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We Feel Fine featured in the Halifax Daily News.

We Feel Fine featured on BBC Radio's The World Today.

We Feel Fine featured on CBC Radio Saskatchewan's Blue Sky.

We Feel Fine featured on CBC Radio Alberta's Wildrose Country.

We Feel Fine featured on the front page of Digg (again). Digg this story

We Feel Fine featured in Edmonton Journal.

We Feel Fine exhibited in Fabrica's I've Been Waiting For You Exhibition in Seoul, Korea.

We Feel Fine receives a 2006 Pixel Award.

We Feel Fine featured in Portland, Oregon's Willamette Week.

We Feel Fine featured in LA Times Calendar Live.

We Feel Fine exhibited in Manifesto/GenArt Exhibition in Prague, Czechoslovokia.

We Feel Fine featured in Hartford Advocate.

We Feel Fine chosen as Yahoo's Pick of the Day.

We Feel Fine featured in Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything Radio Show.

We Feel Fine featured Yahoo's The Nine Radio Show.

We Feel Fine featured in the UK magazine .net.

We Feel Fine featured in The New Statesman.

We Feel Fine featured in Time Out New York.

We Feel Fine featured on Cool Hunting.

We Feel Fine featured on the front page of Digg. Digg this story

We Feel Fine featured on Josh Spear's popular blog.

We Feel Fine featured on K10K.

We Feel Fine featured on Drawn.

Cindy Gallop, former chairman of BBH USA writes a piece about We Feel Fine for Adotas, an advertising and marketing publication.

Remon Tijssen features We Feel Fine on the well-loved design portal Newstoday.

New media writer Andrew Haig covers We Feel Fine on his One + One = Three blog.

We Feel Fine featured on the front page of the Processing website. We Feel Fine is built using Processing, an open-source software project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas.

We Feel Fine featured on Germany's popular Spiegel.de.

We Feel Fine featured on Marius Watz's Generator X blog.

Acclaimed new media writer Andy Polaine covers We Feel Fine on his Playpen blog.

We Feel Fine and Lovelines featured on the wonderful Information Aesthetics blog.

We Feel Fine featured on Eyebeam.

We are happy to announce the launch of two new works – We Feel Fine and Lovelines – on the same day. Below is our statement for Lovelines:

Lovelines ( www.love-lines.com ) is an exploration of human desire.

Through large scale blog analysis, Lovelines illuminates the topography of the emotional landscape between love and hate, as experienced by countless normal humans keeping personal online journals.

Using a data collection engine created by the artists for their recent collaboration, We Feel Fine, Lovelines examines thousands of blogs every few minutes to find expressions of love and hate, posted by all manner of people. When it can, Lovelines identifies and saves the age, gender, and geographical location of the person who wrote the post, and then presents that information along with the post. The entries range from frivolous to profound, offering a glimpse into the hearts and minds of people blogging about their wants and needs.

Lovelines presents a stark white screen, bounded on the bottom by a slider running from “Love” to “Hate”, with a draggable heart that becomes scratched out to the point of illegibility as the heart approaches “Hate”. As the slider is pulled through Love, Like, Want, Indifference, Dislike, and Hate, words and pictures appear above to represent the chosen state of desire or despair.

Lovelines is structured around three movements: “Words”, “Pictures”, and “Superlatives”. Words and Pictures iteratively present individual examples of human desire, while Superlatives provides a daily zeitgeist of the most loved, wanted, liked, and hated things. Interactive timelines represent the changing magnitude of love and hate over time, and allow navigation into the past.

The artists were invited to make this piece by Oral Fixation Mints ( www.oralfix.com ), a breath mint company devoted to “making everyday objects beautiful”, of which Jonathan Harris is a co-founder. We realize that the heart of all fixations is the desire to own, possess, and consume. Great desires imitate the physics of giant pendulums: the higher they rise, the deeper they fall. In this sense, love is inextricably tied to hate, desire to despair. Lovelines walks the line between these two extremes, painting pictures of the shifting landscape of desire.

Constructed entirely from found artifacts – words and pictures posted to blogs – Lovelines draws its identity from a world of strangers, brought together by shared degrees of desire.

- Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar, May 2006