How we read your body
A smart ring on your finger, and the variation of your heart.
The signal
The smart ring measures the variation of blood volume under your skin, the same optical principle as the sensor on the back of a smartwatch. With every beat, blood slightly swells the vessels in your finger; a sensor reads that swelling about twenty-five times per second.
The smart ring records the full shape of every beat, and above all the gap between two beats. That gap keeps changing with what your body is living through.
From signal to artwork
The capture
The smart ring records only your heartbeats, continuously, from the start of the moment to its end.
The reading
Your raw signal is cleaned, then split beat by beat. From the cleaned signal, the studio extracts the rhythm, its accelerations, its slowdowns and its irregularities: the data of the drawing.
The translation
Each beat becomes a line. The line’s length, position and colour depend on what your heart was doing at that precise instant. The whole form of the artwork comes from your data.
The composition
The artist composes the lines according to the artwork you chose, adjusts balance and density, then prints the artwork.
One of a kind
Every artwork is unique because you are
Every person and every moment produce a different trace.
The same moment
Another moment
Your data
Your capture data is used to compose your artwork. This data is neither resold nor shared for commercial purposes. We do not use this data to train models. To move our work forward, we use aggregated measurements, which reproduce no individual trace. You can ask to see your data, to correct it, or to delete it, at any time.
The detail is in our terms and consent policy.
All that is left is choosing your moment