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Encoding as an artistic practice: The ABCC of CACB
Visual Communication for a Contemporary Art Center might seem an unlikely entry point into encoding, but it is much more relevant than you may think.
For ten years, Coline Sunier and Charles Mazé were artists in residence at the Contemporary Art Center of Brétigny (CAC Brétigny), in the Paris suburbs. During this period they developed the museum’s visual identity, and their graphic work is now part of its collections. Over those years, they progressively enriched a digital font, LARA, incorporating signs found in the museum, in its surroundings, and in the works of contemporary artists featured in its exhibitions. Each sign is adapted typographically and correctly encoded, whether it be letters, symbols, emojis, or hieroglyphs.
Conducted in the art world, this project deals precisely with the act of encoding, and it has opened up the question of Unicode to an audience previously unaware of its existence.