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PAPARUTZY is a book artist, concrete poet that has been distributing work through the online Print on Demand service Lulu since March of 2015.

PAPARUTZY’s work investigates notions of price within contemporary aesthetics. In 2023, PAPARUTZY updated his website to include a manifesto titled, “PAYING THE PIPER: A MANIFESTO TOWARDS FIXING PRICE POINT AESTHETICS”. The manifesto, an example of collage, directly quotes from several artists and poets working in similar trajectories. The references include: Adrian Piper, Holly Melgard, Nam June Paik, Sol Lewitt, Joanna Drucker, and Seth Price

In 2017, PAPARUTZY's project WHO BORE IT WETTER? was included in EMERGENCY INDEX and later that year was the topic of a lecture delivered by Jake Reber at Northwestern University's Ordinary Media conference. Some of PAPARUTZY’s work is collected by the Library of Artistic Print on Demand.