We Feel Fine

Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris started We Feel Fine in August 2005 as both a data visualization project and an online artwork.Weiler, Lance. [http://workbookproject.com/blog/2009/12/15/we-feel-fine-an-interview-with-sep-kamvar/ Interview with Sep Kamvar]. Workbook Project. December 15, 2009.[http://www.wefeelfine.org/faq.html We Feel Fine FAQ]. wefeelfine.org. The site was launched officially on May 8, 2006.[http://www.metafilter.com/51478/We-Feel-Fine We Feel Fine]. MetaFilter. May 8, 2006.[http://wefeelfine.org/news.html We Feel Fine News]. wefeelfine.org. It has toured regularly and been exhibited as an artwork all over the world since its launch.[http://www.number27.org/news.html#exhibitions News Page]. Jonathan Harris Website.[http://kamvar.org/publications#exhibitions List of Exhibitions]. kamvar.og. In 2009, Kamvar and Harris took the findings from the four years since they launched the project and turned them into a book called "We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion".[http://wefeelfine.org/book/ The Book]. wefeelfine.org.Whelan, Christine. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-whelan/the-10-most-common-feelin_b_374456.html The 10 Most Common Feelings Worldwide]. The Huffington Post. December 1, 2009.

We Feel Fine is built on top of a data collection engine that scours blog posts every 10 minutes for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" or "I am feeling" and then saves into a database the sentences in which those phrases and any of the 5,000 pre-identified feelings are found.[http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=17923c8c-360e-4802-98dc-71e7832f1fe9 If You're Happy and You Know it Write a Blog]. Montreal Gazette on canada.com. November 30, 2006.[http://wefeelfine.org/methodology.html We Feel Fine Methodology]. wefeelfine.org. The sentences and their attendant feelings are then organized and displayed visually in 6 distinct "movements" called Madness, Murmurs, Montage, Mobs, Metrics, and Mounds.[http://wefeelfine.org/movements.html We Feel Fine Movements]. wefeelfine.org. Users navigate between the movements in an applet.Russell, Kate. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7039893.stm Webscape]. bbc.co.uk. October 12, 2007. Kamvar and Harris have made a We Feel Fine API available with the intent of allowing other artists to create pieces about human emotion.Driver, Erica. [http://smartdatacollective.com/erica-driver/39527/what-mood-world Harvesting Data: What is the Mood of the World?]. Smart Data Collective. August 27, 2011. The site currently collects approximately 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings every day.[https://www.pbs.org/design/2011/08/j-harris-storytelling.php Interactive Storytelling with Jonathan Harris]. pbs.org. August 5, 2011. Since its launch in 2006, We Feel Fine has also been exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, and festivals, including:

Kamvar and Harris took the findings from the four years since We Feel Fine was launched in 2006 and turned them into a book called "We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion".Whelan, Christine. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-whelan/the-10-most-common-feelin_b_374456.html The 10 Most Common Feelings Worldwide]. The Huffington Post. December 1, 2009. It was released on December 1, 2009 by Scribner.[http://www.dailycandy.com/washington-dc/article/77772/We-Feel-Fine-by-Jonathan-Harris-and-Sepandar-Kamvar Nothing More Than Feelings]. Daily Candy. December 1, 2009.[http://kamvar.org/social_text_mining Social Data Mining]. kamvar.org. While the website presents the most recent feelings mined by the data collection engine, the book does a deeper statistical analysis of the approximately 12 million feelings collected up to the point of publication.Popova, Maria. [http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/12/03/we-feel-fine-book/ We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion]. Brain Pickings. December 3, 2009. Sections of the book are viewable as jpegs on the We Feel Fine website.

We Feel Fine, in each of its forms, was received well by the public as well as critics, technology writers, and culture commentators. It has been featured in the New York Times, Wired, NPR, Fast Company, and BBC.Frank, Adam. [https://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2010/01/the_cloud_of_human_feeling_art_1.html The Cloud of Human Feeling]. NPR. January 11, 2010. In particular, We Feel Fine was highlighted in a number of "best of" or "Decade in Review" pieces.Kuang, Cliff. [http://www.fastcompany.com/pics/picassos-pixels-12-groundbreaking-pieces-digital-art#8 Picassos with Pixels: 12 Groundbreaking Pieces of Digital Art]. Fast Company. December 7, 2009.Walker, Alissa. [http://www.good.is/post/the-decade-in-design The Decade in Design]. GOOD Magazine. December 23, 2009. The site was praised by Reuters and New York Magazine who referred to it as a "mesmerizing visual experiment" and "astonishing and brilliant."[https://www.reuters.com/video/2007/04/02/getting-human-feelings-on-the-web?videoId=47353 Getting Human Feelings on the Web]. Reuters. April 2, 2007[http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/29419/ The Approval Matrix]. New York Magazine. March 18, 2007. From a design and technology perspective, the commentary centered around We Feel Fine as one of the defining examples of the potential for internet-based art and data visualization. In 2010, NPR, in its "Cosmos and Culture" feature stated that We Feel Fine "takes the cloud of feeling humans have always unconsciously moved through and makes it explicit, dynamic and global."

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• [http://wefeelfine.org/ We Feel Fine]
• [https://books.google.com/books/about/We_Feel_Fine.html?id=Lz5U6zbGX3wC We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion] on Google Books (2009) {{ISBN|1-4391-1683-0}}
• [http://www.kamvar.org/ Sep Kamvar Official Website]
• [http://www.number27.org/index.html Jonathan Harris Official Website]

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