MASCARENHAS
  • Home
  • Works
    • 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • Life Series
    • The Beat Series
    • Number Series
    • Visualizing Sound >
      • Hunting Art Prize 2014
      • Homage to Stravinsky
      • Mechanical Nightingale
      • Pas de Deux
    • Etudes
    • Variations in Wax
    • Variations Vibrations Series
  • Bio/Statement
  • CV
  • Contact
  • New Page

"Pulse Index": Rafael Lozano-Hemmer @ the Hirschhorn

5/30/2019

0 Comments

 
-  An interactive installation that records participants finger prints at the same time as their heart rates.  To participate, people introduce their finger print into a custom-made sensor equipped with a digital microscope and a heart rate sensor; their finger print immediately appears on the largest cell of the display pulsating to their heart beat.
-  The piece displays data from the last 10,952 participants in a stepped display organized along a fibonacci distribution.  As new recordings are added, the oldest ones disappear.  
-  Fibonacci sequence:  The Fibonacci Sequence is the series of numbers: 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,.... the next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it.  
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

    Archives

    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed