ctrlv (2008)

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ctrlv
2008
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Requested that users of a popular crowdsourcing engine (Amazon Mechanical Turk) submit to me the contents of their computer clipboard at the time of reading the prompt.  The result is 1,000 individual pieces of ephemeral copy&pasted text in the order that they were submitted, ranging from URLs to fragments of personal messages to the full text of a walkthrough for the videogame Final Fantasy XII.

Posted: October 25th, 2009
Tagged-as: 2008, Crowdsourcing, Internet, Writing & Poetics