Between Page And Screen
is an augmented-reality book of poems.
Between Page and Screen has reinvented visual poetry, doing so by displaying hieroglyphs that humans can read only through the eyes of robots. Each coded sigil resembles one of the cellular automata that a mathematician might find in the game of life—except that each glyph has become a cipher for an epistle that explores the sound of words, then explodes these messages into shrapnel. Such a book heralds the virtual reality of our own poetic future, when everyone can read a book while watching it play on television, each hologram standing in its cone of light, hovering above the open page.
—Christian Bök
Between Page and Screen explores the place of books as objects in an era of increasingly screen-based reading. Through a series of letters between two lovers, P and S, trying to map out the boundaries of their relationship, the poems of the book make a case for the coexistence of old and new media forms, inviting the reader to enter the space between them.
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