The Heart of the City

The Heart of the city

A project by Anaisa Franco

in collaboration with Aravinth Panchadcharam, Annie McKinnon, Tank Thunderbird
and Heloisa Antonia Franco.
Produced by VIVID and Connecting Cities
2015

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Description
The Heart of the city is an interactive public art sculpture that pulses light according to the heartbeat of the people. The sculpture invites several people to sit and interactive with it.
When a person places its finger on the pulse sensor located in one of the seats of the sculpture,
it starts light on and off according with the rhythm of the heart beat of the user. When nobody is
touching the pulse sensor, the Heart of the City has its own rhythm and illumination.
The piece aims to bring closer the heartbeat of the citizens by creating a heart to the city where
people could hang out and experience an expansion of their own heart shared with others.

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Side view

Top view

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Technical designs
Conceptualizing the model
The shape of the sculpture comes from an original human heart model that I
modified to get the desired shape for the project.
The sculpture fits 5 people confortably.
It has one pulse sensor located in the center of the sculpture where people
insert the finger and the sculpture pulses red light on and off according to the
heart beat of the user. Half of the cables pulses acording to the right artery and
the other half with the left artery.
The cables evolving the sculpture are LED NEON FLEX color red . The sculpture is robust, waterproof and durable.
Side view 1

Side view 2
2,4 m

Side view 3

Side view 4

1,8 m

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Maquette
Maquette made with ceramics, 3d scanned and calculated using Rhinoceros Software.

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Internal structure and electricity

The interior structure was made with Styrofoam and fiberglass.
Electronics, power supply and a fan was located in the middle of the sculpture inside a wood box.
There are 2 cables to turn on and off the work. Each cable needs 10 amp electric power.

A fan to ventilate
the tecnology

Arduino board and circuits

6 power supplies waterproof

3 Power cord
with 5 plugs each

2 electrical cable2
to plug external
electricity

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Styrofoam structure:
Internal structure was made with Styrofoam and a layer of fiberglass with resin. It was developed
in the Design lab of UTS, University of technology Sydney from April 18th until May 22th, 2015.

External light Skin

The styrofoam shape is covered with 300 meters of LED Neon flex to create a
skin-feel touch.

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LED Neon Flex

The piece is convered with red LED Neon flex.

Pulse sensor
The pulse sensor is placed on the sculpture. People need to sit on the sculpture
and place their finger on the sensor. Suddenly it will light on and off following the
participants heartbeat.

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Delivery method
The project should be transported in a crate by sea.
Crate measures:
245x185x105 cm
200 kilos
4.320 m3

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Location in Sydney
44. Bridge

45. Kaleidoscope

43. Robotanic
42. Swing Glow
41. Arclight

. Harbour Wave

40. Beat

37. Jigsaw

39. You Are Here

38. Tidal Reed Garden

1. Icons

30. Cleft

36. Submerged

35. Lux Forma

34. Dolly

2. Splendens
33. Spectra

32. Geometric Eye

31. Ordered Chaos
30. Monster World
3. Heart of the City

29. Legacy of Landscape

27. OPALessence

28. Internal
Galaxy

26. Ayla
25. Inter/play
24. Entitle 22. Phase Frames
23. Our House

4. Exposed

21. Paint The Town

19. The Milky Laneway

20. The Sound of Colours

5. Rhizome
Prism

18. Tide

17. Confluence
13. Drum Circle
12. Space Folding

16. Affinity
15. Duck, Duck, Goose
14. Beatdice

10. Waters Edge

11. Wave
Chandelier

6. Move Over Damien

7. Cloud

8. Light Origami
9. McGraw Foundation

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Update on 2 February, 2015

The Heart of the City was located next to the Opera House, situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney
Harbour, close to the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the facility is adjacent to the Sydney central business
district and the Royal Botanic Gardens, between Sydney and Farm Coves.
Opera House was Identified as one of the 20th centurys most distinctive buildings and one of the
most famous performing arts centres in the world
The Heart of the city was the Heart of Sydney downtown and Haurbour during May/June 2015.

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List of Future Shows:

Next Dates:

1) VIVID LIGHT SYDNEY

22 May - 8 June
http://www.vividsydney.com
2) CONNECTING CITIES
To be presented in China in Guangzhou and Shenzhen
November - February 2016
http://www.connectingcities.net

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Curriculums
Searching for the creation of a sixth sense, Anaisa Franco creates interfaces
that interconnect the physical with the digital inspired by concepts of psychology and dreams, she provides behaviors, feelings and imagination for the
artworks.

Anaisa Franco

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Short bio:
Born in 1981, she lives and works as an artist. In the last years she has been
developing New media Artworks in Medialabs, residencies and commissions
such as Medialab Prado, Mecad, MIS, Hangar, Taipei Artist Village, China
Academy of Public Art Research Center, Mediaestruch, Cite des Arts, ZKU,
SP_Urban and MAC Fenosa. Mostly of the works were developed by grants and
prizes. She has a Master in Digital Art and technology at University of Plymouth in England, UK and graduated in Visual Arts at FAAP in Sao Paulo.
She has been exhibiting in America, Asia and Europe as the as EXIT Festival
in Paris; ARCO Madrid in Spain; Europalia in Brussels; Live Ammo at MOCA
Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan; TKHNE at MAB Museum of
Brazilian Art in So Paulo, Brazil; Sonarmtica at CCCB Centre de Cultura
Contempornia de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain; the 5th Seoul International
Media Art Bienalle, Seoul, Korea; Vision Play at Medialab PRADO; SLOW at
Plymouth Art Centre in England and many others. She is represented by Adora
Calvo Gallery in Spain.

Im an engineer/artist working with new technologies.

Short bio:
Aravinth has a Masters in Electrical engineering from Technical University
of Berlin and Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunication engineering
from SRM University, Chennai. He has been working with various corporations
such as British Petroleum, Nokia Siemens Network, Daimler and as well art
projects with Anaisa Franco.

Aravinth Panchadaran
me@aravinth.info
www.aravinth.info

Short bio:
Research Assistant to A/Prof. Bert Bongers, at the Interactivation Studio
within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, The University of
Technology, Sydney

Annie Mckinnon

anniemckinnon91@gmail.
www.anniemckinnon.tum-

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