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The web site mouchette.org is animated by the persona of Mouchette, an on-line identity created by an anonymous artist. The interview presented here sets out the artist's purposes in creating Mouchette and the understanding of on-line experience underlying the work shown on the site.

This paper presents Action Room II, a low cost experimental hypermedia platform for the creation of hybrid stages targeting the needs of experimental performances and spectacles, or for interactive narratives. The main characteristic of this platform is that different media streams, theatrical lighting, humans, objects, and robotic parts can be synchronized through a software console running at a laptop. The design of such a platform was based on a thorough study of performing arts requirements, both referring to audiovisual production and to experimental programming. The adopted technical architecture of the Action Room II platform is presented, along with its implementation. The fact that the Action Room II was used for a full season theatrical play for children, which is presented in this paper, gave the opportunity for further development of the platform and conclusions for the next version.

In this paper we propose the replacement of the paper dissertation and its substitutes (e.g. text in word or pdf formats) by a new structure, within the environment of a training tool named doctorat_machine. The proposed structure that doctorat_machine produces is a fully digital tree-based form of knowledge classification, within which the dissertation structure is dynamically organized and presented. The proposed platform is predicated on the following two conditions: A) The existence of a digital library, with a different organization than that of the Dewey Decimal System, in an innovative system which we are developing and we call binary and B) A different "script" of the Ph.D., not based on paper, but on the proposed platform.

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