Program


Welcome & coffee
Welcome
Introduction by the Moderator, Carina Fernandes
Marian Markelo
Opening ceremony
Tim Brookes
Where Does Writing Come From?
The origins and genesis of writing, both as a cultural manifestation and as an individual act, are far less clear--and far more interesting--than we are generally led to believe.  Drawing on his research for both the Entering Otherworlds exhibition and his forthcoming book By Hand, Tim Brookes examines the role of the imagination and the human body in initiating and shaping the act of writing.
Sarojini Lewis
A Shift of Identity
Synopsis will be announced shortly
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Books from Otherworlds

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Guided tours or visit of the exhibitions Édouard Glissant Hans-Ulrich Obrist’s archive, Labyrinth Within by Razia Barsatie & Sarojini Lewis, The Department of Destruction by Shivani Gowda and Writing Systems of the Otherworld by Tim Brookes & Edgar Walthert.

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Hansje van Halem
Text, Textures, Textile
In her work, Hansje van Halem explores the fluid boundaries between typography, text, and texture. Through a playful and process-driven approach, she investigates how one thing can transform into the other. Her work reveals how letters, like woven threads, create both meaning and surface.
Louwrien Wijers
We live in language
‘Language is not just a tool, but is the domain which makes us human. It is not that we learn language, it’s more that language learns us. Man is made by language. We live in language. Language is the medium in which we all exist,’ said neuro-scientist Francisco Varela in our five-day symposium Art meets Science and Spirituality in a changing Economy in 1990 in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
In this session, artist and thinker Louwrien Wijers revisits that moment, opening a dialogue with the audience on the nature of language, the legacy of the symposium, and the continuous conversation between art, science, and spirituality. Marianne Mispelaëre
Title and synopsis will be announced shortly

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So-Hyun Bae
Title and synopsis will be announced shortly
Nunzio Mazzaferro, Franco Jonas & Ariq Syauqi
Titles and synopsis will be announced shortly
Anushah Hossain
At the Edges of Encoding: Experimental Scripts and the Limits of Unicode
The Unicode Standard underpins almost all digital writing today, shaping which scripts can circulate and endure online. Designed for permanence, it sets strict criteria for what counts as a stable, fully realized system, as once a script is encoded, it is there for life. But what does this mean for newer, experimental, or unsettled scripts then, those that do not yet clear that bar? Such systems may arise from creative experimentation or from efforts to represent marginalized linguistic communities. This talk examines the principles behind Unicode’s conservatism and highlights how communities have found, and continue to search for, new ways to use their scripts online, at the edges of encoding.
Entering Otherworlds Colloquium
Moderated by Carina Fernandes

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