Many works take the form of questionnaires, forms, and surveys, highlighting practices that are very common on the Internet. They hinge on the quest for self-knowledge and are concerned with the phenomenon of confession on the Internet. They present questions to which ready-made answers are provided. The automated, impersonal process gives an impression of impartiality, infallibility, and truth. Confession here plays a quasi-cathartic function. The participant navigates the work while having the impression of liberating or relieving herself of personal information of which she doesn't know the meaning. These works allow for a transition from the human condition, with its lot of constraints and varied dissatisfactions, to that of the machine, perceived as perfect. Generally, they stress the fact of technological intrusion into the private domain. Moreover, they reveal the nature of certain habits framed by interactivity and accessibility as well as the sometimes illusory and misleading aspects of the search for intimacy on the Internet.

Group Z, I confess, 1996-1997
work : http://adaweb.walkerart.org/~GroupZ/confess/index.html
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Greg Garvey, The Automatic Confession Machine, 1993
work: http://www.lightfactory.org/garvey/welcome.html
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