Inspiration for Emograms
A news article provided the inspiration for the emograms: in 2015, Oxford Dictionaries chose an emoji pictogram as the word of the year (Emoji is a Japanese word, where ‘e’ stands for picture + ‘moji’ for character). I found this very exciting: humanity started written communication using drawings and pictograms, then constantly simplified these into letters and characters.
Following the birth and intensification of mobile and computer-based communication, we started to re-create drawings and pictograms from characters and letters. Finally, we got rid of characters again, sometimes even of words and returned to the use of emojis and icons. We incorporated them into our daily communication. In my work, I put the lost words back into the emojis. This is how emograms were born.
— kissmiklos
Emogram exhibitions and shows
BEIJING TIMES ART MUSEUM, Beijing
GWANGJU BIENNALE, Gwangju
LOTTE GALLERY, Incheon
CQIFS, Chongqing
TIMES SQUARE PLAZA, Hong Kong
MIXC, Hefei
Emograms x NFTs
In 2021 came the idea to create an experiment and bring the Emograms collection onto a blockchain as an NFT(non-fungible token). Ethereum was the main preference as it has the largest community and user base.
As a limited concept only 99 pieces of Emograms are auctioned in an Emograms marketplace. After the auction ends all the Emograms are freely tradable on the Emograms marketplace, until the ERC-2981 NFT royalty standard gets implemented by all the leading marketplaces (OpenSea, Rarible, etc.). After industry-wide implementation Emograms are freely tradable on any platform of choice.
Physical Emogram Sculptures
An addition to the digital versions is the physical sculpture redemption. Any owners is eligible to redeem 11 SRT (sculpture redemption token) to receive a physical Emogram sculpture. These 30 cm diameter sculptures are shipped to the redeemer anywhere in the world in exchange for the redemeed tokens.
Each Emogram purchased through the initial auction is rewarded by 1 SRT token and as the auction ends a Uniswap pool will be created for SRT liquidity with an additional 11 SRTs.
