Herzfassen (take heart)

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Abstract

A bowl is filled with water. By taking hold of it by the handles, it becomes literally moved by the rhythm of your heart. Water becomes storage for discrete information and makes it visible. It starts pulsating with your heartbeat. When you touch the object with only one hand, the water stays calm. When holding both handles, the water starts vibrating. Your heartbeat is calculated through the handles' measurement of your skin-resistance and then assigned to the water's pulsation. The heartbeat is now stored and the water will 'beat' with this rhythm until the pulsation slowly abates. At the end the water is calm and discharged again, unless the bowl is touched by a new person to whom whose heartbeat it would set itself to. It then beats with another's heart.

Artists / Authors

• Monika Hoinkis, author/artist, Udk Berlin

Cooperators

• Joachim Sauter, Professor, Udk Berlin
• Frank Fietzek, Visiting Professor, UdK Berlin
• Heinz Jeron, associate Professor, Udk Berlin

Origination

Germany, 2004-2005

Partners / Sponsors

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URL

» http://magnetkonto.d…herzfassen/index.html

Submission

Monika Hoinkis, Dec 20, 2005

Category

• artistic production

Keywords

• Topics:
  • human-machine-interaction (HCI) |
  • awareness |
  • biofeedback |
  • body |
  • media art |
  • interactivity
• Formats:
  • object

Additions to Keyword List

• physical computing |
• elektronics