the Impossible Signing Sessions   |  bol.com

How do you grab everyone’s attention at the Belgian Book Fair, when over 200 authors are signing non-stop? By letting a dead poet sign books, apparently. We brought cult poet Paul Van Ostaijen back to life, by analysing his hand writing with deep machine learning and teaching a robot arm how to write like him. This way, thousands of people got a personalised message from a man who had been dead for over a 100 years, making him the most popular author at the fair.