Elastic Heart
Arduino, Servo Motor, Wood, Plastic, Pulse Sensor, LCD Screen, 5V DC, Custom Circuit Boards, Silicone, Ice Packs, Acrylic, Styrafoam Insulin Container, LED Strip.
Made with Noah Kernis as Masters students at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.
Elastic Heart looks at the relationship between humans, their organs, and what it means to transplant an organ. We hope that, by viewing their own heartbeat while holding the heart’s box, a sense of humanity is added to the transplant process.
The transplant process requires a donor, a recipient, and a third party to transport the organ. The person transporting the organ gains another organ for the duration of the trip. When a person places their hand on the sides of the piece, they touch a pulse sensor. In response, the heart starts to “beat” at the person’s BPM. A screen also displays the pulse over time. By holding the box, the person becomes the organ transport. The pulse reflects the persons, revealing it is now part of them.
Brooklyn, New York. October-December, 2019.
All photographs by Pippa Kelmenson & Noah Kernis.
- Project Roles
- Industrial Designer, Strategist, Set Designer, Retoucher, Project Manager, Product Designer, Producer, Post Producer, Interactive Producer, Art Director, Executive Producer, Director, Developer, Designer, Creative Technologist, Creative Director, Artist, Art Producer
- Company
- ITP - New York University
- Skills
- 360 Photography, Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, Ambient / Textural Feels, Arduino, Art Direction, Back-End Development, Blender, Carpentry, Conceptual, Creative Direction, Creative Research, Creative Strategy, Design, Design Strategy, Digital Tech, Editing, Experiential, Fabrication, Front-End Development, Interaction, Interactive, Kid Friendly, Learning Experience Design, Low / High Fidelity Prototyping, Low Budget, Maintaining Schedules, Managing Budgets, Material Design, Mixed Media, Painting, Processing, Producing, Product Development, Project Management, Retouching, Sculpting, Side Fx Houdini, Sketching, Soft Goods Design, Strategy, Tech Strategy, Technical / Medical, Technology, Textures, Usability Testing, Visual Development
- Media
- Art, Concept Art, Industrial Designs, Installations, Interaction Designs, Interactive Installations, Personal Project, Sculptures, Set Designs, Sets, Software, Themed Environments, UI Design, User Flows, User Journeys, UX Designs, Visual Designs, Window Displays
- Project Industries
- Education, Entertainment, Hardware, Health/Pharma, Technology
