Projects |
Pulse SpiralRafael Lozano Hemmer
June 12 - June 13, 2008
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We specially commissioned Pulse Spiral for the opening of the Garage.
The installation was a three-dimensional spiral paraboloid made up of 400 light
bulbs arranged according to Pierre De Fermat’s 17th-century equation to explain
the most efficient spatial distribution of objects on a surface. In
nature, the leaves and stems of plants grow in the same structure
(phyllotaxis). The work was interactive; participants held a sensor
beneath the spiral, which recorded and responded to their individual heart
rates. |