Pulse Room

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    Almacen de Corazondas is an interactive art piece co-produced in 2006 by Puebla 2031. Localized as the Pulse Room, this piece was exhibited for the first time in Puebla, Mexico. Conroy Badger programmed the experience, while David Lemieux, Natalie Bouchard, and Pierre Fournier all additionally aided in the project's production.

    Pulse Room is a large dark room with up to three-hundred clear incandescent light bulbs hung uniformly from the ceiling. Each bulb starts off unlit. In order to light a bulb, a participant must interact with a heart rate sensor. This will then cause the nearest lightbulb to continuously flash to the participant's heart rate. The flashing bulbs will all move down the chain by one each time a new heart beat is added.

    This experience incorporates each person individually into the artwork. One participant stated that she would have liked to see the room at its beginning when merely one bulb was flashing, then watch as the number of beating bulbs gradually increased in number. Parallels can be drawn to the dawn of civilizations. There are few people to start, but over time it begins to grow with many more beating hearts added to the mix. Pulse Room's representation of human life was largely inspired by Roberto Gavaldon's Macario directed in 1960, a film in which people were represented as lit candles in a cave. This line between flickering candles and flashing bulbs is quite easy to draw.

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