Luther Blissett

The Profile

A multiple-name collective/pseudonym used by an unspecified number of artists for publications, pranks and countercultural actions; best known for the historical-adventure novel Q (1999) and for distributing writings under Creative Commons.

The name was taken from an English forward for Milan in the 1980s. Q (1999) is attributed to four writers from Bologna: Giovanni Cattabriga, Luca Di Meo, Roberto Bui and Federico Guglielmi. Since 2000 the pseudonym used by the collective is Wu Ming (which later included Riccardo Pedrini as Wu Ming 5); all writings of the Luther Blissett/Wu Ming project are released under Creative Commons and downloadable from their website.

Luther Blissett is a multiple-name collective/pseudonym used by a group of artists primarily active in the 1980s–1990s. The collective published the historical-adventure novel Q (1999). Many of their writings have been released under Creative Commons and relate to countercultural media criticism.