About this researchInteractive snapshot · historical Emerge data · 4 Sep 2026
Question

How can a large visual archive be read as a system of affinities, repetitions and ruptures rather than a feed?

Method

Works are arranged through seven projections: medium, emotion, colour, semantic similarity, theme, series and time.

Finding

Themes, colour and emotion produce the clearest structures. Time, series and medium currently reveal corpus imbalance and should be read as data diagnostics.

How to read it

Choose a mode, open a cluster, then a work. Zoom and drag the map; work captions come from the bilingual public catalogue.

C O S M O S

An interactive atlas of Emerge's visual archive: mediums, emotion, colour, similarity, themes, series and time.

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