HupaNEW MEDIA

Interactive light and sound installation

The authors focus on the symbolic expression of the impact of an individual on their environment. The installation illustrates that the very presence of an individual causes changes in the environment and nature. Every action, even if it is only a physical presence, has its own echo or reaction in the surroundings.

With the installation, the authors respond to the dominant anthropocentric perspective, which cannot think about the environment without the influence of humans. The installation not only shows our impact on the environment, but also explores a type of dialogue that is established only because of our presence.

Just as the environment responds to us, we also respond to the impulses of the environment. The installation represents a tangle of feedback loops that questions the possibilities of human symbiosis with the environment.

The heart and brainwaves of two guests are in the foreground for the first time. 

The author simultaneously connects their bodies to devices for recording of the acoustic heart and brain wave activity, to dynamically amplify the relationship between heartbeat, brain activity and mutual relationships with their hearts and  brain waves. 
EEG data is recorded anonymously during the sessions for later analytical research of the connections between psychophysical processes and the influence of manipulated biological feedback loops of the heartbeat. 

The sessions offer an intimate, transcendental experience into visitors own hearts (and the hearts of another participant)

The fourth part of the research series, memoriae music album, draws on the past manifestations of the ictuscordis project. 

Heartbeat. The contracting and relaxing of the main organ of the cardiovascular system. A pulse – expansions and contractions – that produces a particular rhythm. A rhythm that can be steady, uneven, slow, excited, calm, jerky. A variety of emotions can be gathered from a simple sequence of heartbeats.

Januš Aleš Luznar has been thinking about how to amplify the heartbeat and develop electronic music using only the sounds of the heart for years. In 2018, he started exploring the impact of manipulated sound on the functioning of the heart by using contact microphones and a special sound amplifier.

Luznar treats the sound of the heart as a simultaneous instrument that plays on its own and never ceases to emit sounds. An instrument he can train, strengthen and control through different emotions, sound-mixing techniques and breathing. Listening to the sounds of the heart tells us about a person’s physical health and potential cardiovascular problems; Luznar, however, uses these sounds to explore the relationship between the psychic and physical parts of the human body.

By way of a biofeedback method, Luznar very precisely and in real time adds effects to the sounds of the heart, thus manipulating their intensity and taking the listeners on a journey through a variety of emotional states. The result is an intimate, ambient immersion into the universe of the human heart.

A small intimate immersive audiovisual experience in which the author uses the hearts of individual guests.

In this ”variatio”, synthesizers are an addition to primarily used audio effects from the first part of the series ”modulatio”. 

This performance is dedicated to research of the impact, of manipulative biofeedback loops on people with various professional and social backgrounds. 

Audiovisual contemporary dance performance based on the heartbeats of a dancer and the author.

At the forefront of the performative research is the creation of a space of references in the case of rhythmic coincidence and the synchronisation of two heartbeats. 

Authors acoustic sound of the heartbeat is used as a musical instrument, whilst the dancers is connected via a heart rate sensor to control visual images.

They explore how manipulated biofeedback loops can be used as well as movements, to control their heart rates. They are searching for a space of synchronicity and harmony.