Rythmus is an interactive installation that makes a vital and intimate phenomenon visible: the heartbeat. Light cycles unfold and evolve according to the similarities and differences of the heartbeat of up to two users placed face to face.

This connects to the 1924 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to Willem Einthoven for “his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram”, more commonly known as the ECG. Einthoven’s research has greatly improved modern medicine and is today standard equipment in hospitals.

This installation transforms this individual physiological phenomenon of a heartbeat into a collective experience. These exchanges, this biometric dialogue, generates sound and light rhythms on the structure and the space in which the installation is staged. In this way the artwork creates a union between the two users, the organic structure, the public and the surrounding space.