Emerji
emerji.org
Team
Beth Ferguson
Sara Dean
Bo Peng, student intern
EMERJI is a set of emoji for climate change and emergency response. The world is experiencing increased extreme weather and disaster as we feel the effects of climate change. Emerji helps us talk about these global threats and experiences through the language we use to talk about everything else ... emoji. Emerji uses emoji as a readily-accessible communication tool, popularizing disaster reporting through existing social media and texting platforms. Emerji is a free and open-source project. The Emerji set is currently available on the Apple App Store as a free sticker app. We are in communication with Unicode to adopt Emerji into their global emoticon character set.
Exhibitions
Oliver Art Center Gallery,Oakland, CA, 2017
Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, 2017
Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, 2018
Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain, 2022
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, 2022
Media
Mary Halton, “Could an emoji save your life?,” BBC News, 2018
Anna Lisa Bonfranceschi, “Di quali altre emoji avremmo bisogno?” Wired Italy, 2018
Cosimi, Simone. “Un’emoji può salvarti la vita? La battaglia per quella sul terremoto,” La Repubblica, 2018
Cheney, Catherine. “What could emojis bring to disaster response?” Devex, 2017
Landes, Nora. “Why Emoji Matters,” Artsy, 2016