The user's private experience with the computer, and the interactivity and accessibility to others provided on the Internet, sometimes give rise to exhibitionism and voyeurism. Works that deal with the phenomenon give the impression that a fundamental borderline has been crossed, that of seeing the other and/or his personal space. One could think that the transmission of the other's image aims for more intimacy, and, doubtless, this intention is at the basis of communication between two visually present people, possibly even in physical interactions. However, these works highlight the effects of mediation on this type of interchange, that which intervenes between the speakers, and the distance established in this type of contact. They highlight a certain illusion and artificiality in the sought-for intimacy.

Reynald Drouhin, Alter-native, 1997
work : http://www.ensba.fr/alteraction/altern/index.html
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(See also another work by the artist on the same theme: Métaorigines, 1999)

Alexei Shulgin, Desktop is, 1997-98
work: http://www.easylife.org/desktop/desktops.html
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Nell Tenhaaf, Neonudism, 1997
work: http://www.yorku.ca/faculty/academic/tenhaaf/neonudism.html
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