The New River

Journal of Electronic Literature and Digital Art

Fading

By Anni Garza Lau

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Using simple mouse gestures and interacting with abstract shapes, the user accompanies a woman who tries to collect her thoughts and memories in the last moments of her life. Through a subtly immersive experience, the piece addresses one of the most important issues that has been neglected in Mexican society: femicide.

Technically, in this artwork the artist writes and adapts several creative code scripts and mixes them with stories and media found on the internet to generate a formal language proper to the on-screen browser.