TY - ART
TI - The Bubble Bath
AU - Susanne Berkenheger
AB - "Accessible only with a Microsoft browser, <em>The Bubble Bath</em> ironically reflects on proprietary software and the creative and political potential of hacktivism and cultural borrowing. Readers using other operating systems are presented with this message: '<em>The Bubble Bath</em> is set in the eye of the occupying power called Microsoft. It is therefore indispensable to use camouflage, i.e. PC and Internet Explorer.' Once she accesses the text, the reader/bather is asked to reduce her protection level against viruses, in other words to risk herself in order to read. <em>The Bubble Bath</em> pushes the reader towards a double bath, the 'bubble bath' of the story but also a 'reading bath' where, in fact, she can only have the illusion of control." -- from <em>Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2</em>
C3 - Web
PY - 2005
LA - English
M3 - Generative, Hypertext, Web, Fiction
UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/678/0/0/
DB - The NEXT
Y2 - 2025-04-03
ER -