Giant smiley face tower broadcasts the mood of German town

This may seem like a sinister societal technology experiment conduct by a dystopian sugar - shock dictator , but it ’s just the Fühlometer , a performance art small-arm byJulius von Bismarck , Benjamin Maus , andRichard Wilhelmer . ExplainsWilhelmer ’s internet site :

“ Fuehlometer ” ( feeling - type O - meter ) or “ Public Face ” is an synergistic art installation that shows the mood of a city by displaying it in the cast of a monumental Smiley . The organisation allows to read emotion out of random the great unwashed ’s faces . The faces are analyze by sophisticated software ( contributed by the Fraunhofer Institut ) . The hold climate data are then stash away on a server and processed by the smiley to visualize the emotions in literal - time .

Here ’s the piece on presentation in 2010 at Lindau Island in Germany . Could these be found across the landed estate as public indicator of theNational Happiness Index ?