Another network related book work. Electrolibrary (this is the website part of the work) by Waldek Węgrzyn is a book that connects via USB to a computer to control a website. The work was designed for his diploma thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland.

The book can be browsed…by turning pages, you can navigate through the website, getting additional information, quotations, movies and animations appropriate to the currently open page.

The content of the book is Waldek’s diploma thesis discussing phenomenon of a book as an inteface. The text contains number of references to different works, but the major inspiration is the manifesto “The topography of typography” published in 1923 by a graphic designer El Lissitzky which has also influenced the design of the book.

Originally seen on Digital MediaArts Numériques.

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