June 17 – 21, 2020
2020년 6월 17일 – 21일
Flexspace B, CICA Museum
Typographic Selfie + CODE
A selfie is a form of art. Over 1 million selfies are now taken every day. The typographic selfie + CODE is an updated version of Selfie + CODE. The Selfie + CODE is a collection of generative selfies taken by the artist to raise awareness of Asian female faculty being isolated and marginal in a predominantly white institution of the United States. The computational processes expend the concepts of traditional self-portraits to generative visual languages conveying specific thoughts or feelings. Typography is a form of art to make written language expressive by using letter forms, type, and text. Each typeface has own personality. Based on the type choices, different emotions and moods can be embedded and visually expressed through the generative selfies. The typographic selfie + CODE is visual research with diverse typefaces to implant visual expression into generative selfies.
Yeohyun Ahn is an award-winning typographer, interactive visual designer, and educator in pursuit of visual innovation throughout the collaboration between art, design, technology and journalism. Her works have been featured through Washington Post, PRINT, New York Times Magazine, Letter Arts Review, the Creator’s Project, Designboom.com, Rhizome.org, Fascodesign.com, Visual.ly, Designtaxi.com, creativemarket.com, etc. Her works have been published through Data-Driven Graphic Design in 2016, and Graphic Design: New Basics, in 2015 and Type on Screen, in 2014. She has received the Juror’s Choice Award at 2015 International Digital Media and Arts’ annual conference, 3rd Prize at a national juried exhibition, art + science, at Indiana University East, Honorable Mention in the 2011 National Juried Exhibition: Digital Work and Graduate Fellowship from the Master of Fine Arts Program at Maryland Institute College of Art in 2009. She worked as a freelance graphic artist in the New York Times magazine. She taught at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago State University, and Valparaiso University. Now she is an assistant professor in the Art department at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Having immigrated last two decades as a designer in America brings her to be aware of social inequity, discrimination, and marginality. Currently, she explores computational graphic art for social homelessness being isolated and marginal in professional areas of American society.
Yeohyun Ahn, “Typographic Selfie + CODE : Helvetica Version 3.0” (2019)