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  1. Surrender Control

    The reader of this piece received SMSes over the course of 72 hours with instructions to do many strange things, thereby spreading the narrative into her or his physical surroundings. Invitations to sign up were both advertised on the web and distributed on unsigned fliers in London, thus combining physical and networked spaces. Here are some examples of messages sent, with the date and time they were sent out: 28. Write the word SORRY on your hand and leave it there until it fades. (21/11/01, 00:01) 29. Look at the stars. (21/11/01, 00:59) 30. Think about an ex-lover, naked and tied to a bed. (21/11/01, 10:00) 31. Call someone. Tell a lie. (21/11/01, 13:15) 32. Call them back. Admit that you lied but do not tell the truth about why. (21/11/01, 13:30) Surrender Control is not a narrative in the formal sense, but it may enact a narrative with the recipient of the text messages.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 22:00

  2. Kind of Blue

    An email novel that forms a sequel to Rob Wittig's Blue Company, originally sent out in emails to a small group of readers over the course of the summer of 2002, and later published on the web as an archive of emails in August 2003 by frAme Journal of Culture and Technology.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 22:03

  3. SKIN: A Mortal Work of Art

    A short story where each word was tattooed on the skin of a volunteer. These volunteers were the only people who saw the full text of the story. The website documents the work using photographs of tattooed words, a map showing where the words "live", and describing the concept: 'From this time on, participants will be known as "words". They are not understood as carriers or agents of the words they bear, but as their embodiments. As a result, injuries to the printed text, such as dermabrasion, laser surgery, tattoo cover work or the loss of body parts, will not be considered to alter the work. Only the death of words effaces them from the text. As words die the story will change; when the last word dies the story will also have died. The author will make every effort to attend the funerals of her words.'

    (Source for quoted text: Author's Project Announcement)

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 22:07

  4. Jenny Holzer

    Jenny Holzer (born 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio) is an American conceptual artist. She attended Ohio University (in Athens, Ohio), Rhode Island School of Design, and the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Holzer was originally an abstract artist, focusing on painting and printmaking; after moving to New York City in 1977, she began working with text as art.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 22:09

  5. Truisms

    Holzer began her career as a text artist in the late seventies by writing out phrases–truisms–on stickers and posting them around Manhattan. Later her truisms and subsequent writings have been displayed on tickers on Times Square, they’ve been carved in granite and published in books and posted on the web. Holzer’s works sometimes present micronarratives, but open, viral distribution by the general public has not been a focus in her work. Instead, she herself has planned each new spot her words are displayed.

    The project is ongoing.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 22:11

  6. Isabella V.

    Pseudonym for an unknown author who authored the blog "She's a Flight Risk..." writing as the escapee heiress Isabella V.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 22:14

  7. She's a Flight Risk...

    A presumably fictional blog about a wealthy heiress who flees her family for not entirely clear reasons, possibly to do with a forced marriage. The blog begins, "On March 2, 2003 at 4:12 pm, I disappeared. My name is isabella v., but it's not. I'm twentysomething and I am an international fugitive."

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 22:21

  8. Kaycee Nicole Swenson

    Fictional teenager who wrote a very popular blog from 1999-2001 about how she was suffering from cancer. The blog was presented as real, and Kaycee Nicole eventually "died", as told by another fictional character blogging as her mother. The hoax, once discovered, caused many loyal fans and friends great distress.

    This is a pseudonym.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 22:26

  9. Kaycee Nicole

    This was a very popular blog from 1999-2001 about teenaged Kaycee Nicole's struggle with cancer. The blog was presented as real, and Kaycee Nicole eventually "died", as told by another fictional character blogging as her mother. The hoax, once discovered, caused many loyal fans and friends great distress.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 22:32

  10. Juliet Ann Martin

    Juliet Ann Martin has a BA in Visual Arts from Brown University and an MFA in Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts. She is a painter, performer, writer, digital artist, and programmer. She has received recognition for the computer work she has done from the Cooper Hewitt, the DNP Achievement Awards, the European Media Arts Festival, the Year Zero One Gallery, Rhizome Contentbase, Macxibition, David Siegels High Five, Paper Magazine, and Wired Magazine. Her short stories have been published in CUPS Magazine and Black Ice Literary Journal. (Source: http://www.studioxx.org/en/juliet-ann-martin)

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.02.2011 - 22:43

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