I am completed enamored by Claudia Arozqueta's book on Heartbeat Art (MIT Press 2023). Her deep dive into medical history and means of listening to the body is inspiring beyond what I understood the history of biofeedback to be.

"This examination of how artists represent the pulse tunes us to the way our heartbeats throb through us, with each other, on a throbbing earth, in a throbbing cosmos."

Nina Maclaughlin reviews "Heartbeat Art" on her New England Literary News Substack:

“Timing Pulses: The Interoceptive Art of Allan Kaprow’s 'Time Pieces'” is now up at The MIT Press Reader. This article is an edited excerpt from the Time chapter of my book, 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝘼𝙧𝙩

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In "Heartbeat Art," Claudia Arozqueta draws on a long history of scientific and artistic experimentation, providing detailed case studies of heartbeat works by a wide range of artists working at the interconnections of our bodies, art, and science and technology:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255188...

My book 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝘼𝙧𝙩 is officially out in the world!

MIT Press summarized the book as, “An innovative history of heartbeats, pulse, and technoscience in the works of a wide international array of artists and composers.”

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Claudia Arozqueta's groundbreaking book available for preorder from MIT Press.