Talk (FR) given during the one-day symposium “Ladislas Mandel (1921-2006) ou l'humanisme de la lettre” at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, on June 11, 2018. ANRTABCD, Letter M

Some Clubs du Livre of my collection. Seminar given online during the Covid-19 confinement, on April 27, 2020. With Pierre Faucheux, Jacques Darche, Jacques Daniel et Massin. ANRTABCD, Letter T

Talk given EESAB Lorient, on January 28, 2018. The lives and deaths of John Baskerville. With John Baskerville, Caron de Beaumarchais, Voltaire, Sarah Eaves, Claude Jacob, Berger- Levrault, and Zuzana Licko. ANRTABCD, Letter B

Curation and scenography, with Alice Savoie, of the exhibition “TYPO’&!.,-:;? ANRT” at the Musée de l'imprimerie et de la communication graphique, in Lyon, presenting 30 years of ANRT archives. Nov 11, 2016 - Feb. 12, 2017.

About typography, paleontology, evolutionism, fixism, interpolation and miscegenation. Seminar given online during the Covid-19 confinement, on May 7, 2020. With Georges Cuvier, Jean-

Curation and organisation of the 1st edition of the Rencontres du IIIe Type at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, on Dec. 9, 2015. With Florence Codine (FR), John Hudson (CA), Joel Kavelsmaki (USA), Sarah Kremer (FR), Marcus Phillips (UK), Marc H.Smith (FR), Andreas Stötzner (DE)… Design by Sarah Kremer, Website by Thomas Bouville. Rencontres du 3e Type

On the transcription of ancient scripts, monks and confinement. Seminar given online during the Covid-19 confinement, on March 28, 2020. Featuring extracts from talks given at the Rencontres de Lure 2014, with Claude- Laurent François, and in Luxeuil, in october 2015. ANRTABCD, Letter C

Curation and organisation of the 2nd edition of the Rencontres du IIIe Type in Nancy, Campus ARTEM, on Feb. 19-20, 2018. With Ruedi Baur (FR), Johannes Bergerhausen (DE), Christopher Burke (UK), Sébastien Dégeilh , Antonio Silveira Gomes (FR-PT), Marie Flesch , Colin M. Ford (USA), Pierre Fournier, Charles Gautier, Jochen Gerner, Jérémie Hornus, Gaetan Baehr, Julie Soudanne, Black[Foundry] (FR), Paul D.Hunt (USA), Luna Kindler (BE), Aline Melaet (BE), Gilles Palsky, Éloïsa Pérez (FR), Luciano Perondi (IT), Morgane Pierson, Arthur Francietta, Anne-Lyse Renon, Charlène Cassier, Magali Massiera, Frédéric Rouffet (FR), Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer (AU), Shivay la bruja (FR), Coline Sunier, Charles Mazé (FR), Daniel Utz (DE).
Design by Jochen Gerner and Thomas Huot-Marchand, website by Thomas Bouville. Rencontres du 3e Type

In 1982, few months after the publication of Donald Knuth article The Concept of a Meta-Font, Visible Language publishes Meta-Font, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics : Comments on Donald Knuth’s « The Concept of  a  Meta-Font », by Douglas Hofstadter, an american professor of cognitive sciences. His remarks bring nuances to Knuth’s conclusions, addressing the problem from another point of view. His investigations in typography, in the field of artificial intelligence, subsequently appeared in the Letter Spirit project, where he tried to develop a program that is capable of developing an entire alphabet from a few seed letters, based on a very coarse grid. Years later, when the concepts of parametric fonts, AI and deep learning applied to type design reappeared, Hofstadter’s ideas are still relevant. Talks (FR / EN) given in Istanbul during Istype 2017, on June 10, and at the Fonderie de l'image in Paris, on November 13, 2018. ANRTABCD, Letter K

Talk given at ENSBA Lyon on November 6, 2018. About ophtalmogy, compact typography, marionnettes and stencils. With Louis-​Emile Javal & William Addison Dwiggins, and documents from Bruce Kennett, Eric Kindel and Fred Smeijers. ANRTABCD, Letter D

Curation and organisation of the ANRT conference Automatic Type Design. ARTEM Campus, Nancy (France), May 6, 2014. With Jacques André (FR), Johannes Bergerhausen (DE), Frederik Berlaen (BE), Erik Van Blokland (NL), Simon Egli (CH), Alice Savoie (FR), Richard Southall (UK)… Design and website by Thomas Bouville. Automatic Type Design

Seminar given at ANRT Nancy on Oct. 26, 2017. About revival, litterature and autorship. With John Downer, Miguel de Cervantès, Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Le Corbusier and a dog. ANRTABCD, Letter A