Heart of the City Documentation

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The Heart of the City

The Heart of the city

A project by Anaisa Franco

in collaboration with Aravinth Panchadcharam, Annie McKinnon, Tank Thunderbird and Heloisa Antonia Franco.

Produced by VIVID and Connecting Cities

2015



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The Heart of the city is an interactive public art sculpture that pulses light according to the heart-beat of the people. The sculpture invites several people to sit and interactive with it.

When a person places its finger on the pulse sensor located in one of the seats of the sculpture, it starts light on and off according with 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.

The piece aims to bring closer the heartbeat of the citizens by creating a heart to the city where people could hang out and experience an expansion of their own heart shared with others.

Description



Side view

Top view



Conceptualizing the model

The shape of the sculpture comes from an original human heart model that I modified to get the desired shape for the project.

The sculpture fits 5 people confortably.

It has one pulse sensor located in the center of the sculpture where people insert the finger and the sculpture pulses red light on and off according to the heart beat of the user. Half of the cables pulses acording to the right artery and the other half with the left artery.

The cables evolving the sculpture are LED NEON FLEX color red . The sculp-ture is robust, waterproof and durable.

Technical designs

Side view 1

2,4 m

Side view 3

Side view 2

Side view 4

1,8 m 2,4m



Maquette

Maquette made with ceramics, 3d scanned and calculated using Rhinoceros Software.



Internal structure and electricity

The interior structure was made with Styrofoam and fiberglass.Electronics, power supply and a fan was located in the middle of the sculpture inside a wood box. There are 2 cables to turn on and off the work. Each cable needs 10 amp electric power.

6 power supplies waterproof

Arduino board and circuits

3 Power cord with 5 plugs each

2 electrical cable2 to plug external electricity

A fan to ventilate the tecnology



Styrofoam structure:

Internal structure was made with Styrofoam and a layer of fiberglass with resin. It was developed in the Design lab of UTS, University of technology Sydney from April 18th until May 22th, 2015.

External light Skin

The styrofoam shape is covered with 300 meters of LED Neon flex to create a skin-feel touch.



LED Neon Flex

The piece is convered with red LED Neon flex.

Pulse sensor

The pulse sensor is placed on the sculpture. People need to sit on the sculpture and place their finger on the sensor. Suddenly it will light on and off following the participants heartbeat.



Delivery methodThe project should be transported in a crate by sea.

Crate measures:

245x185x105 cm 200 kilos 4.320 m3



Location in Sydney

7. Cloud

10. Waters Edge

13. Drum Circle

18. Tide

19. The Milky Laneway

29. Legacy of Landscape

31. Ordered Chaos

30. Cleft

16. Affinity

34. Dolly

42. Swing Glow

40. Beat 46. Harbour Wave

37. Jigsaw

32. Geometric Eye

6. Move Over Damien

39. You Are Here

17. Confluence

38. Tidal Reed Garden

2. Splendens

45. Kaleidoscope

35. Lux Forma

3. Heart of the City

4. Exposed

5. Rhizome Prism

8. Light Origami 9. McGraw Foundation

11. Wave Chandelier

14. Beatdice

22. Phase Frames

28. Internal Galaxy

24. Entitle 23. Our House

30. Monster World

33. Spectra

12. Space Folding

36. Submerged

41. Arclight

43. Robotanic

48. Tumbleweed

52. The Laser Harp

51. Toy Shadows

SHFA Shop Front: 53. Threads 54. A Light Year Ahead

49. Lightwell

50. The Dresses

15. Duck, Duck, Goose

47. Luminous Canopy

26. Ayla

27. OPALessence

1. Icons

20. The Sound of Colours

21. Paint The Town

25. Inter/play

44. Bridge

Update on 2 February, 2015 NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION The Heart of the City was located next to the Opera House, situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the facility is adjacent to the Sydney central business district and the Royal Botanic Gardens, between Sydney and Farm Coves.

Opera House was Identified as one of the 20th centurys most distinctive buildings and one of the most famous performing arts centres in the world

The Heart of the city was the Heart of Sydney downtown and Haurbour during May/June 2015.



List of Future Shows:

Next Dates:

1) VIVID LIGHT SYDNEY22 May - 8 Junehttp://www.vividsydney.com

2) CONNECTING CITIES To be presented in China in Guangzhou and Shenzhen November - February 2016http://www.connectingcities.net



CurriculumsSearching for the creation of a sixth sense, Anaisa Franco creates interfaces that interconnect the physical with the digital inspired by concepts of psychol-ogy and dreams, she provides behaviors, feelings and imagination for the artworks.

Short bio: Born in 1981, she lives and works as an artist. In the last years she has been developing New media Artworks in Medialabs, 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 Fenosa. Mostly of the works were developed by grants and prizes. She has a Master in Digital Art and technology at University of Plym-outh in England, UK and graduated in Visual Arts at FAAP in Sao Paulo. She has been exhibiting in America, Asia and Europe as the as EXIT Festival in Paris; ARCO Madrid in Spain; Europalia in Brussels; Live Ammo at MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan; TKHNE at MAB Museum of Brazilian Art in So Paulo, Brazil; Sonarmtica at CCCB Centre de Cultura Contempornia 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.

Anaisa [email protected] www.anaisafranco.com

skype: anaisafranco+49 (0)15256914108

+34 692 563 798

Im an engineer/artist working with new technologies.

Short bio: Aravinth has a Masters in Electrical engineering from Technical University of Berlin and Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunication engineering from SRM University, Chennai. He has been working with various corporations such as British Petroleum, Nokia Siemens Network, Daimler and as well art projects with Anaisa Franco.

Aravinth [email protected]

Short bio: Research Assistant to A/Prof. Bert Bongers, at the Interactivation Studio within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, The University of Technology, Sydney

Annie [email protected]

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Heart of the City Documentation