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Immaterial Girl.(web site based on Mouchette film character)(Brief Article)
Artforum International, May, 2001 by HARRIS, JANE
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> Robert Bresson's 1967 film Mouchette, in which the fourteen-year-old protagonist is driven to suicide, might seem a grim premise for a website, but www.mouchette.org transcends the merely macabre to offer a gripping prototype for Net artist as ghost in the machine. Begun in October 1996 by an anonymous Amsterdam-based artist who calls herself "Mouchette" and (still) claims to be "nearly thirteen," the site has evolved from simple character impersonation into an interactive narrative, attracting devoted fans who send its heroine gifts and advice, including novel ...
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