Rafael Lozano-Hemmer on Seductive Participation and the Oppression of Metrics

Can an artist engage with surveillance technologies without being complicit in their uses for control and oppression? Audiences tend to treat interactive works as a fun spectacle, a chance to take a selfie. So how do artists clarify their position? How do they present their work as commentary, rather than mere reproduction?
I posed this question to Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, whose installations make extensive use of motion sensors, facial recognition, and other tools for collecting biometric data. &l