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Categories: Installation
Keywords: Cyborg | Interaction
Relevant passages:
Margaret Morse «Sunshine and Shroud: Cyborg Bodies and the Collective and Personal Self»
Works by Catherine Richards:
Catherine Richards
«Charged Hearts»
Richards' installation «Charged Hearts» features two anatomically accurate glass hearts in bell jars and a terrella, a model of the magnetic earth, placed between them. The terrella is a reproduction of a nineteenth-century artifact first used in experiments to replicate, using magnetism, the patterns created by the northern lights. When a viewer lifts one of the bell jars, the heart glows with a ghost-like blue gas plasma, triggered by the electrical activity of charged ions. The glow pulsates, implying a connection to the beating of the viewer's own heart.
