 Session 1/3 Poetry, Bots, Humans, and Language Poets Allison Parrish and Sam Creely discuss the increasing complexity of a conversation when visual or written language is transcribed into a digital environment. Whether a poem created through machine-based learning or a notated dance, conversations made through technology still contain the explicit structures and artifacts of their original language. |  Session 2/3 Emoji and the Evolution of Communication As of September 2021, there are 3,633 emoji in the Unicode Standard, and they continue to grow as a language and perhaps even have the potential to form an emoji dialect. Jennifer 8. Lee is the founder of Emojination, a grassroots group whose motto is “Emoji by the people, for the people.” |
 Session 3/3 The Role of Graphic Design in Technology New tools, technologies, and techniques are impacting the expanding field of graphic design: a discipline that has transcended its role as commercial art practice, to that of an essential and universal tool for communicating a multi-dimensional experience through type and image across a diverse landscape of traditional and emerging media. Our panel of educators and professionals—Mike Abbink, Brad Bartlett, and Lucienne Roberts—discuss the continuing impact of technology on typography and design. |
