交互装置
为了纪念Harvey Ball
灵感
2015年，牛津词典有史以来第一次选择了象形文字，确切地说，是一个表情符号，作为年度词汇。Emoji是一个日语单词，“e”表示图片，“moji”表示字母/字符。发音相似的英语单词emoticon(情感图标)帮助了这个日语单词的传播。
历史
表情符号的惊人崛起是一种迷人的文化和语言现象。它的历史可以追溯到从图片发展而来的现代文字的根源:象形文字和表意文字。
最早的文字来自于大约5000年前的埃及象形文字和美索不达米亚楔形文字。在公元前一千年早期，腓尼基字母成为中东、欧洲、北非和南亚多个书写系统的祖先。
表情符号是用分号、冒号和括号等字母符号组成的象形符号。“笑脸”诞生于1963年，当时美国一家广告公司的老板Harvey R. Ball想出了这个主意，想用它来鼓舞一家刚刚合并的保险公司员工的情绪。公司为他的发明支付了45美元，而他从未要求过这项发明的权利。然而，Nicolas Loufrani对这个词的起源持怀疑态度——据说在法国的一个洞穴中发现了一块4500年前的岩石，上面有一个“笑脸”。
1982年，卡内基梅隆大学教授Scott E. Fahlman输入了第一个:-)，表情符号从20世纪90年代末在日本手机上广泛使用开始，形式和种类不断增加，征服了世界的电子话语。到2015年底，象形文字被广泛使用，有史以来第一次，象形文字(即图片)被选为“2015年度词汇”。它们为当代数字对话注入了面部表情和手势，为基于文本的网络交流增添了人情味。这是一个令人眼花缭乱的反向转换:首先，象形文字变得简化和字母化，然后象形文字通过字母化的书写被重新发明。
Ball.Room安装
这个装置是一个面积为25平方米的透明房间，里面摆满了2015个黄色沙滩球。
这位艺术家使用14种不同字体的字符集(Avant Garde Gothic, Avenir, Frutiger, Helvetica, Eurostile, Futura, Courier, Didot, Trajan, Caslon, Baskerville, Garamond, Times, Pistilli)创作了65种不同的知名和新的表情符号。在展览结束时，参观者可以带回家一个球。作为交换，他们在卡片上写下自己选择的单词，并把它放在一个盒子里。在展览结束时，艺术家用出现频率最高的单词“展览之词”制作了一个新球。通过《Ball.Room》装置，艺术家和观众可以相互作用，将象形文字转化为字母表的书写形式。
艺术历史
本次展览的艺术史背景类似于Andy Warhol的Silver Clouds充气装置、荷兰的Florentijn Hofman的巨型鸭子Rubber duck、Geraldo Zamproni的充气红色Pillow Talk、FriendsWithYou充气雕塑、Kurt Perschke的Redball Project或Jeff Koons的气球仿金属雕塑。
装置位于匈牙利布达佩斯的Erzsébet tér 11号，邮编1051
INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
In memory of Harvey Ball.
Inspiration
For the first time in history, in 2015 the Oxford Dictionaries chose a pictogram, to be exact an emoji, as the word of the year. Emoji is a Japanese word, the ‘e’ means picture + ‘moji’ means a letter / character. The similar sounding English word emoticon (emotion icon) helped the Japanese word to spread.
History
The incredible rise of emojis is a fascinating cultural and linguistic phenomenon. Its history goes back to the roots of modern writing that developed from pictures: pictograms and ideograms.
The earliest examples of writing come from the pictographic Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform scripts around 5,000 years ago. During the early first millennium BC the Phoenician alphabet became the ancestor of multiple writing systems across the Middle East, Europe, northern Africa and South Asia.
Emoticons are pictograms that were created using alphabetical punctuation by like semicolons, colons and brackets. The „smiley“ was born in 1963 when Harvey R. Ball, owner of an advertising agency in the USA, came up with the idea to use it to lift the mood of the workers of a recently merged insurance company. The company has paid him 45 dollars for this invention that he never claimed the rights for. However, Nicolas Loufrani has some doubts about the origin - supposedly there is a 4500 years old rock that have been found in a French cave that has a „smiley“ on it.
1982 Scott E. Fahlman, a professor at the Carnegie Mellon University, typed the first :-) Starting from the widespread use on Japanese mobile phones in the late 1990’s, emojis multiplied in form and variety and conquered the world’s electric discourse. By the end of 2015 they were so widespread that - for the first time ever - a pictogram i.e. a picture was chosen as the ‘Word of the Year 2015”. They infuse contemporary digital conversations with facial expressions and gestures, adding a human touch the midst of text-based cyber communication. This is a buffling reverse transformation: first, pictography writing became simplified and alphabetical, then pictograms were reinvented by using alphabetical writing.
Ball.Room. Installation
The installation is a 25 m2 large, transparent room filled with exactly 2015 yellow beach balls.
The artist created 65 different well-known as wellas new emojis using 14 character sets of different typefaces (Avant Garde Gothic, Avenir, Frutiger, Helvetica, Eurostile, Futura, Courier, Didot, Trajan, Caslon, Baskerville, Garamond, Times, Pistilli). At the end oft he exhibition visitors can take home a ball. In exchange, they write down a word of their choice on a card and placeit in a box. At the end of the exhibition the artist createsa new ball with the word that comes up most frequently, "The Word of the Exhibition". With the Ball.Room. installation the artist and the visitors interactively transfer pictography back into alphabetic writing.
Art history
The exhibition has an art history background similar to Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds inflatable installation, the dutch Florentijn Hofman’s giant duck Rubber Duck, Geraldo Zamproni’s inflated red Pillow Talk, the FriendsWithYou inflated sculptures, Kurt Perschke’s Redball Project or Jeff Koons’s balloon imitating metal sculptures.
LOCATIONErzsébet tér 11., Budapest, Hungary, 1051
