”)