Ginger Bombyx : life, death and mythology of a selfrepresentation
Abstract
Ginger Bombyx is a character I originally created as a being totally different to me. I
wanted to better understand the presentation of self on the web and especially to question the
existence. How shall one exist online? How does one become an individual? Over the years,
this character took an existential density. Then it fell into lethargy. From this lethargy,
interpreted as a death, has slowly emerged a spiritual existence, as if the character has been
stabilized in a transcendental mythology.Today, a funeral stele has replaced the “living” homepages. The ancient personal
websites are only available as web archives as a tribute to her memory. Over the years, these
archives themselves are gradually disappearing. The Flash animations, pictures and
hyperlinks are slowly disappearing. As if the web archives were unable to sustain a solid
memory of the past.
Domains
Computers and Society [cs.CY]
Origin : Files produced by the author(s)
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