Mouchette

One of the extreme example of fake online identities is the website of Mouchette. This is a website of a 13 years old girl, who of course is a fake identity created by an artist.

This website contains pictures and links, and it's like the girl is exposing her real life to others but all those fake informations make us sick. 'She' wants to interact with us, and she left some  questions.You can leave your email address if you want.

What impressed me most was the set up of the homepage. no much words, and a sophisticated flower is used as a backgroud. It creat a sense of touch by adding some flies. 'She' is like destroying beauty. All the informations there seems to be real. I mean they are very detailed, for example, she shows us her bedroom. And posters along with other stuff are trying to confuse us.

It's very unique that she used sound effect on her website. And to accompany the pictures and the style, she makes those creepy sound when entering. It's meaningless and makes us uncomfortable. But the sound makes the website quite different from other works of art. It now contains fourv senses we have. So the feeling is stronger.

At last, Iwant to talk a little about the background of this websites. We know that this 13-year-old girl is fictional, but we admit that some part of the uncomfortable feelings we have are closly related to her age. We think it is disgusting and unappropriate for such a little girl to make such descriptions and pictures and sound. So if it would be diferent if this girl changed her identity to a more mature and sextual attractive woman?Is it because of her age that we think it is extreme? It's more like a moral discussion now.