Zuse Strip (2003)

A piece of movie film has survived the forthcoming Ice Age and is discovered by Venusian scientists5000 years from now This work is a correspondence of two information fragments of different origins and times that met by accident Cinema transforms into a threedimensional landscapeutilizing data that is based on an archaeological misinterpretation Zuse Strip is named after Konrad Zuses first digital computer It used discarded 35mm movie film from the German UFA as a medium to read and write 8bit binary code data with a holepunch system The work was inspired by Lev Manovichs text Cinema by Numbers as well as The Deciphering of Linear B by linguistarchaeologist John Chadwick