Between Page and Screen

Between Page and Screen is not your ordinary epistolary text. It is, however, unique in several ways. It is a compilation of letters forming the love story between two subjects. Not only are the subjects of the text, called “P” and “S,’’  representations of the physical page of a book and the digital screen of a computer, but the format of the book itself is unlike almost any physical book, online article, or Ebook seen before. This concept is not new and has been used before. However, such technologies were previously used to be only supplemental to the text. In Between Page and Screen, the physical book strictly contains the black and white codes which serves as the both the text and the visual of conceptual art.

The relationship that the reader must form with the digital computer as well as the paper book while reading the text strengthens the meaning within the story itself.

Often referred to as a “digital pop-up book,’ Between Page and Screen represents both the literary and digital worlds, and the bridge that has formed between them in recent years. It is a prime example of digitalization of literature,  which is the conversation of analog information in any form to digital form. It’s a poetic work that constitutes itself as an intermedial piece because it merges the idea of concrete poetry with conceptual art or “technotext” (Signio).