Recorded

This is by far the best exhibition I have been to in a while. It was entirely interactive electronic work. I really like been able to get involved and be part of work.

Favourite work:

Pulse Index 2010

Insert finger to find your pulse (144 scary!) then your print appears on the screen, the more people that do it, the further up the screen your fingerprint goes. It was really beautiful looking at so many strangers’ prints next to each other, and how different they were.

Microphones 2008

You have to say something into the microphones to hear a random recording from somebody else. It was quite embarrassing to have to speak into a mic in a room full of people, especially in a gallery were everyone in so quite, it was very amusing to here what some people said!

Please empty your pockets 2010

You scanned a small object (such as your phone) and the machine would copy this as well as adding some objects people had scanned earlier. It was unusual seeing strangers personal possessions, and a great parallel to airport security.

Pulse room 2006

This was my favourite piece! It made the hairs stand on end. It was a large room full of bulbs, at one end you hold a bar that records your pulse. The single bulb in front of you then mimics your heart rate, the room goes black for a moment then your bulb is released into the work. It’s incredibly powerful to see 100’s of lights representing the very beat that keeps us alive.

People on people 2010

The last room used projectors and cameras to make huge projections of the audience onto enormous screens. The mixture of realistic imagery and shadows made the space really fun for the audience to interact with each other on screen. I’ve never seen myself so big before! I felt really exposed.

I was so impressed by the technology behind the work, and I loved how even though technology can be seen as cold and unnatural, it became personal to the viewer through the involvement of what makes us who we are such as heart beat and fingerprint.