As part of a workshop during my time at my design school, I curated an artist book. The workshop aimed to explore the book beyond its traditional codex form, encouraging experimentation with its shape, structure, medium, materiality and physicality. Usability was set aside in favor of pure experimentation and exploration which really opened avenues to making without the idea of user-centricity. The book is is based on a snippet from - The Original Accident by Paul Virelio - The title: A Dysfunctional Digital book.

The book, shaped like a tunnel, is comprised of frames that symbolize different stages in the passage of time. Drawing from Paul Virilio's ‘The Original Accident,’ Virilio interprets one of Aristotle's remarks on the ‘passage of time’ illuminating the concept that every entity ultimately succumbs to accidents or catastrophes as time progresses

In my book I interpreted technology through the passage of time (the tunnel shape) in my book, the fractured screen or the arrangement of frames in a tunnel-like structure can be interpreted as a sequence of such events unfolding over time.

View it here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rosvuMsEZAHOYmedEMezw6UtnrRvq9uy/view

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