frug

the story:
"in the year 2000 a large computernetwork threatens mankind. the onlyhope is the asexual frug nelson, half person, half mushroom.
on his rump frug has a ps/3-connection, which enables him to speak to computers.
the worldgovernment has only a very last hope: frug nelson!"

about the book:
"the author, born in 1983, wrotes this book already in 1979.
steve michaelis narrates the story of "frug nelson" from thecomputernetworks point of view, therefor he creates a newsystemlanguage.
the computernetwork in "frug" did not work with the binarycode, it usesa new optical colorcode. every pixel has one of 16.777.216 possiblecolors, they are combined in blocks of 16 pixels. so the network hasthe number of 3,94020062 × 10115 different informations."

Studyproject Summersemester 2008
at Hochschule Anhalt (FH) Department of Design Dessau
Lecturer: Prof. Bernd Hennig

256 pages
20 cm x 26 cm
open thread-stitching
A0 poster, fold as bookcover
digitalprint

the topic of the course was "zufall" (random/coincidence)
i started with the creation of 50 different graphics, based of different randomparameters (size, three colors, font, picture, content, date, duration). these 50 graphics were uploaded to flickr, while using a bug, and finaly put together to the most colorfull scifi novel of all time.

fabianjochenkanzler.de





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