video
Four Core Chambers, Martina }{ Johnston, Berkeley, CA
September 7th, 2013 – November 3rd, 2013

From the press release:

Nick Lally’s video work Throb (2013) uses Euler[ian] Magnification algorithms* to process film and news footage, and reveals people’s pulses hidden within the video information. The footage cuts between the original videos, processed videos, and stylized animations to reveal unexpected data within the visual elements. This, in turn, invites viewers to re-consider their own heartbeat not as the “original” to which the heartbeat reading is a “copy”, but as a highly relational and contingent piece of information in its own right.

*developed at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory