Author Talk: Heartbeat Art

Join us at a program with Claudia Arozqueta, author of Heartbeat Art, exploring the history of heartbeats, pulse, and technoscience in the work of a wide range of international artists and composers. She will be joined in conversation by MIT’s Behnaz Farahi.
Heartbeat Art is the first study of how artists have engaged with heartbeats from the 1960s to the present, creating sophisticated and technological works that project in unique ways the circulatory processes of the body beyond its physical limits. Drawing on a long history of scientific and artistic experimentation, Claudia Arozqueta offers detailed case studies of heartbeat works by a wide range of international artists working at the interconnections of our bodies, art, and science and technology, including Yoko Ono, Pauline Oliveros, Heinz Mack, Brian O’Doherty, Teresa Burga, and many others.

Copies of Heartbeat Art will be available for purchase and signing after the talk, courtesy of the MIT Press Bookstore.

November 18
6pm – 7pm, followed by a book signing
$5