pulse
D-2008. 50 x 50 x 50 cm. Rubber, acrylic glass, motors, arduino microcontrollers, laptop, processing applications, Internet connection.
Here you should soon see a picture overview of the work
About human receptors
Emotions today cannot only be discovered in our own body parts or those of high developed animals. They also rush through another network that is not made of nerves and synapses but of wires and servers. On the Internet separate developing components contribute to a complex evolving system, that is far more than the sum of its parts and therefore very similar to an organism. The biochemical senses which trigger this "super nervous system" are "human receptors". As we write down how we feel right now, e.g on a weblog, the Internet gains what we might call a mental state.
pulse captures this current emotional condition and gives it a physical appearance. In real time the Internet animates an object, that represents all emotions a human may feel, as it is created according to Robert Plutchik's human emotion theory.
On the other hand the organic material of the rubber tree, embedded in a medical apparatus and constrained by operation filaments, reminds of earlier attempts to create life, e.g. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel "Frankenstein". Today's obsession for "emerging technologies" seems quite similar to the technophilia of the 19th century.
Technological explanation
pulse visualizes live the recent emotional expressions, written on private weblog communities like blogger.com. Weblog entries are compared to a list of emotions, which refers to Robert Plutchik's "Psychoevolutionary Theory of Emotion" (1980).
Plutchik describes eight basic human emotions: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, anticipation. He developed a diagram in which those eight emotions, together with their weakened and amplified alternatives, form a three dimensional cone, consisting of 24 areas. This cone is the basic shape of
pulse, which can enlarge in the 24 directions of the different emotions. Each time an emotion or a synonym of it is found in a recent blog entry, the shape-shifting object transforms itself in a way that the new volume represents a piece of the Internet's current emotional condition.
Video documentation
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Context
pulse was created in may 2008 during the diploma thesis in the
Digital Media Class at the University of the Arts Berlin.
The project has been advised by Prof.
Jussi �ngeslev�, Dr.
Stephan G. Humer, Prof.
Kora Kimpel, Prof.
Joachim Sauter and Prof. Dr.
Siegfried Zielinski.
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CURRENT
2009/11/05 - 2009/11/07.
lab.stop, part of
lab30, Augsburg, Germany.
Exhibited work:
Ticker Cross.
2009/04/22 - 2009/10/04.
Bilderschlachten, part of
EMAF 2009, Osnabrück, Germany.
Exhibited work:
touched echo Osnabrueck.
2009/08/19.
Optica Festival La Paz 2009, Cinemateca Boliviana, La Paz, Bolivia.
Exhibited work:
Crucifixion (video documentation).
2009/07/15 - 2009/7/19.
Wearable Technology - Powered Art and Fashion Design, part of
5-days-off,
Netherlands Media Art Institute - Montevideo, Amsterdam, NL.
Exhibited work:
Vanity Ring
2009/05/05 - 2009/05/10.
13th Media Art Biennale WRO - Expanded city, WRO Center Wroclaw, Poland.
Exhibited work:
Vanity Ring.
2009/05/08 - 2009/05/17.
i-Machine,
Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg, Germany.
Exhibited work:
Charming Burka.
2009/04/02 - 2009/04/05.
Pixelache Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland.
Exhibited work:
pulse (video documentation).
Since 2007/10/3.
Brühlsche Terrasse, Dresden, Germany.
Exhibited work:
touched echo.
2009/2/4 - 2009/2/15.
Japan Media Arts Festival, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan.
Winner "Excellence Price".
Exhibited work:
touched echo.
Read
interview.
2007/9/5 - 2009/1/1.
Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria.
Exhibited work: Commissioned version of
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser.
2008/11/8 - 2008/12/28.
Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
Exhibited work:
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser.
2008/12/5 - 2008/12/12.
Pixxelpoint Festival.
Nova Gorica, Slovenia.
Exhibited work:
crucifixion.
2008/11/7 - 2008/11/16.
amber'08, Istanbul, Turkey.
Exhibited work:
pulse.
2008/11/15.
This happened #6,
BFI Southbank London, part of the
Onedotzero festival.
Presentation:
touched echo.
2008/11/13 - 2008/11/15.
LAB30 Augsburger Kunstlabor, Augsburg, Germany.
Exhibited work:
Vanity Ring &
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser.
2008/9.
Newspaper coverage:
touched echo in
El Mundo (Spain),
Images Magazine.
pulse in
Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil),
2008/9/4 - 2008/10/12.
Prix Ars Electronica,
OK Centrum, Linz, Austria.
Honourable mention.
Exhibited work:
touched echo
2008/04/23 - 2008/05/25.
EMAF 2008,
Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche / DGB Gebäude, Osnabrück, Germany.
Exhibited works:
Vanity Ring &
Ticker Cross
2008/04/26
Digital Sparks Award 08
touched echo
Presentation during
EMAF 2008, Osnabrück
Honourable mention
2008/05
Re/act Festival
touched echo
Winner category interactive &
special price: residence stay at the ZKM
2008/02
Charming Burka on the web
Spiegel online (german),
Zeit online (german),
heise: telepolis (german),
Boing Boing,
Engadget,
Financial Times (german)
2008/01/30
SEAMLESS 2008
Vanity Ring &
Charming Burka
Boston Museum of Science, USA
2007/11/16
CYNETart 07 encounter
touched echo
Festspielhaus Hellerau, Germany
2007/10/10 - 2007/10/18
VanityRing in the newspapers
New York Post,
Turun Sanomat (Finland),
DN (Sweden),
The Statesman (India),
Courrier (Japan), Il Corriere della Sera (Italy)
2007/10/10 - 2007/10/18
VanityRing on the web
BoingBoing,
Make,
Wired,
information aesthetics,
Gizmodo,
engadged,
ecrans (France),
Ehrensenf (Germany)
2007/10/20 - 2007/11/4
Reviewing the medium
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser
artlabs center, Sibiu, Romania
2007/9/7 - 2007/11/3
THE WORLD IS MY IMAGINATION
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser
Cube Centre, Manchester, UK
2007/9/5 - 2007/9/11
Ars Electronica 07
crucifixion &
Ticker Cross
NeoAnalogue Exhibiton, Linz
2007/8/13 - 2007/8/16
FILE - Electronic Language International Festival
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser
Sao Paulo, Brazil
2007/5/16 - 2007/6/16
International Media Art Biennale
WRO 07
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser
Wroclaw, Poland
2007/5/12 - 2007/5/20
Designmai
crucifixion &
Ticker Cross
Galerie Tristesse Deluxe, Karl-Marx-Allee 137, Berlin, 12-20h
2007/3/30
Innovationsforum Interaktiondesign
touched echo &
Still valid tickets
Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam
Presentation
2007/2/27
Pecha Kucha
Still valid tickets
Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
Presentation
2007/1
Page Magazin
crucifixion &
Ticker Cross
Article about sacral design
2006/12/27 - 2006/12/30
Chaos Communication Congress
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser
Berliner Congress Centrum, Berlin
2006/11/9 - 2006/11/19
CYNETart Festival
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser
Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden
Winner "Förderpreis der Säsischen Staatsministerin für Wissenschaft und Kunst"
2006/10/31 - 2006/11/4
Gran Canaria Media Festival
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser
Gran Canaria
"Selected Work"
2006/7/21 - 2006/07/23
Rundgang 06
crucifixion
University of the Arts Berlin
2006/7
Page Magazin
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser
Article about Digital Sparks
2006/5/12 - 2006/5/21
KunstComputerWerke
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser
ZKM, Karlsruhe
2006/5/12
Digital Sparks 06
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser
ZKM, Karlsruhe
Winner "Digital Sparks Award 2006"
2006/4/6 - 2006/4/7
React Festival
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser
Schloss, Mannheim
2006/3/31 - 2006/4/2
Pixelache Festival
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
2006/2/24 - 2006/3/5
Japan Media Arts Festival
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
"Jury Recommended Artwork"
2006/2/3 - 2006/2/7
Transmediale 06
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Award nomination
2005/07/15
Rundgang 2006
Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser
University of the Arts Berlin
intermediate diplomas
Hello, my name is Markus Kison. I am a so called 'digital media artist'. This website serves as an archive of my works for documentation and inspiration. Some of them relate to social developments, history or poetics. They were created because of great astonishment how much the digital lifestyle has changed my own life. I have exhibited at festivals and in museums e.g. the Ars Electronica, the ZKM or the National Art Center Tokyo. I live in Berlin.
