Using data from the Spotify API, I collected audio features from the songs in La La Land to answer one question: does the movie end on a note of hope or despair?

The answer was then visualized as a roller coaster track, representing the emotional ups and downs the movie has taken us on.

This piece was created during Impact!, a university workshop that invited participants to reflect on the ethical implications of technology and express those ideas through art.

The work questions how technology can organize human labor into increasingly standardized, efficient processes, that boost productivity and profit, but potentially at the cost of standardizing human thought itself.

To visualize this idea, I created three original paintings and then used Processing to sort every pixel by color, producing three final images that look strikingly similar despite starting from different artworks.