PROJECT 05 / 2026 / SEASONAL / GLOBAL
Global Emotions
Global Emotions is a public emotional observatory — a daily instrument that reads the world as a weather system of attention.
01 / THE PROJECT
One field a day.
Each day, search behavior across countries is classified into emotional categories and mapped to a single color field. Over time the fields accumulate into an archive — a record of how the world felt, one day at a time.
SYSTEM OVERVIEW
- GOOGLE TRENDS — DAILY (GLOBAL)
- EMOTIONAL CLASSIFICATION
- EMOTION → COLOR MAPPING
- ATTENTION WEIGHTING
- DAILY COLOR FIELD
OUTPUT: 1 FIELD / DAY · SCOPE: GLOBAL
02 / METHOD
A daily computational artwork.
Global Emotions translates search behavior around the world into emotional and chromatic fields. Each day produces one color field per place: an atmospheric reading of the public mood.
The instrument reads daily search trends together with the headline context around them, weighted by traffic and publication time. Everything is aggregated by country and stripped of individual identity.
INSTRUMENT
