Sketchbook of HR Performances
The following images are snapshots of ideas over a couple of years exploring the cross over between the digital and the corporeal to capture the Lacanian Real (the hidden world of experience that cannot be articulated in language). I have been looking to explore this through heart rate sensors and the bio feedback loop between the digital image and the body. The questions I ask are 'can the technology help me visualise my experience? what impact does the world around me have on my body? and can the technology tell me more about myself'? and how does my body be[ing] in the world interrupt/shape my experience?
Somewhere Be[tween] The Virtual and the Real (2017)
I look at the still image and try to experience the 'Real' (the unsaid, the imperceptible). I try to capture that through my heart rate variability. I look at the image and wear a heart rate sensor. My heart rate moves the image in real time to my heart beats but I can't see how I am feeling but I can experience how I am feeling.
BioWave (2018)
Sitting
Part of recent research & development. This is a real-time heart rate (HR) video performance. My body is hooked up to a heart rate sensor and my heart beat controls the distortion of the image. The numbers on each image show you my real time HR. The first heart quotation was taken sitting down, the second lying down and the third one deep breathing (mindfulness).