AgatheHD.com, Work in Progress, RCA

The exhibition took place in the main gallery of the RCA. Agathe’s website AgatheHD.com was on display.

agatheHD.com was developed between September 2000 and january 2001 – agatheHD.com was the first portfolio website designed and built by Agathe Jacquillat. It presented projects using icons and appearances from Mac OS 9's interface and Photoshop's version at the time.

This concept helped to create an instant contrast between emotionally more neutral, technological associations and Agathe's mostly analogue, often handmade experiments, illustrations and projects.
The 'HD' was associated with the word 'Hard Drive' at the time – rather than the 'High Definition' we think of today. Entering the website almost felt like intruding a private environment – like accidentally hacking Agathe's personal computer. The audience was invited to explore Agathe's projects and to find the concept to be designed with the ambition to surprise the viewer with a huge amount of amusing and interesting details.
The website was ideally explored using a Mac with the OS 9 of the time.
Nowadays the website provokes a touch of nostalgia for all those who experienced previous operating systems. But just have a look – an archive version is still online: agatheHD.com (Please note that the website does include a few Flash elements – including the classic Macintosh boot sequence and sound – that might not run on today's iPads etc.)