michael tank & dustin o’hara, 2007
for university cooperative housing association, los angeles, ca
an analog, interactive experiment in marketing and community memory, complete with anonymous lipstick hickeys and a raucous, publicly editable anagram installation, some hoot euphorically was a bold attempt to think “outside of the box” in book design by literally putting the book into a box. with ikea-like instructions in the dozen primary languages spoken within the co-op community and mass produced technical and textual design, the participant was invited to distort and mutilate the product and thus create their own individual memory of the community through the cutting and pasting of paper – an analog for the mutability of memory as it exists in our own psyches. the product also included a social change manual with community building strategies to increase social cohesion, public empowerment, and joy
4/16: YEARBOOK: PHOTOS TODAY DINNERTIME
4/17: YEARBOOK: HANDSOME PROTO IDENTITY
4/18: YEARBOOK: MODERNITY’S DEATH POTION
4/19: HYPERMEDIA STORYBOOK DETONATION
4/20: IN TOP THEORY, NOBODY RADIATE SMOKE
