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Internet transforms the definition of an activity or work qualified as “artistic”. It also transforms the way in which creators live, the way they build and assert their identity as artists. This paper proposes the ethnography of a project carried out at the interface of Internet and contemporary artworlds : Mouchette (1996-2006). Focusing on the question of the ambivalence of his divided, dual inscription, between the network and the artistic scene, the paper sheds light on the interactive parameters of production, between the initiatives of the artist, computer innovations and interactions with the public.