War in Ukraine

REALISATION

digitally the first day of the war was completed on 03/26/2022

Works:

Day 400, Mar 30, 2023:

1 Year, Feb 24, 2023:

Day 300, Dec 20, 2022:

Day 200, Sep 11, 2022:

Day 100, Jun 3, 2022:

Day 42, Apr 6, 2022:

Day 41, Apr 5, 2022:

Day 40, Apr 4, 2022:

Day 39, Apr 3, 2022:

Day 38, Apr 2, 2022:

Day 37, Apr 1, 2022:

Day 36, Mar 31, 2022:

Day 35, Mar 30, 2022:

Day 34, Mar 29, 2022:

Day 33, Mar 28, 2022:

Day 32, Mar 27, 2022:

Day 31, Mar 26, 2022:

Day 30, Mar 25, 2022:

Day 29, Mar 24, 2022:

Day 28, Mar 23, 2022:

Day 27, Mar 22, 2022:

Day 26, Mar 21, 2022:

Day 25, Mar 20, 2022:

Day 24, Mar 19, 2022:

Day 23, Mar 18, 2022:

Day 22, Mar 17, 2022:

Day 21, Mar 16, 2022:

Day 20, Mar 15, 2022:

Day 19, Mar 14, 2022:

Day 18, Mar 13, 2022:

Day 17, Mar 12, 2022:

Day 16, Mar 11, 2022:

Day 15, Mar 10, 2022:

Day 14, Mar 09, 2022:

Day 13, Mar 08, 2022:

Day 12, Mar 07, 2022:

Day 11, Mar 06, 2022:

Day 10, Mar 05, 2022:

Day 9, Mar 04, 2022:

Day 8, Mar 03, 2022:

Day 7, Mar 02, 2022:

Day 6, Mar 01, 2022:

Day 5, Feb 28, 2022:

Day 4, Feb 27, 2022:

Day 3, Feb 26, 2022:

Day 2, Feb 25, 2022:

Day 1, Feb 24, 2022:

RULEBOOK

Text determination

The data basis for the text is the official Youtube recording of the Tagesschau from 8 p.m. of the day in question. The series of images begins with the Tagesschau of 24 February 2022, the first day of the war.

The text is converted into a text using transcription software (currently Happyscrype). The result is proofread and then divided into the individual words and transferred to Excel. Punctuation marks at the end of words are removed. The words are grouped and counted. For each occurring word, the word length is determined and the number of occurrences.

Background colour

The background colour is the RGB value of the flag of Ukraine: 0, 91, 187

Font

The text is in TheSans C5 font, which is also used by the Tagesschau.

Font colour

For the font colours, the individual words are assigned to the colour rules for the warring parties. For this purpose, the number of occurrences of the letters of the country names of the warring parties in the respective word is counted. For the Ukraine, the occurrences of the letters u, k, r, a, i, n, e, for the aggressor Russia the letters r, u, s, l, a, n, d (the s is only counted once) are evaluated. The word is assigned to the colour rule that scores the higher value. In case of a tie, the rule for Ukraine is applied. If there is no letter of the warring parties, the value is white (FFFFFF).

Colour rule Ukraine

For Ukraine, the colour value yellow (gold) from the flag of Ukraine (RGB: 255, 213, 0) is edited. For this purpose, the proportion of letters from the word "Ukraine" in the number of letters of the word is determined (e.g. "die", occurrence of i and e = 67% of the word), with which the colour values are adjusted (RGB = 255 * 67%, 213 * 67%, 0 - i.e. hexadecimal AA8E00).

Colour rule Russia

For Russia, the colour value red from the flag of Russia (RGB: 213-43-30) is edited. To do this, the proportion of letters from the word "Russland" is determined in relation to the number of letters in the word (e.g. "Deutschland", occurrence of r, u, s, l, a, n, and a second time d = 64% of the word), with which the colour values are adjusted (RGB = 213 * 64%, 43 * 64%, 30 * 64 - i.e. hexadecimal 871B13).

Spread

Starting with the word "Ukraine" in the middle of the picture, all words are manually distributed on the drawing area one after the other in the order of the determined font size.

If the word "Ukraine" does not feature in the entire Tagesschau, the word Ukraine is inserted in the size of the first day of the war, the 24th February 2022, but faded out after the grouping of the entire text.

Image dimensions

Each individual panel has the dimension 60 x 40 cm.

Digital jpgs with a width of 1000 pixels are published.

CONCEPT

(03/22)
For this work, all editions of the 8 p.m. Tagesschau of ARD are analysed.
Tagesschau is transcribed into text.
The words are isolated and counted.
Each word occurring in the transcribed text is assigned a colour value according to a set of rules. For this purpose, the words are assigned to the warring parties Russia and Ukraine by evaluating how many letters of the country names occur in the transcribed word. The rule for the country that has the most matching letters is applied.

for Ukraine, a set of rules for yellow colour values is applied
for Russia a set of rules for red colour values is applied
if no letter of the names of the warring parties appears, the word remains white

The letter size is based on the total length of the letters in the respective edition of the Tagesschau for the occurrence of the evaluated word.

TASKS

(03/22)

Selection of transcription software
Definition of colour rules
Definition of size rules

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