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Michael Rakowitz (b. 1973, New York) is an artist based in Chicago, whose art combines objects, interactive installations and public interventions. In 1998 he initiated paraSITE, an ongoing project in which the artist custom builds inflatable shelters for homeless people that attach to the exterior outtake vents of a building’s heating, ventilation, or air conditioning system ("Climate Control System"). His work has appeared in the documenta 13, the 16th Biennale of Sydney, the 10th Istanbul Biennial, Sharjah Biennial 8, Tirana Biennale, National Design Triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt, and Transmediale 05.