Home is Where the Heart Beats
The Big Idea!An immersive installation consisting of vertical columns of light in glass, which responds to visitors movement and heartbeatInspired by huygens synchronisation - which explains how metronomes/pendulums swinging out of time come into synchronisationHow the idea of home isn't just a…
Home is Where the Heart Beats - visualisation
Made by
Alison.Stott
My practice explores the spaces between art and science, craft and technology, glass and light, material process and lived experience.After more than two decades working in digital VFX, I shifted my focus toward glass and light as a way to escape the precision and predictability of a screen-based…The Big Idea!
An immersive installation consisting of vertical columns of light in glass, which responds to visitors movement and heartbeat
Inspired by huygens synchronisation - which explains how metronomes/pendulums swinging out of time come into synchronisation
How the idea of home isn't just a physical space - it's co-constituted by the people who inhabit it, or have inhabited it - its combination of people, feelings and architecture
How would it work?
- Each visitor has their own individual colour - the lights nearest to them pulse with their beat, in their colour as they move around the space.
- If people come near to each other their colours and pulses merge to become a shared heartbeat, then go back to their individual colours and pulses as they move away.
- The room ‘remembers’ who has been there in a collective heartbeat and colour that is a combination (averaging) of all the pulses and colours
Themes of individual and collective, chaos and control as active collaborators, human and non-human, personal and public, inside and outside. Visualising the invisible dynamics between things and make them experientially real
