HEARTSPACE by Krista Kim

The Work

Transmuting cardiac rhythms into symphonic visual choreography

HEARTSPACE premiered at Art Dubai 2024 as the first collaborative biometric, AI-generative immersive environment—a radical proposition in participatory art that renders the invisible architecture of human connection visible. Since its debut, the work has traveled to MOCO Museum London and Barcelona, and manifested in a singular collaboration with Tiffany & Co.'s "With Love, Seoul" at Lotte World Tower.

Within an infinity-mirrored chamber, a luminous LED plane becomes the site of emergence. Four participants simultaneously interface with ECG sensors—an act of corporeal intimacy that bridges flesh and algorithm. Tenbeo's proprietary AI generates a cryptographic key pair through zero-knowledge proof: no biometric data is stored or extracted.

With each encounter, HEARTSPACE weaves an ever-evolving tapestry of cryptographic abstraction. By collapsing the boundary between the organic and the computational—while refusing the extractive logic of data capitalism—the installation excavates a profound sense of entanglement.

Biometric Identity

The Heart Signature

Within the installation, four distinct waveforms converge into a breathing portrait of collective presence. Each Heart Signature—derived from a zero-knowledge cryptographic key pair—manifests as a unique chromatic and kinetic identity.

Beyond its phenomenological dimensions, HEARTSPACE operates as critical infrastructure for a post-surveillance age. Through zero-knowledge cryptography, the work generates non-transferable, immutable Digital IDs anchored to cardiac authentication—proof of presence without disclosure.

Yellow States of equilibrium and calm

Green Moderate affective register

Blue Moderate affective register

Purple Heightened emotional arousal

Pink Apex of emotional intensity

Global Presence

Exhibitions

Dubai, UAE

Art Dubai

World's leading platform for art from the Global South

Dalian, China

AMNC Dalian

World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Noor Riyadh

The world's largest annual light art festival

London, UK

MOCO Museum

A vibrant space showcasing modern and contemporary art

Barcelona, Spain

MOCO Museum

Contemporary art museum in the heart of Barcelona

Seoul, South Korea

Tiffany & Co.

"With Love, Seoul" — A unique collaboration celebrating love and artistry

Framework

HEARTSPACE Concept

Immersive Biometric Experience

HEARTSPACE offers a somatically engaged encounter at the convergence of zero-knowledge cryptography and aesthetic practice. Participants interface with Tenbeo's AI-driven sensors, which generate a cryptographic key pair from their cardiac rhythm—no biometric data is stored or transmitted.

Privacy as Aesthetic Principle

Each Heart Signature finds visual form through generative waveforms and chromatic fields that index emotional states—yet the underlying biometric remains cryptographically sealed. The installation models an alternative to extractive data regimes: identity verified, never violated.

Technology Partner

Tenbeo

tenbeo.ai

Brussels-based Tenbeo provides advanced biometric AI infrastructure rooted in cardiac authentication and zero-knowledge proof architecture. Their technology enables secure identity verification without storing or exposing sensitive biometric data—preventing unauthorized access, identity theft, and financial fraud through the irreplicable signature of the human heart.

"Self Generative. Each person is made of unique electrical patterns."

Structure

Project Components

01 ——

Participatory Interface

Visitors engage directly with biometric sensors, offering their heartbeats as the basis for cryptographic key generation—not data capture. The act of participation becomes the act of authentication.

02 ——

Generative Visual System

Real-time algorithmic translation of zero-knowledge key pairs into evolving digital compositions of waveform and color. Each Heart Signature is unique, ephemeral, and unrepeatable.

03 ——

Immersive Audiovisual Environment

A multisensory chamber synthesizing sound, light, and image into a unified phenomenological experience. The infinity-mirrored space dissolves the boundary between self and collective.

The Artist

Krista Kim

Krista Kim is a pioneering figure in ultra-contemporary art, whose practice excavates the emergent territories of digital consciousness. Her sustained inquiry into technology's transformation of perception, media ecologies, and social architectures has yielded work that operates fluidly across virtual and physical realms. Kim serves as a Cultural Leader of the World Economic Forum and Metaverse Editor of Vogue Singapore.

In 2020, Kim conceived Mars House—a virtual environment rooted in her philosophy of digital Zen—which became the first NFT digital home sold on the open market and the highest-grossing sale on SuperRare in March 2021. The work now resides in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), marking Kim as the first female NFT artist to enter the institution's holdings.

In 2014, Kim initiated the Techism Movement, a philosophical framework recognizing technological innovation as an artistic discipline and calling upon artists to advance digital humanism within our technologically mediated culture. Her manifesto positions technology not as an instrument of extraction, but as a medium for consciousness elevation and collective flourishing.

Kim's Continuum sound and light installation illuminated Times Square across 96 screens every midnight throughout February 2022. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, and she has been recognized by UNESCO as one of '50 Minds for the Next 50.'

Selected Exhibitions & Presentations LACMA, Los Angeles · Sotheby's, New York · Art Dubai · MOCO Museum, London & Barcelona · The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg · Carolina Linz Museum · Palazzo Strozzi, Florence · Palazzo Cipolla, Rome · Times Square, New York · Singapore Art Week · Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul · World Economic Forum, Davos & Dalian · The Sphere, Las Vegas · Noor Riyadh Light Festival

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