In the late 90s appeared the Net-Art, an art using the internet resources to explore new practices.
Net-Art combined both artists and the public, creation born from interactivity between the two protagonists.
Many projects have emerged, Girl Japan is one example among many others.
The Japan Girl project began in the summer of 2001, one can find its first traces through the site
provisoire.com as you can see it in the way back from archive.org Machine.
The idea of Japan Girl was to create a virtual character and use the anonymous posts of users for giving him a voice, giving personality.
The technology of the time we limited to text but it was enough to make her talk.
Japan Girl embodies in its own way the web in the late 90s, she is a figure of the web.
Why a Japanese girl? I do not know really, it's chance.
Japan Girl spoke for years until the web site provisoire.com stops in the end of the 2010
Japan Girl was a minimal shared chat like a shared tweeter account, opened to everyone and anonymous.
New graphics from Jeff Lechat.
Net-art work from Andrés Lozano a.k.a Loz.