Rain Room

Rain Room

Random International’s Rain Room (2012) is an immersive environment of perpetually falling water that pauses wherever a human body is detected. The installation offers visitors an opportunity to experience what is seemingly impossible: the ability to control rain. Rain Room presents a respite from everyday life and an opportunity for sensory reflection within a responsive relationship.

Founded in 2005, Random International is a collaborative studio for experimental practice. They use science and technology to create experiences that aim to question and challenge the human experience within a machine-led world, engaging viewers through explorations of behavior and natural phenomena. In the decade following the studio's inception, the focus of Random International’s artistic practice has continuously evolved and today encompasses sculpture, performance, and installation on an architectural scale.

Random International’s Rain Room (2012) is an immersive environment of perpetually falling water that pauses wherever a human body is detected. The installation offers visitors an opportunity to experience what is seemingly impossible: the ability to control rain. Rain Room presents a respite from everyday life and an opportunity for sensory reflection within a responsive relationship.

Founded in 2005, Random International is a collaborative studio for experimental practice. They use science and technology to create experiences that aim to question and challenge the human experience within a machine-led world, engaging viewers through explorations of behavior and natural phenomena. In the decade following the studio's inception, the focus of Random International’s artistic practice has continuously evolved and today encompasses sculpture, performance, and installation on an architectural scale.

Rain Room is organized by LACMA and is on display courtesy of RH, Restoration Hardware.

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Rain Room is part of The Hyundai Project: Art + Technology at LACMA, a joint initiative exploring the convergence of art and technology.

Additional funding provided by Mehran and Laila Taslimi, Susanne Taslimi and Shidan Taslimi. 

All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support is provided by Kitzia and Richard Goodman, with generous annual funding from Janet Chann and Michael Irwin in memory of George Chann, Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, Emily and Teddy Greenspan, Jenna and Jason Grosfeld, Lenore and Richard Wayne, and the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation.

Image: Random International, Rain Room (2012) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Restoration Hardware, Rain Room design, © 2012 Hannes Koch, Florian Ortkrass, and Stuart Wood, photo © Jan Bitter

• Nov 1, 2015–Jan 22, 2017
• BCAM, Level 1

Rain Room is organized by LACMA and is on display courtesy of RH, Restoration Hardware.

Presented by:

​​

Major support provided by:

Rain Room is part of The Hyundai Project: Art + Technology at LACMA, a joint initiative exploring the convergence of art and technology.

Additional funding provided by Mehran and Laila Taslimi, Susanne Taslimi and Shidan Taslimi. 

All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support is provided by Kitzia and Richard Goodman, with generous annual funding from Janet Chann and Michael Irwin in memory of George Chann, Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, Emily and Teddy Greenspan, Jenna and Jason Grosfeld, Lenore and Richard Wayne, and the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation.

Image: Random International, Rain Room (2012) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Restoration Hardware, Rain Room design, © 2012 Hannes Koch, Florian Ortkrass, and Stuart Wood, photo © Jan Bitter

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