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October 27, 2008

‘Pulse Park’ in The Annotated Artwork in New York Magazine

When you walk up to Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s installation Pulse Park, which will be switched on Friday evening in Madison Square Park, you register at a kiosk—but instead of giving your name, you record your heartbeat. Two hundred individuals’ pulses then become 200 beams of light, forming a blinking, flashing scrim that parkgoers can walk through…. Read more

October 24, 2008

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse Park

The Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art program presents Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Pulse Park, an interactive light installation that will be viewable from dusk until 10:00 p.m. nightly in Madison Square Park, located between Madison and Fifth Avenues, and 23rd and 26th Streets in Manhattan. Visitors’ heart rates will be monitored by a heart rate sensor sculpture, and will activate two hundred theatrical spotlights, creating a pulsating matrix of light across the central Oval Lawn of the historic park.

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October 23, 2008

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in This Week in New York/TONY

Pulse Park in Madison Square Park If the sight of falling leaves and the smell of fresh air make your heart beat faster, turn those pitter-patters into a personalized public art show with Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s interactive light installation Pulse Park. Two sculptures equipped with sensors will monitor visitors’ heart rates, then transmit the… Read more

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October 8, 2008

Lozano-Hemmer featured in New York Post

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer wants to take the pulse of the Big Apple. The international artist plans to set up two sensors that will transmit the heartbeats of visitors to 200 theatrical lights set in an oval shape in Madison Square Park. This “concert of heartbeats” will create a pulsating dance of shafts of light in the… Read more

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September 18, 2008

Carol Vogel Features Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in The New York Times

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s light installations have been seen in places like Mexico City and Lyon, France; Dublin and Venice, where he represented his native Mexico at the 2007 biennale. Starting next month Mr. Lozano-Hemmer’s work will be seen by thousands of people in New York and then London. Every evening at dusk till about 10 p.m…. Read more

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August 24, 2008

‘Pulse Park’ Part of Fall Preview in New York Magazine

In Madison Square Park, Oct. 24–Nov. 17. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s 200 ground-level spotlights beat in tandem with the hearts of passersby. If the lights start to flutter, drop that Shake Shack burger and get to the ER, stat. Read full article at nymag.com Download full article