Molecule
of
tone

“Molecule of Tone” is a web art project that shapes the tone of online news into visual forms. Using monthly news feed about the country Georgia, the project analyzes the emotional tone — whether negative, positive, or neutral. Each article becomes part of a molecular blob — a soft, flexible digital structure.

The work explores how what we read online can silently shape our feelings and judgments. The project asks: how do we form an opinion? After reading a single article, do we take the time to seek out more perspectives and question our initial conclusions? And how much of it is truly our own, versus what the media feeds us?

I created this project during my stay in Georgia as part of the Erasmus+ programme. After arriving, I realized I often had to explain that Georgia is a normal, peaceful country — not a place of conflict or confusion. This repeated experience made me reflect on how media influences the image we form about a place or people.

Each molecular form is shaped by data from the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) Project, which monitors global news to analyze emotional tone.