KomunIKON representatives will give talks at 3 prestigious academic conferences: 1) July 8th: SciLang 2022, a conference on holistic integration of languages into science and science into languages, University of Lancaster (Cesco Reale, Laura Meloni, Andriana Georgieva) Science and Modern Languages are often misperceived as being “separate”. Although science and languages are rarely discussed…
The Polyglot Gathering takes place every year in spring. It is the world’s biggest international event for polyglots and language lovers. Every presentation, activity, and social program is related to languages; this year, as in 2021, we presented our Ludikon Game at the Polyglot Gathering online. The game was run via Zoom by Cesco Reale…
The paper “From Hieroglyphs to Emoji, to IKON: The Search of the (Perfect?) Visual Language” authored by some members of the KomunIKON team (Cesco Reale, Marwan Kilani, Araceli Giménez, Nadu Barbashova, Roman Oechslin) was published by Springer International Publishing in the proceedings of the DUXU conference 2021 (the 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN, USER EXPERIENCE…
Some members of the KomunIKON team have met at the exhibition about visual languages in Freiburg, Germany. Jochen Gros, creator of Piktoperanto, also joined the group. Special thanks to the Museum für Neue Kunst for their kind acceptance.
The magazine Il Chiasmo of the Treccani Encyclopedia used this phrase in IKON for the interview “Inclusive language. An overview”. https://www.treccani.it/magazine/chiasmo/extra/linguaggioinclusivo.html
KomunIKON was invited to present a talk and to participate in a panel at the Emoji Workshop 2021. Here you can find the presentation of the talk. An iconic language, beyond Emoji: the KomunIKON project. (Cesco Reale, KomunIKON) The KomunIKON project (www.komunikon.com) is developing an iconic language to translate potentially any sentence into…
Düren Leopold-Hoesch-Musuem, until April 11, 2021 Freiburg Musuem für Neue Kunst, Freibug, May 6 – September 12, 2021 The exhibition Pictograms, Signs of Life, Emojis: The Society of Signs compiles a rich variety of visual languages, starting with Köln Progressiv, a socially engaged group of artists including Gerd Arntz. Arntz would later become an important…