Between Page and Screen

Here's a link to a strange video with horrible music. The text (textual body?) produced by "Between Page and Screen" seems more like an advertisement than poetry. But maybe we should think of the two as kin. Visual poetry and advertising quite obviously share an economy of language and attention. This history in America can be traced back to the middle decades of the 19th century (and perhaps earlier in Europe and South America). 

It was uncharitable of me to screengrab the glitch and post it (above). As to the concept and execution of "Between Page and Screen," it feels entirely like an artist's book. I have "read"(?) the "book" (?) itself through all of its mediation via webcam. It is really "cool". I don't remember anything about the text or story, but my memory isn't so great. I remember the experience not the "content". Ideally we want both, or we want to understand how the two converge.

This is often my experience with artist's books. Reading itself is far more nuanced and poetic than we conventionally believe it to be. Our varieties or modalities of reading greatly exceed those of writing. We are always reading (maybe even when we're asleep); we are not always writing (unless we think of reading as an act of inscription). This is a field of study that I'm looking forward to examining with students in next semester's seminar, "Texts & Readers".