Pulse, 1999

Three-channel DVD
Color, sound, rear projection
01:48 min., loop

Exhibitions

Defense, University of California, Riverside, 2005
Full-Serve, Rove, New York [curated by Kenny Schachter], 2000

Referencing Eadweard Muybridge’s black and white motion-study photographs, Pulse presents life-size projections of male subjects aged 8, 14, 24, 48, and 76 running on electric treadmills set to 5.5 miles per hour. They wear heart monitors that trigger a strobe behind each subject. The speed of the individual sections is manipulated so that the strobes become synchronous to match the slowest heartbeat of the 24 year-old subject.