The web 2.0 movement has developed through user generated content and social networking. Social and personal information is freely exchanged and communicated by the users of these sites, and this information is constantly updated and accessed. The accounts of users’ lives are shared, updated, and communicated though web 2.0 websites such a Twitter and Facebook.

Status 2.0 uses a combination of technologies to interpret and map these digitized emotions into physical format, using colour and light to convey the emotion expressed on web 2.0

The technology involved in the installation uses PHP and Processing programming languages to search a live RSS feed from www.twitter.com for a combination of fifty words, abbreviations and characters, which are employed to express emotion by the users of the site.

These emotions are converted into RGB colour values and are then passed to an Arduino board, controling the analogue circuitry.

Organic materials - wood and cotton - alongside analogue technologies - light bulbs, dimmer switches and stepper motors - are used to transform digital information into a richer, analogue form.

A number of colour pyschologies have been used to map colour against emotion. Specific colours have been allocated to particular words and symbols, and this allows for the expression of emotion via radiated light.

The combination of digital, analogue and organic materials express the emotions through a physical display. The aim is to transform the emotion expressed in a remote digital environment into a physical, immediate and aesthetic installation.