Ideas & Craft

Talks on minds, machines, maps and letters: how things work and how people find things out.

Self Models of Loving Grace
Sep 23, 2026 · 1 hr
Joscha Bach on how minds model themselves, and what that means for artificial intelligence. Recorded at 38C3.
The Art of Text Rendering
Sep 23, 2026 · 38 min
Nicolas Rougier on how letters get onto screens, from Gutenberg to GPUs. Recorded at 39C3.
How I Found a Roman Villa
Sep 24, 2026 · 23 min
A volunteer with a single potsherd and free mapping tools locates a lost Roman building. Recorded at EMF 2024.
Automated Science at Sea
Sep 24, 2026 · 28 min
An AI-captained research ship crosses the Atlantic collecting ocean data. Recorded at EMF 2022.
Variable Fonts: It Was Never About File Size
Sep 24, 2026 · 44 min
Nine years of playful, unexpected uses of variable fonts in typography. Recorded at 39C3.