The 12 Labors of the Internet User: Serge Bouchardon, Mathieu Brigolle, Aymeric Brisse, Christopher Espargeliere, Mikael Labrut, Jérémie Lequeux, and Adrien Pegaz-Blanc
Title : "The 12 Labors of the Internet User"
URL : http://www.the12labors.com/
One-sentence description
"Reader! Like Hercules, you’re about to carry out 12 labours: the 12 labours of the Internet user. If you succeed, you’ll survive on the web and maybe even become immortal."
Artist statement
The internet user is regarded here as the Hercules of the Internet. Often, it seems to him that he has to achieve herculean labors. It can be a question of browsing through a hypertextual labyrinth (the Erymanthean Boar), blocking popups which keep coming when one would like to see them disappear (the Lernean Hydra), driving away the advertising banners (the Stymphalian Birds) or retrieving specific information (the Belt of the Queen of the Amazons)...
Hercules, in a fit of madness, had killed his wife and their children. Jealous of the power of Hercules, his cousin Eurysthee had imposed on him twelve labours considered as unfeasible. The internet user wonders what he did wrong to have brought upon himself so many obstacles. It is only by being persevering that the internet user can reach his aims. Does that make him a demigod?
This work draws upon the mythology of everyday life. It does not consist in showing the tragedy of existence, but in transforming our daily activities into a myth. It is consequently a question of experiencing technology in an epic mode...
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