Pulse

Pulse is a live visualization of recent emotional expressions written on blogger.com.  Blogged emotional expressions are parsed using a list of synonyms which are translated into physical changes on a rubbery heart. This project has a fascinating mix of human emotions and computer data data.  Feelings are coded as data in blogs, and the data is turned back into Pulse, an object with its own sense of life.  I appreciate that the end result seems very alive, but very robotic at the same time.  It appropriately represents the mix of warm emotions and cold data that are feeding it.  Pulse is the thesis project of University of the Arts Berlin student, Markus Kison.  (Found through Computerlove).