Living Pages

Maxime Coton


Imagine your body literally immersed in a book. The letters of the alphabet, the punctuation marks have escaped the limits of the page. They seem to have an autonomous life, forming clouds all around you. Reacting to your amazed gaze, the letters find their order to form a sentence. You turn around, abstract shapes float: we don't know if they are images or objects. An omniscient voice is speaking to you. Everything gravitates with joy. Above, lines of code scroll like rain curtains: you are immersed in LIVING PAGES. LIVING PAGES is an original poem that is expressed at the same time as it is contemplated. It is a work of virtual reality based on unconscious interactivity. It is a new form that materializes, in real time, the mental images generated by the user and conveyed by words.


About the Artist

Maxime Coton (1986) is a writer and director living and working in Brussels. For his films and books, he has won several awards in Belgium and abroad. His multidisciplinary approach naturally led him to create transmedia environments In his artistic work he aims to find balance between poetic and political topics.