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Starting in 2016, Pulse is an ongoing social practice project, multidisciplinary artwork, and memorial created by collecting the names of fatal victims of armed violence through anonymous public input.
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The added names are read periodically by a group of people as a memorial and then presented as a sound installation.
The name Pulse came from two sources.
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The first 49 names added to the list - the Pulse Nightclub fatal shooting victims.
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And the rhythmic sound resembling a heart beat created when the names of the victim's is read one-by-one.
On July 25, 2023 Adolfo Alberto Ortega , the artist's cousin, was murdered by 2 gunman when exiting the gym.
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