Seppuku is a ritual suicide by disembowelment formerly practiced by Japanese samurai. It's also called hara-kiri. If you have enough of your virtual identity, a new website will help you kill it. 'Virtual life' is an often abused term used to describe the whole of one person's online activities.
But as media communications let our second/online/offline identities overflowing into real life the distinctions between the real and the virtual are becoming more and more confused. Which is virtual? And where's the real?
Seppukoo deals with the liberation of the digital body from any identity constriction in order to help people discover what happens after their virtual life and to rediscover the importance of being anyone, instead of pretending to be someone.
Hacking and parasiting one of the most popular social networking website, Seppukoo deactivates one's user Facebook account, driving people into one of the most radical chic user-experience: the virtual suicide.
0 comment(s):
Post a Comment