The OGs by FAR is a vibrant series of 2,048 digital paintings that remix the language of the internet into art.
Blending hand-drawn emojis with generative code, AI and painterly techniques, the project transforms familiar digital symbols into expressive, glitchy relics of online culture.
Each piece in The OGs begins with a hand-drawn emoji that is then reinterpreted through generative algorithms, distortion tools, and digital painting processes, creating unique hybrids of human gesture and machine logic. Emojis, first developed in Japan in the late 1990s, have become the most universal language of the internet—tiny images that carry emotion, irony, and identity across cultures. By treating these symbols as artistic subjects, FAR reflects on how visual communication has evolved from cave paintings to pixels, and how emotion persists through every technological shift. The OGs positions the emoji not just as a tool of expression but as an artifact of digital history, capturing the texture of our online lives in painterly form.
Each piece in The OGs begins with a hand-drawn emoji that is then reinterpreted through generative algorithms, distortion tools, and digital painting processes, creating unique hybrids of human gesture and machine logic. Emojis, first developed in Japan in the late 1990s, have become the most universal language of the internet—tiny images that carry emotion, irony, and identity across cultures. By treating these symbols as artistic subjects, FAR reflects on how visual communication has evolved from cave paintings to pixels, and how emotion persists through every technological shift. The OGs positions the emoji not just as a tool of expression but as an artifact of digital history, capturing the texture of our online lives in painterly form.
The OGs is a series of 2,048 digital paintings that blend generative art, code, AI and digital painting to reimagine the world’s most universal symbols, the emojis, as painterly digital relics.
Each work begins with a hand-drawn emoji that is transformed by algorithms into new visual forms, merging human gesture with computational process. The result is a hybrid between painting and code where emotion and technology meet.
Emojis are treated as cultural fossils, carrying traces of our shared digital language while evolving through distortion and abstraction. The collection spans twelve rarity tiers, from Common Core icons to ultra-rare Digital Relics, each with its own visual style, from soft blurs to vibrant glitches.
Rooted in early web aesthetics and post-internet art, The OGs celebrates the imperfections of the digital age and continues FAR’s exploration of how contemporary painting can exist through algorithms and pixels.
