This project explores digital book-burning, and literary censorship. What happens when book censorship is no longer manifested in great fires, when their suppression is not replaced by the smell of smoke anymore?
Material and dramatic gestures, such as burning a physical book, call for dramatic responses, but what happens when we move to a digital environment and censorship becomes “invisible”? What does the concept of “digital book-burning” represent in an increasingly digital world? How does the Internet impact in our perception of the written word?
In order to expose the necessity and pertinence of asking this questions in the moment we live, an algorithm was developed, exploring mutability and fluidity of the written word once it moves to the screen. In a second an entire classic book is hacked, words are repositioned altering the text’s message and meaning.