"Bibliotheca Digitalis: Three phases of Digitisation", another form of AR

Several books are placed on a table with a reading desk. The books bear titles of works by Newton, Leibnitz, Lagrange, Boole, Russel, Shannon and Turing, whose originals cannot be shown in the museum. The individual pages of the books only show page numbers, otherwise they are empty. The content of the books only becomes visible when the viewer looks through a disc in front of him on a white projection surface. Only when viewed through the screen does the image of the book with the superimposed digitized pages of the original works become visible in the projection; for other viewers the projection surface remains white. The viewer can turn the pages of the book, the digitized pages are always placed exactly above the book pages.

The selection of books describes the scientific development of digitisation up to the present form:

Phase 1: The mathematisation of physics
Isaac Newton: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, 1687
Joseph-Louis Lagrange: Analytical Mechanics, 1811

Phase 2: The mathematization of thinking
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Explication de l'arithmétique binaire, 1703
George Boole: The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, 1847
George Boole: The Laws of Thought, 1854
Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead: Principia Mathematica, 1910
Alan Turing: On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Decision Problem, 1937

Phase 3: The implementation of the electronics
Claude Elwood Shannon: A symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits, 1936

Production:
ZKM | Hertz-Lab, Karlsruhe, DE

Idea, book selection: Peter Weibel
Concept, realisation: Bernd Lintermann, Nikolaus Völzow
Design: Matthias Gommel
Book design: Jan Zappe
Technical assistance: Jan Gerigk, Manfred Hauffen
Production: ZKM | Hertz-Lab