Dear William, dear list, the conference Alphabetica 2019 was held in The Hague at West, the museum of contemporary art: http://www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/19_11_Alphabetica <http://www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/19_11_Alphabetica>
West is located in the former US embassy, a brutalist building by Marcel Breuer (Bauhaus): www.westdenhaag.nl The Missing Scripts Project is a joint effort of Institut Designlabor Gutenberg (IDG), Hochschule Mainz, where I am teaching, Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (ANRT) Nancy and Script Encoding Initiative (SEI) Berkeley. Here you can find videos of all talks: www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/19_11_Alphabetica/more2 <http://www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/19_11_Alphabetica/more2> First step of the Missing Scripts Project is this website: www.worldswritingsystems.org All the best, Johannes > Am 27.12.2019 um 11:34 schrieb wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode > <unicode@unicode.org>: > > I searched on YouTube for > > Gutenberg Mainz > > and filtered for > > This week > > and I found 12 videos uploaded 3 days ago about a symposium called > Alphabetica 2019. > > Apparently held in Amsterdam. > > It seems that the videos were listed for that search as the notes include > > "Presented in collaboration with the Institut Designlabor Gutenberg > (Hochshule Mainz)," … [and several other organizations] > > so both the words Gutenberg and Mainz were matched to the search. > > So, a serendipitous discovery. > > There is an interesting section in one video about Bliss and a new > interesting development relating to the (possible) encoding of Bliss > characters into Unicode. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwj2KilAXmo > > Here are links to two videos of continuous walks through Mainz: each of them > includes the Statue of Gutenberg and the outside of the Gutenberg Museum yet > are otherwise almost non-overlapping in their routes. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scjLxGh17rA > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izqBUQkfByw > > William Overington > > Frisday 27 December 2019
