Lozano-Hemmer
1 Mar
Beautifully simple. His other work seems a bit overwhelmed by tech and the ideas are a bit inscrutable to be emotionally resonant for my taste, but he’s done a lot of work and I haven’t looked at it all.
Pulse Room is an interactive installation featuring one to three hundred clear incandescent light bulbs, 300W each and hung from a cable at a height of three metres. An interface placed on a side of the room has a sensor that detects the heart rate of participants. When someone holds the interface, a computer detects his or her pulse and immediately sets off the closest bulb to flash at the exact rhythm of his or her heart. The moment the interface is released all the lights turn off briefly and the flashing sequence advances by one position down the queue, to the next bulb in the grid. Each time someone touches the interface a heart pattern is recorded and this is sent to the first bulb in the grid, pushing ahead all the existing recordings. At any given time the installation shows the recordings from the most recent participants.
See the videos for a better rendering of what the room does.
