Authors:
Heather Wiltse
In the Pulse Room of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's "A Draft of Shadows" exhibition at Bildmuseet on the Umeå University Arts Campus, a large room is empty except for rows and rows of light bulbs hanging from the ceiling and a pair of metal rods on a stand at one end of the room. The light bulbs flash seemingly at random while a low, rumbling, whooshing sort of sound fills the room. But when a person holds onto the rods, the light bulbs start to flicker faster, and then within a few seconds the lights and sounds converge in a pulsing…
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