Salditch is one of the curators for the Emoji Art and Design Show, an exhibition that recently opened at Eyebeam. Like emoticons or ASCII art, emoji have been transformed from a visual vernacular ...

In Japan, a unique ASCII art culture such as emoticons has developed in computer communication since the 1980s. From the end of the 1990s to the 2000s, it grew rapidly centered on 2channel ...

Five years or so ago, I wrote in this slot about emoticons—those smiley-face icons cobbled together from punctuation marks that speckled our online communications in the days when ASCII art seemed the ...