PULSE

An image of PULSE, an installation by Adam Frank located in the Health Science Center at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.
An image of PULSE, an installation by Adam Frank located in the Health Science Center at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.
An image of PULSE, an installation by Adam Frank located in the Health Science Center at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

Commissioned by Texas Tech University Health Science Center
Lubbock, TX, 2019

PULSE is an interactive installation that welcomes people to the new research and education facility with a living symbol of health, compassion and scientific inquiry. PULSE replaces the systems normally found inside walls (plumbing, data conduit, electrical) with a monumental, living, luminous human circulatory system. The more building occupants, the faster the beats and the blood flow. The installation pairs the ancient symbol of divine care for humanity, a luminous heart, with an anatomically accurate simulation. PULSE activates the lobby with an ‘MRI’ of the beating heart of the new Health Sciences Center.