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In Olia Lialiana\u2019s \u201dMy Boyfriend Came Back from The War\u201d there is only one certainty \u2013 besides that the reader will initially be confused by her art \u2013 and that is that every reader will read the same lines in the beginning and in the end of the piece. \u201cMy boyfriend came back from the war. After dinner they left us alone.\u201d is how the work begins, and with her name and year of publication (1996) is how the work ends. Did I ruin the tale of a returning soldier for you? Don\u2019t worry I didn\u2019t, since you as a reader decide what occurs between the beginning and the end, and how you interpret those occurrences. Thus after reading Liliana\u2019s net art you will conceptualize the work in your own way, and trust me, it\u2019s likely that your interpretation is going to be one of a kind.<\/p>\n
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\u201cMy Boyfriend Came Back from The War\u201d is a net art that uses graphic interchange format in order to deliver a personal tale through said and unsaid expressions. What is being said and what is left unsaid? It\u2019s decided by you. In fact, everything is decided by you! Liliana only places you into the piece. A piece where one region of the page presents the \u201cboyfriend\u2019s\u201d presence through alternating images, and where the remaining frames serve as the venue for the conversation. An internal and external conversation that can be realized in a lot of ways, but which unlike other web literature, has an end \u2013 I use the word \u201clot,\u201d since I have no idea as to all the possible ways the conversation can be realized.<\/p>\n
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If everything is decided by the reader, what is the purpose of this work? I think the meaning is once again, like in Firefly, is not in the words, but the way they are presented, and if the presentation indicates anything, then it\u2019s that we are free to do what we will. Let\u2019s not think about what the author intended! Once again the focus is not on the writer, but on the reader. If you read some of the remixed piece of \u201cMy Boyfriend Came Back from The War\u201d \u2013 liked the one that reminds me of Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cMemento\u201d by going backwards in time \u2013 you will definitely get the idea that this work focuses on the reader\u2019s and not the writer\u2019s imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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