Jean Dupuy - Heart Beats Dust
Most Interesting Artwork in E.A.T's exhibition was this for me. It's a Art-technical machine made of the connection between human's heart beat and Dust.
In this video, one man put the sensor on someone's chest. Then, Someone's heart beat is transfer to the pounding machine under the dust.
When I watch this video, it was simple but amazing. Basically many people are familiar with visual/audio signal comes from our body. like Heart Rate Monitor in the hospital. we can change our body's physical status to figure or visual sign we can recognize easily.
But this machine is basically same with that process but slightly different. The difference is "Dust" is also physical thing like Heart beat. Dust is not an artificial figure or visual sign. that's a material like our heart. Most people cannot see their actual heart as an organism, only can see as an picture through the MRI or can fell wave on the monitor or vibration on their clothes. but this case makes people can feel the heart's movement and energy in a material way. I could imagine there is a real heart under the sand panel and I could feel the vitality of the human organism by the representation of the heart beat as an material. To summary I can feel materiality of human heart and heart beat by the another material "Dust", not by the wave on the screen.
And I could see the energetic era 1960's. Swelling world, Over flowing resources and money. I think there's no kind of big world event like Osaka expo in the future. But I hope so it could be as a small version in various scene. I want to see that kind of collaboration about A.I. and computer game with art in the future. because now is just beginning, I think it's going to be amazing in the future and that's just a matter of time. It can make more amazing one than the past I think.
+ Description in Exhibition
1968 Jean Dupuy Heart Beats Dust: Cone Pyramid Wood, glass, lithol Rubine, stethoscope, amplifier, light 198x57X57cm Emily Harvey Foundation 198x57x57cm In Heart Beats Dust: Cone Pyramid, small dust storms erupted in sync with heartbeats, under a red light forming a pyramid shape. An electronic stethoscope captured the heartbeat of an audience member, the sound of which was then amplified through a rubber membrane installed at the center of the stage; the vibration from the soundwave raised the dust storm. Lithol Rubine, a pigment chosen because its particles can remain airborne for a relatively long time, reminded the viewer of red blood. Inside a rectangular wooden structure, a glass case and machine equipment were installed so that the audience could see intuitively how the heartbeats were translated into the eruption of the dust. Artist Jean Dupuy created the work in collaboration with engineers Ralph Martel and Harris Hyman. In 1968, the work won the first prize award for the most original work created through a collaboration between artist and engineers in a competition organized by E.A.T. In the same year, the work was shown in two exhibitions held in conjunction with the competition. They were Some More Beginnings: Experiments in Art and Technology, November 25, 1968-January 5, 1969, at the Brooklyn Museum, and The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, November 27, 1968- February 1969, at the MoMA.