uly 3, 2006
Turbulence Commission: "My Beating Blog" by Yury Gitman
with technical assistance from Benjamin Bacon
http://turbulence.org/works/beatingheart/blog/
"My Beating Blog" is an attempt to take the journaling aspect of blogging into a surrealistic future in which the author literally and metaphorically bares his heart.
For three weeks, a series of posts contextualizing
heart-rate visualizations, GPS-maps, and personal journal entries will give online users a rare entrance into personal medical-grade statistics, stalker-level location tracking, and the private thoughts of the blogger. Inevitably, issues regarding privacy, exhibitionism, and voyeurism playfully emerge as the blogosphere is infused with biofeedback and location technology.
Rather than play into a dystopian or Orwellian future, blogs and
biofeedback are given poetic license, reframing our awareness of our own and each others' beating hearts.
BIOGRAPHY
Yury Gitman is a designer, inventor, and award-winning artist. He has exhibited at the Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth, Australia; Isle de France, Paris; Ars Electronics, Austria; and Eyebeam, among others, New York City. Gitman was one of the first people to use the Internet from inside the New York subway. He did this by employing a network of his "Magicbikes" ("wireless bicycle hotspots"). He was awarded the Ars Electronica Golden Nica for Net Vision in 2003. In 2005 he opened Banana Design Lab, a product design company focusing on lifestyle designs to entertain the soul.
