Yvonne Jones: (Artist Researcher)
Blood Flo : ( 2012 )
Video / Process / Context / Background Materials (stills and video)
Video
Blood Flo : ( 2012 )
Video / Process / Context / Background Materials (stills and video)
Video
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Yvonne Jones. Blood Flo (1min 14 sec looped video). 2011
The work Blood Flo 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.
Background Material
Link on the images below for detail of material that informed Blood Flo above
Background Material
Link on the images below for detail of material that informed Blood Flo above
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. I was unable to undergo the procedure due to health and age issues, he offered me the opportunity to observe while he underwent the trial. 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 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. I was unable to undergo the procedure due to health and age issues, he offered me the opportunity to observe while he underwent the trial. 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.
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