Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was born in Mexico City in 1967 and is currently a faculty associate of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

Lozano-Hemmer is a multi-media installation artist who creates large-scale interactive works inspired by video, architecture and technological innovations. This work, an interactive video entitled “Make-Out,” includes three large computer monitors and employs motion sensors to detect movement from viewers standing in front of the screens. The background imagery is made from thousands of tiny videos of a variety of couples as they passionately kiss. When viewers move in front of the artwork, the video is activated, the couples begin to kiss and the viewers’ silhouettes appear on the monitors. The work becomes a commentary on the complexity of human sexuality and relationships in the digital age.

Solo exhibitions include