Another research developed in the Venice Biennale for Ubiqua, called “Mimicon,” explored the expressive possibilities of human gestures as a universal language. We are dealing with an archaic thought that activates primordial connections with speech, and is rooted in the human kinaesthetic experience, in our being in the world, as no artificial intelligence can ever be. An immersive alphabet that is inherent in our human being, well placed by the gravity of our planet with our feet on the earth turned to the sky.
Mimicon, 2004
Gesture becomes primarily “psychogram,” and is distinguished from ideogram and pictogram in that it is oriented to represent emotions, expressed universally by gestures. Mimicon anticipated the gestures later widespread in electronic writing. Emoticons, facial expressions made by unusual composition of punctuation marks, became pervasive in E.Mail, Chat and Post texts.
Emoticons from Messenger
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