Format: Interactive Artifact
We are constantly creating information that we do not possess and neither do we know where it flows. An increasing amount of it comes from our physical bodies. The project focuses on the heartbeat as information, as an emblematic element used to challenge this flow. By means of the mechanical controls, the user rotates the handles to slide the texturized tape – printed with data-rich companies’ logos. By doing so, while wearing the smartwatch, the user tricks the heartbeats’s collection. The playful gesture is a symbolic moment in which the user gains back agency over the data coming from their own bodies.