You can read the average for the city on the website. In two cities, Stockholm and Seoul, the outcome of the moment is projected on large buildings. Each colour stands for a different emotion.

New Public Space

It is part of a series of the artist's work, finding new meanings for the urban public realm.

Erik Krikortz: "For me, art is not about creating beautiful object, but to create meaningful experiences. I make projects which are in different ways participatory and interactive. I use preexisting structures for communication, and everyday technologies, which are sometimes new technologies. The potential is that art can get integrated into the stream of everyday life, it can be made non-exclusive."

"In the project Emotional Cities, I used an already existing light installation, and created a participatory interface on a website. Anyone can take part and tell their emotions, all emotions are summarized into constantly updating statistics, and the emotions correspond to colors which are projected on big buildings, here in Stockholm."

"It shows the turbulence in the downtown areas in these cities, and become a kind of social platform. The idea was really about showing the people the dimensions of space and time in these cities. And the colours change with time and relate to the collective emotions of the city. This has the kind of ability to make the city negociable and tangible."

New Monuments

An important part of Erik's projects is creating new monuments in public space. Monuments of people here and now: "Monumental large scale projects in a way measure space, they may connect center to suburb, people to one another. Instead of classical monuments which tell predefined stories of bravery, heroism, nationalism, these are soft, emotional, changing monuments." In his work 'Stockholm-Belgrade', he took a modern monument: a wooden bench in public space that had been carved by neonazis. He took it on a road trip to Belgrade, trying to get a new discussion going between Western and Central Europe.

Public space is one of the connecting themes of Erik's work. Public space in it's broadest sense: "Internet as a new public space, and as the most important new medium from the last decades, intertwines in the project, and makes it reach further, and connect to even more remote places."

See also

- Erik Krikortz's website
- The Emotional Cities website
- A similar project called D-toren in Doetinchem
- The upcoming Inspiring Cities Night about urban screens and projections: The Urban Screenscape