pulse
#2008#theorieOfEmotion
#realtime
Commissoned by V2_ Rotterdam
Pulse is a live-visualization of recent emotional expressions,
written on private weblogs hosted at wordpress.com. Weblog entries
are compared to a list of emotions, which refers to
Robert Plutchik's seminal book Psychoevolutionary Theory of
Emotion
published in 1980. Plutchik describes eight basic human emotions
in his book: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger,
and anticipation. He developed a diagram in which these eight
emotions, together with their weakened and amplified counterparts,
form a three dimensional cone, consisting of 24 projects. The cone
is the basic form of pulse, which can enlarge in the 24 directions
of the different emotions. Each time an emotion tag, or a synonym
of it, is found in a recent blog entry, the shape-shifting object
transforms itself in such a way that the new volume represents a
piece of the overall current emotional condition of surfers on the
Internet.
Developed in the
Digital Media Class
at the University of the Arts Berlin.

Plutchik proposed the wheel of emotions in 1980 to illustrate the various relationships among emotions

Latex object inside acrylic casing

Servo motors, wires

Emotion projects according to Robert Plutchiks Psychoevolutionary Theory of Emotion

Detail latex object

Presentation of v2008 at UdK Berlin

v2012 with spring mechanics

Milled components in v2012.

Exhibition view at DEAF Rotterdam.