• Jonathan Harris harvests human feelings from the web

  Artist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris makes online art that captures the world's expression – to show off a world that resonates with shared emotions, concerns, problems, triumphs, and troubles.

  "Whether you're a billionaire or a refugee, a prisoner or a president, you have feelings," Harris says. And his website "harvests" feelings from the Web. A sample of how people are feeling right now: "I feel like a hack... I feel I could be doing more... I just want to feel alive for the first time in my life... I feel so much of my Dad in me that there isn't room for me."

  05.10.08 | 20:08 GMTcomments

Artist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris makes online art that captures the world's expression – and gives us a glimpse of the soul of the internet. His projects are both intensely personal (the "We Feel Fine" project, which scans the world's blogs to collect snapshots of the writers' feelings) and entirely global ("Universe," which turns current events into constellations of words). But their effect is the same – to show off a world that resonates with shared emotions, concerns, problems, triumphs, and troubles.

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