Emojinating: Hooked Beings

Emoji are pictorial symbols encoded in the Unicode Standard and thus available in most of writing systems. The popularity of emoji is constantly increasing among both users and brands, used to represent more concepts each year. Due to the connection between their pictorial representation and associated semantic knowledge, they can be computationally exploited. Emojinating is a co-creative system that produces visual representation of concepts by visually blending existing emoji. This paper presents an installation that offers a sneak peek at the different stages of the co-creative process: co-creation, production and interpretation. It has a dual nature, being composed of videos that show the interaction between artist and computer, and a set of four finished artworks under the theme "Addictive behaviors in the digital Era".