Mouchette

Description

Mouchette.org is an interactive website created in 1996 by a pseudonymous person. About the style of the website, the developer uses vivid colours, such as red, pink and orange, as the main tone. Visitors are welcomed with a lurid close-up of a flower, accompanied the crepping of ants and flies. The pages of the wesites are very grotesque and provoke sexuall reaction, such as showing an image of raw meat, legs of a dead body and an enlarged tongue in the central of the screen in order to catch viewers' attention. Apart from the images, the sound is also strange and disgusting which seems crying or moaning. In general, the website provides me with a sense of uncomfortable and nauseous.

The website is linked to the problem of identity online because it has deceptive quality. The maker purports that "I am nearly 13 years old", but the development and construction of the website is very sophisticated that is impossible for a 13 years old girl to do so. Therefore, the maker hides his or her self-identity and manipulates identity online. On the other hand, the website is controversial in the art community because it intends to provoke sexual interaction with the viewers and arouse the issue of child sexuality, for example the background images like a close up of a young girl's face, sticking out her tongue.

Reference:  https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/Mouchette
                     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouchette.org