Shadow Tuner by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Shadow Tuner2023

Spherical LED display, depth cameras, speakers, powdered coated stainless steel base, custom software, power distributor, sound card, video controller, computers, amplifiers31.5 in / 80 cm, diameter
67 in / 170 cm, heightEdition of 6, 1 AP

Shadow Tuner is a new interactive artwork, first presented on a huge spherical balloon as a public art installation in Abu Dhabi. The piece is a digital globe that links to thousands of geo-located radio stations that playback when a visitor is in front of them. Like the artist’s pioneering installation Frequency and Volume (2003), the body of the visitor becomes the antenna or tuning dial to scan for sound signals, only instead of scanning the local radioelectric spectrum, Shadow Tuner offers a global polyphony of live streams. The piece has a built-in AI analyzer so that spoken word content gets priority over music, thereby highlighting world language diversity.

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