Pulse Tank
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Description
Pulse Tank is an Interactive installation where the heart rates of members of the public are detected by sensors and converted into water waves in a ripple tank. A light show is created by the resulting waves and their interaction. To participate, insert your finger into one of the four cylinders on the side of the tank or put your hands flat on the front panel; the computer will detect your pulse and activate a solenoid which will hammer your heart rate onto the tank.


Year of creation
2008
Technique
Heart rate sensors, solenoids, ripple tank, projector, computer.
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Exhibitions
• "Lozano-Hemmer Recent Works", Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneva 2009
• "Prospect.1, New Orleans Bienniale", (curator: Dan Cameron), NOMA Museum, New Orleans, USA, 2008.
• "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", Haunch of Venison, London, UK, 2008.

Video


Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, "Pulse Tank" (2008)
. New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans.


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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, "Pulse Tank" (2008).New Orleans Bienniale, New Orleans.
Photos by Scott Saltzman.


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Credits

Stephan Schulz — Software and Hardware Design
Pierre Fournier, Natalie Bouchard — production support


 
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