What potential does technology hold to amplify human emotion? As we fuse technology and biology, can feeling persist across systems?

PULSE explores the opportunity for emotion to expand in this fusion, rather than disappear. Our pulses, usually hidden, reflect internal states: part of a system where feeling and function are directly linked. The pulse is both personal and universal; unique to each body, but shared across all. The work asks what happens when our biological systems integrate with synthetic ones. Feeling can be extended, made visible, and intensified. Emotion can move across systems, carried between biological and technological forms, and shifting from contained to shared.

Two 3D-printed brain hemispheres connect magnetically, activating a custom embedded circuit board. The circuit board triggers sensors to read the wearer’s heartbeat and translate it into light, outputting each pulse in real time. The body generates the signal, while the electronic system carries and extends it, making the pulse visible as it moves beyond the self.