Claudia Arozqueta
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Books
HEARTBEAT ART
An innovative history of heartbeats, pulse, and technoscience in the works of a wide international array of artists and composers
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, Mona Hatoum, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Christian Boltanski, and many others.
Accessible, engaging… This examination of how artists represent the pulse tunes us to the way our heartbeats throb through us, with each other, on a throbbing earth, in a throbbing cosmos.
~Nina MacLaughlin, New England Literary News
Arozqueta’s articulation of biology, technology, and politics makes Heartbeat Art particularly interesting... Arozqueta develops a reflection where the intimate meets the collective, and where the body, permeated by technology, becomes a critical and symbolic space.
~Espace Art Actuel
For those with an interest in both contemporary artistic creation and the intersection between visual and performing arts, science, and technology, this book comes recommended.
~Notes
By pulsing back and forth between the heartbeat’s symbolism, ontological framework, and emotional, intellectual, medical, and philosophical associations, this book should engage a wide readership. I am left at the end with a heightened sense both of my mortality and vigor, my organic nature and my cyborgian debt to technology, and an eerie sense that, by sharing heartbeats as art, these artists have done us all a great service by reminding us of our common humanity.
~Hannah B Higgins, Professor of Art and Art History, University of Illinois Chicago; author of The Grid Book
MIT Press, May 2025. Read here.
An innovative history of heartbeats, pulse, and technoscience in the works of a wide international array of artists and composers
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, Mona Hatoum, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Christian Boltanski, and many others.
Accessible, engaging… This examination of how artists represent the pulse tunes us to the way our heartbeats throb through us, with each other, on a throbbing earth, in a throbbing cosmos.
~Nina MacLaughlin, New England Literary News
Arozqueta’s articulation of biology, technology, and politics makes Heartbeat Art particularly interesting... Arozqueta develops a reflection where the intimate meets the collective, and where the body, permeated by technology, becomes a critical and symbolic space.
~Espace Art Actuel
For those with an interest in both contemporary artistic creation and the intersection between visual and performing arts, science, and technology, this book comes recommended.
~Notes
By pulsing back and forth between the heartbeat’s symbolism, ontological framework, and emotional, intellectual, medical, and philosophical associations, this book should engage a wide readership. I am left at the end with a heightened sense both of my mortality and vigor, my organic nature and my cyborgian debt to technology, and an eerie sense that, by sharing heartbeats as art, these artists have done us all a great service by reminding us of our common humanity.
~Hannah B Higgins, Professor of Art and Art History, University of Illinois Chicago; author of The Grid Book
Edited Journals
The Sounds of Nature
Ideas Sónicas | Sonic Ideas, No. 32, 2024. Read here
The 20th anniversary issue of Sonic Ideas muses on the sounds of nature. As forms of energy, the sounds of nature have an impact on our body and our perception of our surroundings. Our dissociated relation with the environment has resulted in a global ecological crisis. Today, more than ever, it is essential to consider ourselves and our actions in the context of nature and all living beings.
Artists, composers, researchers, and thinkers from around the world were invited to write about the sounds of nature, including animal vocalizations; non-vocal sounds made by humans and non-human life; environmental sounds on Earth and beyond; as well as speculative and fictional sounds from the natural kingdoms; etc.
Contributors
Douglas Kahn, Jo Burzynska, Lena Ortega Atristran, Jorge Variego, Julia Bejarano López, Juan Duarte Regino, David Garrido Rojas, Jonathan Corzo Garavito, Angélica Piedrahita, Pippin Barr, Matthew Bethancourt, Caterina Riva, Juan Fabuel, etc.
Ideas Sónicas | Sonic Ideas, No. 32, 2024. Read here
The 20th anniversary issue of Sonic Ideas muses on the sounds of nature. As forms of energy, the sounds of nature have an impact on our body and our perception of our surroundings. Our dissociated relation with the environment has resulted in a global ecological crisis. Today, more than ever, it is essential to consider ourselves and our actions in the context of nature and all living beings.
Artists, composers, researchers, and thinkers from around the world were invited to write about the sounds of nature, including animal vocalizations; non-vocal sounds made by humans and non-human life; environmental sounds on Earth and beyond; as well as speculative and fictional sounds from the natural kingdoms; etc.
Contributors
Douglas Kahn, Jo Burzynska, Lena Ortega Atristran, Jorge Variego, Julia Bejarano López, Juan Duarte Regino, David Garrido Rojas, Jonathan Corzo Garavito, Angélica Piedrahita, Pippin Barr, Matthew Bethancourt, Caterina Riva, Juan Fabuel, etc.
© 2025 ~ Claudia Arozqueta