Heartbeat Art
Claudia Arozqueta
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An innovative history of heartbeats, pulse, and technoscience in the works of a wide international array of artists and composers.Heartbeat Art is the first study of how artists have engaged with heartbeats from the 1960s to the present, creating sophisticated and technological works that project in unique ways the circulatory processes of the body beyond its physical limits. Drawing on a long history of scientific and artistic experimentation, Claudia Arozqueta offers detailed case studies of heartbeat works by a wide range of international artists working at the interconnections of our bodies, art, and science and technology, including Yoko Ono, Pauline Oliveros, Heinz Mark, Brian O'Doherty, Teresa Burga, and many others. Technoscientific advances in monitoring heartbeats and pulses in the nineteenth century--such as René Laennec's stethoscope, Étienne-Jules Marey's sphygmograph and chronophotograph, and Willem Einthoven's electrocardiograph--transformed the movements of the heart into audible and visual representations. Artists saw in the language of these scientific technologies a way of mingling the inner with the outer, the physical with the technological, and data with flesh. Using archival research, interviews, and correspondence, Arozqueta describes significant works in detail, discusses their contexts and development, and examines the larger classes and contours of this neglected area of artistic activity. Other artists in the volume include Éliane Radigue, Jean Dupuy, Linda Montano, Catherine Richards, Diana Domingues, Mona Hatoum, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and Christian Boltanski.
Product Details
Price
$48.00
Publisher
MIT Press
Publish Date
May 27, 2025
Pages
256
Dimensions
0.0 X 0.0 X 0.0 inches | 0.0 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780262551885
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Claudia Arozqueta is an interdisciplinary historian, curator, and writer whose writing and research have appeared in publications such as Leonardo, Artforum, e-flux Criticism, and others. She has curated various exhibitions for international art organizations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.