iMessage UI Collages

Metadata

{
  "UUID": "81976be2-c208-4a7a-98fb-2b175a05f69d",
  "Title": "iMessage UI Collages",
  "ShortDescription": "Collages made with emojis in the iMessage app",
  "Year": 2024,
  "FeaturedWork": "FALSE",
  "URL": "imessage-ui-collages",
  "Modality": [
    "Digital"
  ],
  "Medium": [
    "Collage"
  ],
  "Tools": [
    "iOS"
  ],
  "Object": [
    "Digital image"
  ],
  "Collaborators": [
    "Toby Sherman"
  ],
  "Keywords": [
    "Communication",
    "Culture",
    "Technology"
  ]
}

Using native iMessage functinality as an art-making tool. Part of an ongoing exploration of iOS as a medium, in collaboration with Toby Sherman.

A back and forth between two artists where blank iMessages are painted using Apple's 'sticker' functionality and default emojis.

Display:

*	Title	Size (bytes)	View
	Camping	250,632
	Chess	150,803
	Tiger	218,072
	Filter	98,041
	Abstract I	153,513
	Abstract II	338,543
	Parachute	173,103
	NYC	94,002
	Messy table	119,913
	Clover	238,609
	Surf	161,794
	Volcano	130,080
	Cityscape	228,913
	Watercolour	233,784
	Tornado	189,744