Border Tuner

Now exists as an artwork, film, book and archive.

There is a book and film launch tour happening presently, please check the events page for more information. 

An interactive public art installation across the US-Mexico border by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.

Open to the public

November 13 - 24, 2019

Every night, 6:30 to 11:00 PM

Bowie High School, El Paso and

Parque Chamizal, Ciudad Juárez

Three interactive stations on each side of the border will control powerful searchlight beams using a small dial wheel. When lights from any two stations are directed at each other, microphones and speakers automatically switch-on to allow participants to talk with one another, creating cross-border conversations.

The project is curated by Kerry Doyle and León de la Rosa, with programming direction by Edgar Picazo. While a diverse schedule of invited guests will open the installation each evening, everybody is welcome to participate for free.

More information on the concept of the project.

Each voice is a bridge - León de la Rosa

Rafael is the creator of entertaining, technologically inspired, interactive creations that people line up to try, and at the same time, a somewhat macabre intellectual with a penchant for social criticism. - Ted Loos, New York Times

Lozano-Hemmer's "Voz Alta" is one of the brightest social interventions in Latinamerican Art. I say this to transmit the excitement of experimenting a new form of interaction alternative to the authoritarian space of mass media. - Cuauhtémoc Medina, Reforma