Emoticons are state of the art at new show staged by Eyebeam Art+Technology Center

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Those silly smiley faces that you text to your friends are now works of art.

The “millennial” generation uses such emoticons — from the original Japanese “emojis” — to express themselves when words are just too cumbersome.

Naturally, artists are now commenting on the younger generation’s decision to shun sentences for high-tech hieroglyphs of gusts of wind, smiley faces or even grinning piles of poop.

The three-day show, now through Saturday at Eyebeam Art+Technology Center, consists of interactive exhibits tracing the popularity of emojis; watercolors of smiley faces that riff on pop art; wallpaper studded with ghosts, lightning bolts, alien heads and winged stacks of money; a 400-pound sculpture of Facebook’s thumbs-up icon made of concrete and rebar; and digital prints that reinterpret iconic art history images.

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