Emotional Metabolism

Project Description

Exhibited at Re-enchanting Daily Life, 2021 Tech Art Campus Exhibition

Can emotions be eaten?

At the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, human beings survive through "digestion and metabolism". However, in a society with sensitive and overwhelming mental illness, depression, irritability, fear, collapse, and various emotional vocabulary erodes and deprive people's will to survive. It seems that emotion is no longer just a kind of civilization disease, it has become a common problem of all social strata. Namely, "possessing positive emotions" has become a necessary condition for human existence.

Emotions are forgotten through time and process, but the length of time is often untestable. "If emotions can be eaten", is it possible to metabolize negative emotions and absorb positive emotions in order to maintain the human will to survive?

Create an "emotional metabolism system", link the emotional factors in the brain, and use the "digestive system" as a medium to provide a customized recipe for emotions. The digestive system provides the body's calories and metabolizes emotions, so as to achieve the necessary conditions for the "survival" of modern people at the same time.

As for the interactive illustration, people can put on headphones for a secret psychological test, extracted from research, analyzing different emotional status by professors at National Taiwan Normal University. After the test, users can view the files I designed, regarding the content of the test, the relationship between physiology and emotion and how my system operates. At the end, The screen will present your emotional recipe in real time. People can eat food, made of jelly, in the shape of a brain, at the corresponding part. In addition, you can also use four seasonings, which can appropriately alleviate specific negative emotions.