As art becomes more interactive, the viewer-looks-at-art-and-feels-emotion dynamic is being turned on its head. MONOLITT is a new installation by Oslo School of Architecture and Design students Syver Lauritzsen and Eirik Haugen Murvold that takes crowd sourced sentiment analytics and turns them into physical paint data visualisations.

The idea is for the installation to quite literally paint the mood of the city using social media feeds as an input. “The installation takes electronic signals and lets them manifest themselves in the physical world. Using sentiment analytics, the installation links tweets to corresponding coloured paints in real-time, feeding them out through the top of the sculpture, letting them flow into a procedurally generated three-dimensional painting”, says Lauritzsen on his website. Users tweet messages like “annoyed” or “feeling good” and these emotions correspond to different colours of paint which spills out of the pedestal.

Heart Bot is another interaction reliant installation that invites viewers to spend thirty seconds with their finger on a heart rate sensor while a robotic machine draws their heartbeat in real time.