Materials Suggestions

URGENT!!!!!

We should have by monday the definite idea of what the material for the blood stain in our installation is going to be.
Any suggestion must include:

1. Info about firm (where, who)
2. Price

Keep in touch
Irene

Presentation Board for Monday 14th Nov.

Installation rough visuals

Installation rough visuals

IMI group

hello,

it's camille and andrea, from IMI.

we thought about the project and we are not really agree with everything you proposed. we spoke with our tutor and its definitly not possible to have a sensor who take the beat of each person. Also, for us, artistically create a video of a heart beat with blood and dispose it outside is not really original. And nobody will let us dispose a projector outside.

to be honest we really liked the first idea, the ethanol molecule with liquid which destroy things inside, and the concept of alcohol consequences and projecting some differents video on the balls. we understand you had the idea and you dont really want to change it, and its why you dont let us really participate. however because we think you really had a great idea with the ethanol thing, we would like to find compromise with you. we spoke with our imi technicien, and he said its totally possible to project different video in different balls with just one projector, so we are now thinking to create some less obvious videos than the heart beat and project them into balls.

if you dont want us to project on "your balls" we could do two similar installations, one with the video projected on balls. it can be displayed as a support of your installation. the two wont be visible at the same time, they would be separated by a wall.

let us know what you think.

cheers

camille and andrea.

The Pulse Room

Hi, guys.
Here is a youtube link to the Pulse Room installation video.
Here is some info:

RAFAEL
LOZANO-HEMMER

Pulse Room

Pulse Room is an interactive installation featuring one to three hundred clear incandescent light bulbs, 300 W each and hung from a cable at a height of three metres. The bulbs are uniformly distributed over the exhibition room, filling it completely. An interface placed on a side of the room has a sensor that detects the heart rate of participants. When someone holds the interface, a computer detects his or her pulse and immediately sets off the closest bulb to flash at the exact rhythm of his or her heart. The moment the interface is released all the lights turn off briefly and the flashing sequence advances by one position down the queue, to the next bulb in the grid. Each time someone touches the interface a heart pattern is recorded and this is sent to the first bulb in the grid, pushing ahead all the existing recordings. At any given time the installation shows the recordings from the most recent participants.

Also, have a look at this:
http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/pulse_phone.php
And this:

Pulse Park

Relational Architecture 14

"Pulse Park" is comprised of a matrix of light beams that graze the central oval field of Madison Square Park. Their intensity is entirely modulated by a sensor that measures the heart rate of participants and the resulting effect is the visualization of vital signs, arguably our most symbolic biometric, in an urban scale.

In Pulse Park, evening visitors to Madison Square Park have their systolic and diastolic activity measured by a sensor sculpture installed at the North end of the Oval Lawn. These biometric rhythms are translated and projected as pulses of narrow-beam light that will move sequentially down rows of spotlights placed along the perimeter of the lawn as each consecutive participant makes contact with the sensor. The result is a poetic expression of our vital signs, transforming the public space into a fleeting architecture of light and movement.

Volumetric Flasks

Hello Guys,

I have been doing some research about the Ethanol and its formula. And found two important points to take into consideration:

1. The formula has 3 main elements Carbon, Hidrogene and Oxigen. However they repeat several times, giving a total number of 9 balls ( what it would be flasks for us!)
2. Since we are using Ethanol and we are basing the whole process on its formula, I thought maybe we could use Volumetric Flasks from the lab instead of normal glass jars. I think it really goes into context.  

So, my point is that if we take into consideration what I just mentioned, instead of 4 flasks maybe we should introduced 9 in our installation, as in the formula, by repeating elements (tar, flesh...)

Also, I found those in the picture for very cheap £4.99 the pack of 5, 250ml. If we decide to go for it, I can buy them and try to find 500ml ones to represent the 3 big elements in the middle of the formula, as in the picture.

Suggestions and opinions asap,please!