Pulse Index
"Pulse Index" is an interactive installation that records participants’ fingerprints at the same time as it detects their heart rates. The piece displays data for the last 765 and over participants in a stepped display that creates a horizon line of skin. To participate, people introduce their finger into a custom-made sensor equipped with a 220x digital microscope and a heart rate sensor; their fingerprint immediately appears on the largest cell of the display, pulsating to their heart beat. As more people try the piece one’s own recording travels upwards until it disappears altogether —a kind of memento mori using fingerprints, the most commonly used biometric image for identification.
The project exists in a small plasma version which features a 58 inch HD screen hung in portrait mode and in a large projection version which can be as large as desired.
General info
Standalone version
Treatment version
Exhibitions
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Latidos, Arte Abierto, Mexico City, México, 2020.
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., United States, 2018 - 2019.
- Üvercinka A Selection from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018 - 2019.
- Message from Our Planet, Orange Door Chicago - Thoma Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 2018 - 2019.
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Decision Forest, Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, 2018.
- New Media, New Millennium: Digital Art from the Thoma Foundation, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States, 2018.
- Virtual Views: Digital Art from the Thoma Foundation, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, United States, 2017.
- Blood, Science Gallery Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2017.
- Virtual Views: Digital Art from the Thoma Foundation, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, 2017.
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Preabsence, Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2016.
- Global Control and Censorship , Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2015 - 2016.
- Luminous Flux v2.0, Thoma Foundation - Art House, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, 2015 - 2016.
- Art Dubai, Carroll / Fletcher Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2015.
- Blood, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2014 - 2015.
- Luminous Flux, Thoma Foundation, Art House, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, 2014 - 2016.
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Vicious Circular Breathing, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013 - 2014.
- Collective II, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Genève, Switzerland, 2013.
- 0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, 2013.
- Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, United States, 2013.
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Trackers, Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012.
- Focal Points: Art and Photography, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2012 - 2013.
- Time-Lapse, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, 2012.
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Recorders, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 2011 - 2012 (projection).
- Borusan Contemporary, Perili Köşk, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011.
- Extimidad, Es Baluard Museum, Palma, Spain, 2011.
- Pulse Show, Beall Center, University of California, Irvine, California, United States, 2010 - 2011.
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Recorders, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2010 - 2011.
- Art Basel 41, Galería OMR, Basel, Switzerland, 2010.
- Vigilancias Materializadas, Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain, 2010.
Credits
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer – Concept, direction, visuals
- Conroy Badger - Programming
- Stephan Schulz, David Lemieux, Karine Charbonneau, Pierre Fournier - Antimodular production
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