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References
- Art Beat Lexington. Fictive Art: The Art of Prank.
- Cabinet of Wonders. "Pataphyics and Fictive Art."
- LaFarge, Antoinette. "Eisbergfreistadt: The Fictive and the Sublime." Visual Communications Quarterly, Fall/Winter 2009-10.
- Miranda, Maria. "Fictive Art in New Media." IEEE MultiMedia, April–June 2003.
- LaFarge, Antoinette. Sting in the Tale: At, Hoax and Provocation (Los Angeles: Dopplehouse Press, 2021.)
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