Artist collaborates with AI to create immersive installation of human heartbeats in real time [Video]

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Across a large canvas, vibrant colored lines pulse and weave. Yet the canvas itself is not cloth, but rather a screen; the lines are not brushstrokes but real-time human heartbeats, captured via artificial intelligence (AI).

The installation is called “Heart Space,” and it is the latest work by Canadian Korean contemporary artist Krista Kim, merging “art, technology and science.” A total of 3,526 individual heartbeats were captured and showcased in the piece.

Kim, the metaverse editor for Vogue Singapore, is also the artist behind the record-setting “Mars House,” a fully virtual home that sold for more than $500,000 during the NFT craze in 2021.

Commissioned by Swiss banking group Julius Baer as part of its …