Obituaries.count

What the user sees is a black-and-white, rectangular obituary in the middle of the computer screen which addresses the victims of the last Iraq war. By letting the languages and the meaning the textual fragments create fluctuate, the author emphasises the fact that obituaries are a global phenomenon, the rhetorics of which are replaceable and interchangeable regardless of where these are being written or read. The date of the obituary is always the same as the actual date the text is read on, thus the text gains the quality of actuality and credibility at the same time. Furthermore, in order to increase the desired artistic effect, the author has put a body-count at the bottom of the page, which is incremented roughly every second. Furthermore, there are strong sounds of war, such as machine-gun fire, and screams of women and children in the background.

(Source: Roman Zenner "Hypertextual Fiction on the Internet: A Structural and Narratological Analysis")