This article aims to explore an innovative application pairing optical fibers with an electrocardiography (ECG)/respiration (RESP) sensor in art. The constructed interactive work Clock Inside Out not only reflects multifaceted human life but also coexists with the body in the world. Thus, the body is extended to take on a technological character and portrayed as a heteromerous embodiment. Following an analysis of the artwork, the article elaborates on the aesthetic and corporeal phenomena arising from it and concludes with the new meanings and implications carried by the artwork.

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optical fiber, sensor, interactive, perception, body
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Clock Inside Out

Clock Inside Out signifies the unfolding journey of temporal and spatial transformation. When the viewer encounters the artwork, though the hour and minute hand move accordingly with time, the movement of the second hand follows his/her heartbeat and respiration. (Images © 2014, Chia-Hung Kuo; music © Yi-Huei Chen)

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