BOOKWRECK is a collection of scans made of destroyed or otherwise altered book pages collectively conceived by students of Danny Snelson’s 2018 class “Print on Demand Art & Poetry” at University of California, Los Angeles.

The book is divided into five chapters named after the alterations the book objects have undergone: Incineration, Transmutation, Annotation, Transformation, Execution. Each chapter features two alterations of one or two books, which are often no longer recognizable and whose scan collection is marked by an inserted black page featuring a title and (pseudonymous) authorship, alluding to the fact this version of the book is considered a new work, sometimes taking a critical stance on the book (“Ending a book that contributes to the blaming of women culture”), sometimes playing with the original title (“The Chilliad”), sometimes taking up the theme of the entire collection (“Gone Book”). Most of the pages have been altered physically by burning, cutting, or drawing on the pages, but some alterations also highlight the destructive effect of scanning, showing deformations and glitches from the remediation practices of digitization.