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(collective) Boredomresearch >
»FOIB version II (2007)«, 2007
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Literature
Boredomresearch. »Snail Mail Gets Literal.« Time Magazine 172, no. 5 (August 2008).
Boredomresearch. »The Wired Campus: Real Snail Mail.« The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 2008).
Boredomresearch. »Real Snail Mail Slashdot.« Slashdot (Online) (June 2008).
Boredomresearch. »Real Snail Mail Slashdot.« Slashdot (Online) (June 2008).
Brucker-Cohen, Jonah. »Real Snail Mail Turns Email into Slower Email.« .
Boredomresearch. »NETworking Net Art.« In Computer Fine Art Collection, edited by Illana Tenenbaum and Christiane Paul, 20. Haifa: Haifa Museum of Art, 2007.
Boredomresearch. »Eternity´s Sun Rise.« In Tumbling Dream Chambers Exhibition Catalogue, edited by Paul Brown. Berlin: [DAM] Berlin, 2007.
Boredomresearch. »RealSnailMail.« .
Boredomresearch. »Faustian Bargains and Pineapple Shampoo.« Metamute.org/Mute (January 2007).
Boredomresearch. »Theatre of Restless Automata review on boredomresearchs' solo exhibition
at Peterborough Digital Arts.« furtherfield.org website (2006).
Boredomresearch. Freefall, Arts Council England international artists fellowships
2001-2003. : Arts Council England, 2004.
Boredomresearch. »New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004 .« In New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004, edited by Lucy Kimbell. Manchester: Cornerhouse Publications, 2004.
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