New York-based multimedia artist M. R. Petit describes her CD-ROM, The Mutant Gene & Tainted Kool-Aid Sideshow, as "the psychodramatic confession of an extraterrestrial." Taken more literally, the disc is an unsettling journey filled with sinister toys, grotesque creatures in gargoyle-like masks, and the fleeting images of half-remembered dreams, all set to a creepy, just-off-the-midway soundtrack.
Petit is now using the Web to create her next project. "I'm attracted to working on the Web because you can update things. A CD-ROM gets permanently pressed and you can't change anything." And for an artist, letting your creation mutate is half the fun.
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