Earl Park

Kongdak is a heart-beating robot that has an arm that can pick up the minute sound of a viewer’s heart beating with a contact microphone and a body that can amplify and play the sound. The moment a viewer’s heart contacts Kongdak’s hand, Kongdak wakes up making his heart beat with the same frequency as the viewer’s heart.
This interaction of physical touch and the propagation of vitality invites viewers to pay attention to their ‘life’, so important but easily forgotten, and at the same time invites to imagine new possible ways of relationship between humans and machines. (Kongdak is the sound of heart beating in Korean)

Dimensions: 80 × 50 × 60 cm
Materials: custom-made speakers and electronics, microphone, actuator, polycarbonate, aluminium

Exhibitions
Science in Art, GS Caltex Yeulmaru, Yeosu, KR (2020. 01.10 ~ 02.29)
What, Seongnam Arts Center Gallery 808, Seongnam, KR (2019. 04.30 ~ 05.31)
Random Access Black Box, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, KR (2011. 11.03 ~ 11.22)