In Caudales, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer intervenes, through eight installations, the condition of a culture made of unstable writings which, at the time that empower a state of computer vigilance, define a culture characterized by the interaction of automation and generative animation. In this show, the written word – being a poem, a philosophic text or a media report–   transmutes into an unstable fluid that streams in turbulent manners, creating transitory patterns and objective interpretations.

In the series Recurrencies (2018-2022), texts by Ramon Llul, Stuart Hall, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Francisco Sanches and Julio Cortázar, feed diverse generative animations that is characteristic, whereas in the screen or physically, for avoiding repetition. In 1984 x 1984 (2014) thousands of random numbers extracted from addresses photographed by Google Street View are recomposed, due to the interaction with the users, writing the numeral which George Orwell vaticinated as the date of the collapse of privacy. In Airborne Newscasts 20 (2013) our observed bodies intervene the flux of news that cross the social media, accelerating information’s volatility. Finally, two pieces are presented in a global premiere, in All the waters (2022) a robot arm constantly writes the name of brand names for bottled water to be evaporated. In Recurrent First Dream (2022) a chandelier made of 45 suspended flat-screens arranged as a 3D spiral paraboloid forms an ascending vortex of words slowly revealing Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s mangum opus “First Dream”, written in 1692.