| The Heart
of Burning Man Project
allows participants to interactively transmit their
own heartbeat to a LED-neon heart sculpture located
in the Burning Man. Participants step up to an interactive
tree sculpture to have their pulse read by special
heartbeat sensors and their pulse is then calculated
and wirelessly transmitted to the heart. With each
heartbeat of the participant, the Heart of Burning
Man will pulse accordingly.
The metaphoric heart
of Burning Man is about the people who make up
the event and honors each person's unique connection
to it.
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The
2007 Green Man Pavillion:
The Heart of Burning Man is part of the Burning Man
2007 Green Man Pavillion. To view more of the projects
from the pavillion, visit the site at...
http://www.burningman.com/installations/07_mangrove.html
The
project is designed and supported by...
Gene Cooper
Naomi Stein Cooper
Project Collaborators:
Scott Vannote, Mark Masterus, Jim Kelly, Joan Czaia,
Dave Ballinger, Alan Mays
Supporting Sponsors:
We'd like to thank our generous sponsors for helping
us with financial assistance and support for the project...
Four Chambers Studio, www.fourchambers.org
Black Rock City, www.burningman.com
Cool Neon, www.coolneon.com
Supporting Individual
Contributors:
We'd like to thank the wide range of individuals who
are contributing to the project in many very interesting
and different ways...
Bettie June and Crimson Rose
Russ Overbeck and Shannon Smith
Bill Stockton and Ali Pearson
Bill Brauckman
Brett Dutton
Philosophical
Statement:
The metaphoric heart of Burning Man has always, in my
opionion, been about the people who make up the event…the
spirit, the energy, the hopes, aspirations, and more.
Its safe to say that most who have been at Burning Man
feel a deep rooted connection as both contributors and
participants in a very personal way. This project honors
that connection and brings it forth into the limelight
by enabling anyone at the event to see their own personal
heartbeat, beat in the Heart of the Man.
As a participant, this as a powerful
experience, to stand in front of the Man and see your
own heartbeat pulsing in such a symbolic icon as the
Man. And as a spectator, the experience of seeing the
Man with a heartbeat and know that the heartbeat is
driven from a live person.
The
Process:
Participants step up to a tree sculpture to have their
pulse read by special heartbeat sensors embedded in
the branches of the tree. Their pulse is then calculated
and wirelessly transmitted to a led-neon sculpture embedded
in the Burning Man sculpture centerpiece. With each
heartbeat of the participant, the Heart of Burning Man
will pulse accordingly.
The
Tree and Heart Sensors:
The tree will be constructed with a built in heart sensor
system to allow any individual to approach the tree
and have their pulse read and ultimately transmitted
to the Man. The sensor system involves simply holding
two specific branches, each with sensors built in to
read the pulse. Once a steady pulse is read, the signal
is then transmitted to the heart sculpture on the man
until they leave. Take about 5-10 seconds for a steady
heartbeat signal to be acquired.
The
Heart Sculpture:
A heart is 3 dimensional sculpture with multiple pulsing
colors (red and orange) of led-neon. A synchronized
pulsing effect simulates and corresponds to the particpants
heartbeat. The led-neon is a relatively new technology
and is flexible, waterproof, uses less power than traditional
neon and does not require a transformer.
Graphics
and Technical Diagrams:
Below are diagrams and an animation sequence for visualizing
the proposed Heart of Burning Man art installation.
Please contact Gene Cooper at gene@fourchambers.org
for questions.
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