American Psycho (conceptual novel)

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American Psycho is a conceptual novel by Jason Huff and Mimi Cabell, based on the 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Huff and Cabell emailed the text of the novel to each other's Gmail accounts one page at a time, collected the contextual advertisements generated for each of those pages, and presented those in book form (published by Traumawien).

The book was part of Erreur d’impression at the Jeu de Paume, Paris in 2012 [1] and received international attention. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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References

  1. Jeu de Paume Concorde, Paris. "Erreur d'impression, American Psycho, Mimi Cabell & Jason Huff" (in French). Jeu de Paume. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
  2. Electric Lit (2014-08-30). "Rewriting through Google Ads: Mimi Cabell and Jason Huff's American Psycho". Electric Lit. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
  3. Thomas Gorton (2014-09-10). "Download American Psycho reimagined using Google ads". Dazed Digital. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
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