Pulse Room, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, 2006

Pulse Room in Aarhus, Denmark,2009

Pulse Room 2006

About 100 (analog/classic) light bulbs are hung from ceiling of the installation site.

The bulbs plays a sequence of blinking. Every singe bulb represents and actually repeats heartbeat of past participants as 1 by 1 correspondence.

Sequence of how new participant joins is as following.

One of audience grabs a handle which heartbeat sensor is embedded.

It takes a short while until the sensor stabilize its readout. When it is done, whole order of pulses of bulbs shifts 1 (the oldest is now gone). And the new beat joins.

(Aug 2011)

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

From Wikipedia

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born in 1967 in Mexico City) is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who works with ideas from architecture, technological theater and performance. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montreal. Currently, Lozano-Hemmer lives and works in Montréal and Madrid.

 


Interaction/Relation Light and person correspondence

Christen Boltanski at Naoshima/Teshima
Rafael … Pulse lights
Miyajima at Naoshima

Find the root of this way of participation.

Remember salt lake project seen at Tate modern