Dec 17, 2014
Pulse Index (2010) Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
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Pulse Index (2010) Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Pulse Index by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
"'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".
Pulse Index is another piece by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is the one I saw in Santa Fe. It consists of over 509 unique finger prints, displayed over a series of monitors. The viewer is encouraged to stick his/her finger in a sensor to take a pulse while the fingerprint is scanned and projected. Everyone loved this piece because it is highly interactive and allows the viewer to have a piece of them hanging on the wall. Five min out fame... holla!