Category Archives: My Art

Stickers and Emojis are Candies for the Eye

Posted on April 30, 2022 by Noa Yaari

The arrangement of stickers and emojis on a sheet influences the thoughts the viewers have while looking at them. For example, “what car do I like most?” or “a grape cluster can fall just like a leaf,” and subsequently, “which … Continue reading →

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CRRS Fellows Workshop April 12: William Barker & Noa Yaari

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Noa Yaari

Please join me at the Fellows Workshop at the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, the University of Toronto on Tuesday, April 12, 4:00-5:30 pm (EDT). Follow this link for details and registration to the live zoom session: https://crrs.ca/event/fellows22/ William … Continue reading →

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Animated Filters and Shadows on Zoom

Posted on December 31, 2021 by Noa Yaari

I became aware of the animated filters on Zoom quite recently. They are one of my highlights of 2021. Engineers at Zoom, could you develop shadows for the objects that follow the user’s face?  Happy New Year!    

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How do you cite a caption with an emoji?

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Noa Yaari
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Using an Emoji in a Caption of a Painting

Posted on October 31, 2021 by Noa Yaari

I recently started to use an emoji of a book in the captions of my paintings for my art project at the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies at the University of Toronto, titled “Word and Image Relationships at the … Continue reading →

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How to Choose an Image for an Invitation

Posted on August 31, 2021 by Noa Yaari

The following isn’t an answer for the question positioned above, but rather several thoughts about the use of both words and images in a document. I’ll analyze an invitation that I recently prepared to my upcoming hands-on workshop at the … Continue reading →

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Art-based Knowledge Mobilization

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Noa Yaari

I’m currently participating in a course in Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) at York University, which is run in collaboration with the University of Winnipeg and Memorial University. Titled MobilizeU, it’s excellent. One of the things I appreciate most in it is … Continue reading →

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Lighter

Posted on May 31, 2021 by Noa Yaari

Noa Yaari, Lighter, 2005. Mixed media. Tel Aviv.

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Multiform Grammar: The Ripple Effect

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Noa Yaari

Combinations of words and images have a ripple effect that includes attracting attention to themselves, retaining that attention, penetrating to and residing in people’s long-term memory, and stimulating the echoing of the stored information. Combinations of words and images are, … Continue reading →

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Repetition and Variation

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Noa Yaari

Every combination of words and images includes both repetition and variation. For example, when we use a letter, symbol, word, or phrase more than once, or when shapes and colours reappear. Some of the repetitions result from an echo between … Continue reading →

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