Between Page and Screen explores the place of books as objects in an era of increasingly screen-based reading. The pages of this artist's book contain no text—only abstract geometric patterns and a web address leading to this site, where the book may be read using any browser and a webcam. The poems that appear, a series of letters written by two lovers struggling to map the boundaries of their relationship, do not exist on either page or screen, but in the augmented space between them opened up by the reader.

Originally produced as a limited-edition hand-bound and letterpress-printed artist's book, Between Page and Screen has been shown internationally at a number of exhibitions from San Francisco to Berlin. View the complete list of events

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Authors

Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Handiwork (Slope Editions, January 2012), selected by Paul Hoover for the Slope Books Prize, and a chapbook, Tonal Saw (The Song Cave, 2010). She has written a book of conjoined poems with Kate Durbin, Abra: An Excess Exhibit (ZG Press, forthcoming), with illustrations by Zach Kleyn. Her poems, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared widely in print and online, most recently in Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, Columbia Poetry Review, and Eleven Eleven. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT.

Brad Bouse is a developer whose work focuses on the intersection of art and technology. His personal projects have ranged from documentaries to collaborative screenwriting tools. Professionally, he works on product and user experience for consumer web startups.

Book

Between Page and Screen is available from Siglio Press for $24.95. The first 250 copies are signed and numbered by the authors. Save 25% with the coupon code "SPINTO.

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Software

Between Page and Screen uses the FLARToolkit to project animations in an augmented-reality. The application also uses the Robot Legs framework, Papervision 3D engine, BetweenAS3 animation engine, and Jiglib physics engine. The source code for this application will be released when it is finalized.