CityBeat

Dear everybody!

Welcome to visit the CityBeat installation of Mina Arko and Ben
Dromey  at Lasipalatsi Square !

CityBeat is part of a public art exhibition focusing on relations between art,
science and society is being held simultaneously across eight European
countries: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Portugal, Spain, Great Britain,
Germany and Finland.

CityBeat brings the heartbeats of Riga, Lisboa, London and Helsinki for us
to touch. We are live recording sound in central places in these cities
and translating it to a heartbeat. You are able to feel and compare the
changing pace of the cities by touching the installation form. CityBeat
suggests that we are losing touch with our cities. By giving life to a
city through the metaphor of a heartbeat, something we can universally
identify with, we bring back into focus what a city is, an organism
created, inhabited and continuously changed by man.

EPAC is the European Public Art Centre, a collaborative engagement between
organisations across Europe with the aim to exhibit art-science artworks
in urban outdoor public settings. The project is coordinated in Finland by
the the Finnish Society of Bioart.

http://citybeatproject.com/