Pulse: an emotion visualisation organism.
Created by Berlin-based artist Markus Kison, Pulse is a live visualisation of the recent emotional expressions written on random, private weblogs of Blogger.com. These emotional expressions are parsed according to a list of synonyms created analogous to Robert Plutchik’s Psychoevolutionary Theory of Emotion, and trigger a physical reaction in the shapeshifting, heart-like object around which the project is based. The more one of the eight basic human emotions is represented, the more a corresponding portion of the organism is mechanically activated and the shapeshifting object transforms itself in a way that the new volume represents a tiny piece of the world’s current emotional condition.
