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The Year's Midnight (Shadow Box 5)
The Year's Midnight (Shadow Box 5)

The Year's Midnight (Shadow Box 5)

Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Mexican, active in Canada, born 1967
Date2011
MediumHD plasma screen, computer, camera, and software for high-resolution interactive display with built-in computerized surveillance system
Dimensions55 x 31 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (139.7 x 80 x 12.1 cm)
ClassificationsTime Based Media
Credit LinePurchased with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes in honor of Dr. Emily Farnham and Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, and with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest), by exchange
Object number2012.9a-h
On View
On view
ProvenanceProbably created Montreal, 2011; collection of the artist; sold to NCMA, 2012.Published References0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh and Penland, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art and Penland School of Crafts, 2013), cat. no. 47, illus. (color) 103; also listed and illus. (color), 136.

North Carolina Museum of art Preview (Spring 2013), illus. (color) cover.

David Menconi, “’Real-time interaction’ with art,” Raleigh: News and Observer (April 14, 2013), discussed 1D and 6D, illus. (color) 1D.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “0 to 60: The Experience of Time Through Contemporary Art,” March 24–August 11, 2013, cat. no. 47, illus. (color) 103; also listed and illus. (color) 136.

Virginia Beach, VA, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, “charged,” September 21, 2019–February 16, 2020.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–December 5, 2023.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," December 19, 2023-present.
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