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Hollowbound Book

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Text, Design, Programming and Score by Erik Loyer
February 2003

Launch Project 		Featured in the 2003 California Design Biennial

Hollowbound Book is an interactive response to N. Katherine Hayles’ book Writing Machines, in which a newly liberated book binding testifies to its liberation at the hands of Hayles’ theories.  Commissioned for Peter Lunenfeld’s Mediaworks pamphlet series.

Hollowbound Book Screenshot 1

1. The piece opens with a poetic invocation of N. Katherine Hayles’ book Writing Machines.

Hollowbound Book Screenshot 2

2. The text of the project is the monologue of a book binding come to life.

Hollowbound Book Screenshot 3

3. At each stage in the text, the user is presented with an animated (and often interactive) composition illustrating the point being made.

Hollowbound Book Screenshot 4

4. At the end of the piece, the user can literally reshape Hayles’ text within the confines of a virtual book.