Niki Selken (MFA DT) will be featuring her web art project, The Emoji Dictionary, at the Currents: Santa Fe International New Media Festival from June 12 – 28! Niki will also be giving a talk about her project during the festival entitled, Emoji is Everywhere.

About The Emoji Dictionary: The Emoji Dictionary is the first crowdsourced Emoji resource on the web. Similar to Wikipedia, they rely on the community to share, build and define the Emoji that have so long remained shrouded in mystery. As the Emoji Dictionary grows so will our understanding of the myriad of meanings these symbols have for thousands of people across the world.  It is a mobile, responsive, website built with PHP and MySQL that allows users to search and add their own definitions to each of the Emoji.