My boyfriend came back from the war, online since 1996 : Olia Lialina
" ... Is a key work of the 1990s as an interactive narrative as well as a pioneering work of net art. MBCBFTW reveals the story of two people who are trying to talk to each other about a war, after the fact ... This book celebrates the original story and its interpretations, but not only, it illuminates twenty years of the World Wide Web as medium and technology, from the intial enthusiasm to the new communication possibilities, to the acceptence as an omnipresent tool ..." back cover
exhibition catalogs
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
9783856166892, 3856166890
945627673
Sabine Himmelsbach, My Boyfriend Never Came Back From The War, Introduction
Bruce Sterling, My Boyfriend Never Came Back From The Web
Michael Connor, Speaking in Net Language: My Boyfriend Came Back from the War
Roman Leibov, MBCBFTW Twenty Years Later: Memories of the Context
Joanna McNeil, A Story Inside a Browser
Academy publication
On the occasion of an exhibition held at HeK, House of Electronic Arts, Basel, January 21 - March 20, 2016
Parallel texts in English and German