Mouchette, mouchette.org
I chose this artist and piece in response to our discussion regarding the film "Growing Up Online". Here is a website created to be the profile for what appears to be a 13 year old girl. However, the artist of this piece is actually unknown. Upon taking a closer look at the subject matter within the website, the viewer realizes (or at least hopes) that he is not dealing with an adolescent girl. Instead, the artist uses controversial material to remind us that things on the internet are not always as they appear. I think this piece is an interesting graphic comment on the falsehood of many aspects of the world wide web. We can never be 100% sure that what we are looking at is real or factual.
It also goes back to our film discussion because it mimics the social networking sites ued by so many people today. And the fact that many of us have a false self-confidence on the web, and make comments or postings that we would not share face-to-face.
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