Great women net-artists

Why Are There No Great Women Net Artists? (also archived in Turbulence)


Similarly,  Mouchette.org poses as the personal website of a thirteen year old girl,  designed to titillate the curiosities of pedophiles which were a rising moral panic in the 90s. The website’s author plays upon the narcissistic qualities of the interactive web 1.0 personal website. As the user navigates through the website by selecting radio buttons that ask them to make assumptions about the attention-seeking character of its author, closeups of feminine body parts (an ear, tied hair, a face with lips parted) appear, enlarged, across the background of each linked web page.



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