natalie bookchin

Natalie Bookchin's web project "The Intruder" is based on the short story by Jorge Luis Borges of the same title. The story is about a pair of brothers who fall in love with the same woman and eventually sell her to a brothel. In the end, she dies and the brothers become friends again. Bookchin's work is created with ten short interactive sites modeled after early video games. In one segment, "the player is implicated in the narrative by the feminine 'ball' back and forth, symbolically taking the role of one of the brothers and enacting the cruel exchange of the woman as if she were an object with no agency."

On a larger scale, Bookchin's work also offers commentary on feminine identity in an art world dominated by male artists (digital media). Bookchin's other work is also overtly political. She has created a site critizing President George W. Bush, as well as a new project called "Metapet," where the viewer acts as a corporate executive controlling human beings.