HEART OF THE CITY

ANAISA FRANCO (Based in Berlin)
HEART OF THE CITY, 2015

Heart of the City is an interactive public art sculpture that pulses light according to the heartbeat of the people. The sculpture invites people to sit and to interact with it. When a person places its finger on the pulse sensor located in one of the seats of the sculpture, it starts to light on and off according to the rhythm of the heart beat of the user. When nobody is touching the pulse sensor, the Heart of the City has its own rhythm and illumination.

 

Photographs:
© Anaisa Franco

Artist biography

Anaisa Franco (1981) lives and works as an artist. In the last years she has been developing New media Artworks inM edialabs, residencies and commissions such as Medialab Prado, Mecad, MIS, Hangar, Taipei Artist Village, China Academy of Public Art Research Center, Mediaestruch, Cite des Arts, ZKU, SP_Urban and MAC Fenos. She has a Master in Digital Art and technology at University of Plymouth in England, UK and graduated in Visual Arts at FAAP in Sao Paulo.
She has been exhibiting in America, Asia and Europe: EXIT Festival in Paris; ARCO Madrid in Spain; Europalia in Brussels; Live Ammo at MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan; TÉKHNE at MAB Museum of Brazilian Art in São Paulo, Brazil; Sonarmática at CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain; the 5th Seoul International Media Art Bienalle, Seoul, Korea; Vision Play at Medialab PRADO; SLOW at Plymouth Art Centre in England and many others. She is represented by Adora Calvo Gallery in Spain.