Les Editions Volumiques: interactive books

Interactivity, particularly the video game, leads to a new conception of narration and of the role of the reader. How can one introduce the practices and user experience of digital media into the printed book to update it, to extend its field and to engage the reader in a new way? The Éditions Volumiques project launched by Etienne Mineur and Bertrand Duplat arose from such considerations. The projects exhibited are The night of the living dead pixels (fold-out book), Ballons (interactive book with self-turning pages) and Pions (the use of a game piece on an iPhone: as the piece moves about on the screen, the projected shadows alter and a narrative begins).