| Tenuous | |
| What | Tenuous examines the heartbeat as a signifier of life and emotion. Stark graphics are combined with rich audio to invert the normal perceptual experience. A visitor is led into a light tight immersive room and presented with an audio/visual wall of ten “disembodied” heartbeats. As the visitor approaches the wall, the heartbeats speed up fearfully. Approaching further leads to a surprise. |
| Which | A very dark installation with lights, sounds, and surprises. Pictures to come. |
| Why | Distributed time synchronization. |
| Who | jackbackrack with fran trainor |
| How | Software written in C using distributed phase-lock looping. Hardware includes laptop connected to tcp-based rabbit2000, sonar sensor, and red leds. |
| When | May 2003 |
| Where | MIT COLLISIONfive |
| And | beatrix |