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The Bible + CODE Series

The Bible is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures. It is a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and Humans for Christians, Jews, and Samaritans. It has tremendously influenced literature and history in the Western world. It is one of the most influential and best-selling books of all time.

The Bible + CODE Series is a collection of a typographic journey to explore life’s philosophical and religious meanings from presenter Yeohyun Ahn since 2010. It uses themes inspired by the scriptures using creative coding and typography.

This presentation will include generative visualization processes from conceptualization to development for the audience to understand the computational typography processes.

Speaker

Yeohyun Ahn

Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Interaction Design University of Wisconsin Madison

Yeohyun Ahn is a designer, educator, and researcher integrating creative coding, digital fabrication, and physical interaction into spatial typography and graphic design. Her interdisciplinary typography project, TYPE + CODE Series, has been featured in the Washington Post, PRINT, the New York Times, and many other publications. Ahn’s new project, Social Homelessness on US Campuses, is a multidisciplinary art and design project intended to bring awareness to Asian female faculties in America. Immigrating to America led Ahn to become aware of social inequity, discrimination, and marginality. She currently explores generative self-portrait photographs showing social homelessness and being isolated and marginalized in professional areas of American society. This project has been presented through SIGGRAPH, ISEA, ARTECH, and IEEE GEM, etc. Ahn was a freelance graphic artist featured in the New York Times Magazine and has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.