A website that I created in 1999
Created in 1999, the website that accompanied the public commission for the Lycée de St Julien en Genevoix has been put back online at the request of the students themselves.
From the original website created in 1999, made in basic HTML, nothing has been changed. But it’s very strange to see its sometimes very unbalanced composition displayed on screens that have become so much bigger these days.
The idea was to feature high school students playing virtual characters, with invented names and ways of hiding their faces that would both reveal their personalities.
At that time, secondary school pupils weren’t yet using the Internet, and their school didn’t yet have a connection.
I’d been inspired by the character of Mouchette that I’d been creating for two or three years, but it was completely anonymous, totally secret and not at all linked to my civil status name.
I had an info site dedicated to my public commissions and it was on this site that I hosted the website that accompanied this public commission. In 25 years, I’ve changed my websites a lot, and in the process forgotten about the Lycée website, which I didn’t think anyone was interested in any more. But this year, the students who were doing a presentation of the work for the school’s CDI wrote to me to ask why the site was no longer online. That’s what made me decide to put it back online.
I had forgotten that for each of the characters I had written a few lines of first-person narrative corresponding to the mention of their names.
In exchange for their services, I asked the students to send me photos of the work as it was in the school. I wanted to know if the light boxes with the digitally printed images had stood the test of time. It seems that they have.
You can find the photos of the work on site here below: