Based on the wildly popular Tumblr, prints from ‘Emojinal Art’ reimagine canonical paintings as, well, a bit more emotive.
Liza Nelson’s ‘IRL. LOL’ creates shrines to individual emoji. Says the artist: “They deserve to be observed and worshipped individually.”
Jeanette Hayes’ ‘Lichtensteinoji’ reimagines a Pop Art classic in what she calls today’s version of Ben-Day dots.
The create ‘Emoji Dick,” Fred Benson outsourced the translation of each one of ‘Moby Dick’s 10,000 lines to three separate workers, whose labor he crowdsourced on Mechanical Turk.
In ‘Transiconmorphosis,’ artists Emilio Vavarella and Fito Segrera sit back to back and chat; when an emoji is sent to one, muscle stimulators twist his face into the shape of the smiley.
“To be honest,” says the artists, “the frown hurts a little.”
‘Melroji Place’ translates ‘Melrose Place’ for the “emotionally challenged.”
Maya Ben-Ezer’s ‘Shift Key’ reimagines the typewriter keyboard as it may appear today.