Public Art Review (March 2013)
In “Social Media as Art,” Public Art Review highlights Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s OPEN AIR (as well as Conrad Gleber and Gail Rubini’s My Alaska, Too) to illustrate how artists are using mobile technologies and social media in their work. Commissioned by the Association for Public Art, OPEN AIR was an interactive light installation that combined mobile technology and participants’ voices to activate 24 robotic searchlights along Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway from September 20 – October 14, 2012.