Overview
An innovative history of heartbeats, pulse, and technoscience in the works of a wide international array of artists and composers. 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 Mack, Brian O'Doherty, Teresa Burga, and many others. Technoscientific advances in monitoring heartbeats and pulses in the nineteenth century-such as Rene Laennec's stethoscope, tienne-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 liane Radigue, Jean Dupuy, Linda Montano, Catherine Richards, Diana Domingues, Mona Hatoum, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and Christian Boltanski.
Full Product Details
Author: Claudia Arozqueta
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
Imprint: MIT Press
Weight: 0.369kg
ISBN: 9780262551885
ISBN 10: 0262551888
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 27 May 2025
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
“Accessible, engaging… This examination of how artists represent the pulse tunes us to the way our heartbeats throb through us, with each other, on a throbbing earth, in a throbbing cosmos.” —Nina MacLaughlin, New England Literary News
Author Information
Claudia Arozqueta is an interdisciplinary historian, curator, and writer whose work has 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.
