MediaTheory-UTwente
In preparation of our meeting with the students of UTwente on Monday 2 May 2022, organised by Alex van der Zeeuw
I recommand you to have your own visit of the website, a personal circulation, and to note all the questions that occur. Try it on a desktop computer, but also on tablet or phone just to find out if you see the same or different things. A lot of the art of Mouchette is in the circulation (it’s a jungle!) and in the interaction with the viewer.
Once your visit is done (once or more) , then you might check out the visits made and recorded by other viewers.
Some links:
-This is a sort of visual map that was made by a user in 2001
http://mouchette.org/analysis-2001/
-Screen captures and storytelling about Mouchette.org made by russians kids
-Other characters I created:
Visit him and try him , see what he does!
Other virtual characters still exist, but not not in an interactive form, only in an archive.
-XiaoQian, a chinese virtual character I created in 2006, now archived by Turbulence.org
-Madja Edelstein Gomez, another virtual character, an online curator created in 2018.
She also exists only in the form of an online archive
I also created a software to create films from a desktop images, sounds, animations, etc….
A film made with this software (if you click on the button on the top lefthand corner you see the software at work)
http://aoys.zkm.de/my-desktop-life/
To present my work, I will mostly use this archive of Virtual Persons, so the best would be if you have visited and interacted with the works as much as possible
The website of Martine Neddam