BLOOD FLO (2012)
I was unable to use myself for this work due to health and age issues. My involvement came out of my direct experience of a
minor stroke.
VIDEO:
I was unable to use myself for this work due to health and age issues. My involvement came out of my direct experience of a
minor stroke.
VIDEO:
Video Blood Flo (1min 14 sec looped video). 2011
Yvonne Jones.
Yvonne Jones.
Background materials:
Link on the images below for a little more detail of material that informed Blood Flo above
FORM:
The work is an installation piece, installed on a monitor X 3, each monitor placed meaningfully in the space, with a large projection of the same video also placed within the same space, in a meaningful manner, that befits the space, pulling the viewer into the technical circuit. The recordings are played out of sync with each other, creating a complex set of rhythms.
PROCESS:
The work was created from many images and videos collected during a period of observation and recording. The materials were manipulated using video and audio to develop a work that brought together the experience of watching and the collecting of information. The visual and audio of the piece work together to balance the technological with the humane intervention / caring / nurturing of the attendant. The human is integrated into a technological system, further complexity due to the presence and technological capturing of the event, now involving 2 human bodies connected in a circuit of recording.
CONTEXT:
The work was enabled thanks to Dr Tony Birch of the Medical Physics Research Department at University Hospital Southampton who gave me access to his research lab and work Cerebral Autoregulation Measurement. Blood Flo as well as being a complete work, was to be used in a PR event in Belgium which I gave permission for. For Tony he stated the effect of my work was to 'humanise a technical and impersonal procedure'.
For me the plugging in of a human body into a circular system of technology was a directly observed experience and demonstration of the ease that humans 'can be seamlessly articulated with intelligent machines' ( the 4th characteristic of the posthuman as written of by Katherine Hayles). How readily the corporeal body system was incorporated into the system in order to 'provoke repeated small variations in arterial blood pressure and arterial carbon dioxide levels from which active control of the cerebral blood flow can be measured' Birch.
The work is an installation piece, installed on a monitor X 3, each monitor placed meaningfully in the space, with a large projection of the same video also placed within the same space, in a meaningful manner, that befits the space, pulling the viewer into the technical circuit. The recordings are played out of sync with each other, creating a complex set of rhythms.
PROCESS:
The work was created from many images and videos collected during a period of observation and recording. The materials were manipulated using video and audio to develop a work that brought together the experience of watching and the collecting of information. The visual and audio of the piece work together to balance the technological with the humane intervention / caring / nurturing of the attendant. The human is integrated into a technological system, further complexity due to the presence and technological capturing of the event, now involving 2 human bodies connected in a circuit of recording.
CONTEXT:
The work was enabled thanks to Dr Tony Birch of the Medical Physics Research Department at University Hospital Southampton who gave me access to his research lab and work Cerebral Autoregulation Measurement. Blood Flo as well as being a complete work, was to be used in a PR event in Belgium which I gave permission for. For Tony he stated the effect of my work was to 'humanise a technical and impersonal procedure'.
For me the plugging in of a human body into a circular system of technology was a directly observed experience and demonstration of the ease that humans 'can be seamlessly articulated with intelligent machines' ( the 4th characteristic of the posthuman as written of by Katherine Hayles). How readily the corporeal body system was incorporated into the system in order to 'provoke repeated small variations in arterial blood pressure and arterial carbon dioxide levels from which active control of the cerebral blood flow can be measured' Birch.