Harris has described We Feel Fine as “basically a search engine for feelings.” Launched in 2005 and active until 2015, it scoured the web every ten minutes, searching for newly posted blog entries with the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling.” The system would record the full sentence, identify the feeling, and save the author’s age, gender, geographic location, and local weather conditions. The database of human feelings often increased by fifteen to twenty thousand new entries per day, resulting in a visualization of millions, with each feeling represented by a particle.

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Pirouette: Turning Points in Design, January 26, 2025–November 15, 2025

Medium Interactive software
Credit Gift of the designers
Object number 1080.2015
Department Architecture & Design

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