The Pool

Michael K. Iwoleit's (Hayden in SL) text is a nano-graphic novel, a short story in a bilingual version. The author, internationally known and repeatedly awarded for his dystopian science fiction stories and novels, takes on the subject of genetic engineering in an unconventional and warning manner. Bilinguality opens up intercultural and didactic perspectives. The illustrations have been created by Asmita Duranjaya and a CD-ROM extends, in the tradition of ulme-mini-verlag, the multimedia spectrum of the publication with readings of the text in both languages and a video documentation of the art project "MindScape" in the virtuality for which this nano-novel was conceived. The ambient etude as a background music has been composed and recorded by Michael K. Iwoleit himself who, apart from writing, is interested and active in other kinds of artistic expression.

The SL-version presents the audio-file in English and German and visitors can listen to the nano-story by clicking the specific keyboard. The installation contains also a virtual book-version.
The English version of the human is spoken by Dodge Threebeards, the robot is an artificially produced voice.

ulme-mini-verlag S.  Fernando 2020
ISBN: 978-3-940080-20-2