Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a Mexican-Canadian artist who works with ideas from architecture, technology and performance. He creates platforms for public participation using technologies such as robotic lights, digital fountains, computerized surveillance, media walls, and telematic networks. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival, and animatronics, his light and shadow works are "antimonuments for alien agency". His participatory public art has been commissioned for events such as the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004), the Tlatelolco Massacre Memorial in Mexico City (2008), the Vancouver Olympics (2010), the Raurica Roman Theatre in Basel (2018) and the Covid Memorial at the Brooklyn Museum (2021). In 2007, he was the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale. He has also shown in Biennales in Sydney, Liverpool, Kochi, Mercosul, Istanbul, Habana, New Orleans, Shanghai, Singapore and many others. In 2019 his interactive installation “Border Tuner” connected people across the US-Mexico border using bridges of light controlled by the voices of participants. Collections holding his work include MoMA in New York, NGV in Melbourne, Tate in London, SFMOMA in San Francisco, MAC in Montreal, Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, and MUAC in Mexico City.