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Netochka Nezavanova - Testing hypertext dissemination of meaning and identity: 'MASCHIN3KUNST' beyond the net.art

The "Great World Wide Web is home to a multitude of realities, some more cryptic other and with a purpose, expressive, aesthetic and subversive art. One such reality subversive of the "Big Internet" was represented by Netochka Nezvanova , author of the famous software decomposition "nato.0 +55 +3 d" , a dark stand of reality, a hologram subversive reassuring the challenge mainstream cultural / aesthetic. Often framed in net.art, "she" instead calls "MASCHIN3NKUNZT" art machine, one of the most beautiful and precise definitions, in my opinion, this new aesthetic result of genius and extreme programming, through the 'Successful exploitation techno-expressive unfolds around the world, as an apparently harmless virus but really digs deeply into the common sense of art, with new forms, new approaches and deconstruction, new applications, new sounds ... the extreme techne gives way to an expression twisted and meaningful. For years within the hacker community, artistic and electronic you hear of this "presence" in the Network, appeared on a number of virtual identities: "Antiorp", "integer", "m9ndfukc," "f1f0" "= cw4t7abs "" punktprotokol "," 0f0003 "," m2zk! n3nkunzt " the main pseudonym borrowed from none other than the protagonist of one of the first novels, left incomplete, Dostoevsky, "Netochka Nezvanova" - translated: "anonymous none." After years Netochka Nezvanova remains one of the most mysterious of the Web, rejecting any fixed identity and even challenging the idea that behind his name there is only one person, some of his appearances at events and installations have seen the emergence of women always different, making it impossible physical identification (this is surely one of the most fascinating element of that involved in the spirit of Meta-electronics of Texturalism and of ' electronic expression, which seek forms, methods and models in defining aesthetic and expressive and are dealing with in this site). Researcher and sound experimentation, has developed a vast amount of web pages and musical works: in 1997, along with software projects was released from a CD called Decibel Records "KROP3ROMA9FF" , showing influences arising from the electro-acoustic experimentation up to raids in the territories and industrial techno. His sites are instead visual implosion, which forced to experience frightening even in Network, with an explosion of page elements and a systematic deconstruction of browser. Along with visual and sound production is the incredible work produced by e-mail this entity, which is one with its artistic / aesthetic: his repeated, continuous and violent actions have appeared on various mailing lists and forum, in language at the mercy of different languages \u200b\u200band ASCII codes (called it "Inglese +"). "His e-mail attacks are transformed into a real web performance highlights (at least on the surface) a kind of feminist ideology against a male-dominant culture and corporate, and it can become a more abstract level in a game extreme and very unsettling with electronic communication. Finding the thread of a job as elusive and controversial - starting with the same name - is apparently impossible "[Dina metagallery].

" Netochka is personified from time to time by the female person, and mystery helps to fuel the legend. Represents the loss of subjectivity and the attitude of many projects nomadic Internet users [...]. To communicate using a complex personal language, the result of a mix of English, French, German and various interjections. The graphics on your site is minimal and green phosphor monitors the sequence of pages does not comply alcun tipo di logica, accostando valanghe di caratteri incomprensibili a lunghi testi teorici di stampo femminista e anticorporativo[...]. Poetica: La definizione che Netochka Nezvanova da della sua opera è non a caso maschin3nkunst, "arte della macchina": fare progressivamente il vuoto, svuotare qualsiasi significato attraverso la radicalizzazione dei significanti, abolire l'io narrante, l'individualità, a vantaggio di una sorta di antinarrazione totale, spersonalizzata, macchinica. Si mette in atto una strategia paradossale dell’affermare negando o apparire scomparendo. Software art"[Wikiartpedia].

STORIA DI UNA NON-IDENTITA'. DALLE MAILING LIST AI PROGRAMMI DI DECOSTRUZIONE VISIVA. LA PIATTAFORMA SEMINALE DELLA NET.ART. Una delle prime identità, "=cw4t7abs", comparve nei primi anni '90 su una serie di mailing list e newsgroup relative alla produzione di musica elettronica (ad esempio quella sul sintetizzatore Kurzweil K2000) e Usenet groups, inondandoli di messaggi spam arroganti e senza senso, pieni di insulti e provocazioni, ASCII art astratta e precisi attacchi personali, poesia idiosincratica ed eccentrica. I contributi più rilevanti di Netochka infatti sono, oltre ai portentosi software e alla programmazione, gli interventi in Rete, i post ("Nezvanova's postings can be considered similar to a digitally dadaist version of stream of consciousness writing, she has made "email" into a form of artwork) , are the true expression through the mailing list, taking control of threads and discussions technical or artistic works, known as the mailing list dedicated to the European net.art 'Syndicate' . It was in fact that the period of net.art that, just as the 'Glitch' in electronic music, born of a malfunction, when, in December 1995, Vuk Cosic-famous for his experiments ASCII and for having coined the term net.art - Open an anonymous e-mail or damaged during its transmission and in the midst of an indeterminate group of alphanumeric characters, he managed to decipher a single word, "net.art" who later used it to talk about art and online communication. Born community for discussion and criticism of techno-social , platforms of political and theoretical which competed to develop a "culture of techno-intelligentsia" , in the wake of subversive avant-garde, especially the surrealism and, above all, the SPECT- situationism , net.artists are dedicated to the production of 'manifest public' and to trigger lively "controversy, again, in the '90s, and in a minor key, was born a strong, massively criticism mainstream culture, the social system, the dominant aesthetic, through a stronger critique of techno-culture . Between 1994 and 1998 net.artists allowed the Internet to work, produce, distribute, gather and discuss this new concept of technology regardless of any bureaucracy or institution of the art, as Rhizome sites, mailing lists like Nettime and Syndicate (the latter centered on politics and culture of Eastern Europe-perhaps it is no coincidence that many interventions are Netochka start from the latter) have been the platform for the development of seminal net.art . Identity NN said he was all regarded as' being 'or an' abstract entity, "one person who assumes various identities, the New Zealand female artist, a musician or Icelandic man a collective international conspiracy that comes from ' Eastern Europe: the mystery of the legend spreads. The combination of all these factors, including violent attacks over the Internet, have meant that the software "nato.0 +55 +3 d" quickly reached a great popularity among laptop performers, visual artists, the VJs, musicians, live-electronics and net.artists in general, who used the tool to manipulate video in live performances and installations. After much talk, when it was finally available for sale, the despotism of Netochka Nezvanova unfolded in different forms: complex forms of buying, arbitrary prices to disproportionate amounts depending on the circumstances, a fee for your site $ 10 to all customers Americans for the mere fact of being (say: fantastic!), cryptic documentation, has revoked the license to customers who publicly criticize its software on the Net, by refusing to allow software updates to those customers that have paid hundreds of dollars. His irritation that law: a programmer who refused to give his name fearing some form of punishment, he received such a large amount of spam by being forced to write a program to automatically send it back to back. It was possible that not conforming to the unpredictable world view of Netochka or saying the wrong thing in the wrong context, the license, paid a dear price, it was withdrawn suddenly and with a 'click', unable to gain access to software upgrades . According to many Netochka Nezvanova has threatened to sue Cycling'74, the software company in San Francisco owns the license Max / MSP , programming environment prerequisite for using the software '+55' nato.0 - expelled from the mailing list, threatened to hold hostage the price of its software until it was was readmitted. "Netochka The power comes from its code, which makes her something stronger than a provocateur, or a self-proclaimed prankster performer or network can simply be loved, deleted or ignored. You control the software that artists that she enjoys, scrambled, insults, blizzard use for their work. Netochka have what they need. "

experience of 'deconstruction CHOIR' THE EXPERIMENTAL SOUND - ELECTRONIC ARTS AND MULTIMEDIA WORKS. The power of Netochka Nezvanova was the subversion of the production and use of the product electronic artists. One thing I'm certainly aware electronic musicians is his own difficulties when performing: the scene is devoid of "human elements" were replaced by machinery and computers ("you are watching an artist on stage sitting in front of his laptop to keep pace with the head ... is there a musician on stage that controls the e-mail or play some video games "); the software Netochka however, gives viewers a complex visual to look at and 'to bring' while listening, an experience that involves the whole spectrum of meaning, production and execution becomes spontaneously electronic art installation, fusion of multiple elements in the commotion curdled sonoro dell'electronic music...una "decostruzione corale" : campionamenti audio, campionamenti video, visual remixes interconnessi alle textures ritmiche provenienti dai laptop. Il video non è pre-programmato e in seguito proiettato, ma editato in tempo reale da videoartisti " illuminati dalla luce azzurra dei loro monitor. Nei casi migliori, il video e la musica producono un'esperienza coordinata di improvvisazione".

"NATO.0+55+3d.MODULAR"- SPERIMENTAZIONE GENERATIVA AUDIO/VISIVA. 'Nato.0+55+3d.modular' è il software 'Korporat Warfare' per piattaforma Mac che ha letteralmente revolutionized the manipulation in real-time audio and video, far outpacing all other applications on the market, flexibility, creative possibilities, management complexity and speed ( "with the latest additions to the possibility firewire output, and direct streaming, born .0 +55 is now a complete environment for net video performance "[Integer> Nettime.org] ). 'Nato.modular' is built on the platform 'MAX' (Cycling'74) -graphical programming environment for music and multimedia applications, making full use of the programming paradigm latter's modular infrastructure , allowing a huge flessibilità nella costruzione creativa di strutture nello spazio. In Max/MSP infatti si "assmblano" applicazioni connettendo tra loro degli oggetti grafici che possono eseguire calcoli, produrre o elaborare suoni, creare immagini, o essere usati come pura interfaccia grafica. Si possono così creare sintetizzatori, campionatori, riverberi, effetti e molto altro. In pratica viene adottata la metafora del synth modulare: ciascun modulo svolge una particolare funzione e passa le informazioni ai moduli a cui è connesso . La differenza da altri "environment" è che con Max/MSP si lavora ad un livello di dettaglio impensabile per un sintetizzatore tradizionale (hardware o software che sia). A partire da tale "ambiente", with '+55' Nato.0 manipulation of visual elements come to any multimedia interaction: 2D and 3D VR (virtual reality), DV (digital video), Live-Video, FireWire, QuickTime, Flash, MP3, OpenGL and real-time Internet streaming. Released in the summer of 1999, "nato.0 +55 +3 d.modular," he anticipated the times with regard to the development of 'extarnals' , in anticipation of infrastructure such as ' GEM' ( Graphics Environment for Multimedia) and 'Jitter' - produced directly from Cycling'74 - along with 135 modules that expand the possibilities for Max to the 3D graphics processing, allow for flexibility and immediacy of working with an image similar to the way of working with sounds in 'MSP'. Initial experiments in this direction are represented by programs such as the legendary 'Image / ine' , created by the equally mythical 'STEIM' , Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music Centre Research and development of instruments and tools for performing arts electronic located in Amsterdam, Nederlands, with whom he collaborated extensively Netochka Nezvanova under the person / physical identity of Rebekah Wilson , artista interessantissima per quanto riguarda installazioni ed arti multimediali (sul network STEIM se ne parlerà più approfonditamente in futuro su "Meta-Electronica Research" ). 'Image/ine' è uno dei tools più significativi prodotti da STEIM -primo software per Macintosh per la manipolazione video in realtime, scritto da Tom Demeyer in collaborazione con Steina Vasulka (nata nel 1940), pioniere, con Woody Vasulka (1937), della video art - insieme al conosciutissimo 'LiSa', software per la manipolazione del sound designed specifically for live performances. 'Image / ine' and '+55' Nato.0 then working in the same direction, but the fact that NATO operates on the infrastructure of his MAX using the protocol "visual programming", it allows great flexibility and an equally immediate use, allowing the creation of their own tools and applications, which is why, in spite of the despotism which are applied to the buyers and the aggressive approach the author / s, achieved great popularity among video artists and performers, who continued to use it in many situations, from live-performances on interactive installations. After 2 years the development of 'Born' has been discontinued with the release of the external '242. Nasdaq ', released in June 2001. Some collectives and artists (reported by Wikipedia) that have used 'Nato.0 +55 +3 d' Highly recommended and which is the deepening of their artwork and multimedia are: 242.pilots (real-time video improvisation ensemble consisting of Kurt Ralske , HC Gilje, Lukasz Lysakowski. annual winners of the festival ' Transmediale ' of 2003 - the festival of art and digital culture in Berlin), Farmers Manual (collective Austria was among the first to use visuals 'Born' in their performances, "Help Us Stay Alive", for example, based on software 'Nato', è stata premiata nell'Ottobre 1999 al festival FCMM in Montreal. Il gruppo inoltre ha tenuto un workshop su Max/Nato/PD al festival Avanto nel 2001), Fiftyfifty.org (collettivo media art di Barcellona costituito da Pedro Soler e Mia Makela [aka SOLU]. Attivissimi promoters di 'Nato', organizando numerosi workshops ed impiegando il software in live performances e distribuendolo tramite il loro sito), Johnny Dekam (fondatore di VIDVOX ed autore del software commerciale VDMX -tool di "Videoinstrumentalism", architettura modulare per audio/visual performance, utilizzato in live da gruppi quali Beastie Boys, Stereolab, Ladytron, Hexstatic, Grateful Dead, Light Surgeons, Ministry e moltissimi altri. Rilasciato nel 2001, era originariamente basato su 'nato.0+55'), portable[k]ommunity (duo giapponese di arte multimediale formato da Jun Horikiri e Taeji Sawai. Ha fatto un largo uso di 'nato' per installazioni video e concerti live in svariate situazioni: ' ISEA ' [ 'Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts' - fondata in Olanda, promuove simposi sulle arti elettroniche in tutto il mondo: 'International Symposium on Electronic Arts' ], ' Sónar ' [world famous festival of music including Techno, Electronica, House, Electro, IDM, Avant Garde and all'Experimental-up in Barcelona], ' ICC Tokyo ' [' NTT InterCommunication Center ' - media art gallery in Tokyo Opera City Tower in Shinjuku, Tokyo]. They held a workshop to Kyushu Institute of Design in 2001), N3krozoft Ltd (multimedia art collective that has used '+55' nato.0 in live performances and video installations until 2004), Fork Unstable Media (German design team and interactive media - he was born used to 'Sonar' of 2000 in the Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona. Realized 'shprootC3ll' , a freeware videomixer built with 'born' in 1999), John Dekron (developed the first commercial version of its video editing software 'ES_5' [now 'ES_X' ] with 'born'), Meta ( interesting projects ranging from video art and generative art, producing numerous video and multimedia applications 'born').

OTHER APPLICATIONS Netochka Nezavanova. F0003 propaganda '0 ' (1998) software created with Max / MSP that algorithmically generated animated graphics and sounds synthetic in terms of aesthetics refers to the demoscene and all'8bit. 'B1257 +12' (1998) is a software for the deconstruction of sound and composition, built with Max / MSP, the interface is minimal yet intricate, allows a radical manipulation of sound and in soundloop real-time control over a large parameter (the name comes from "PSR B1257 +12, a pulsar-neutron star in the constellation Virgo, which rotates very quickly, showing anomalies in the pulsation period). @ ¶ ® ≠ 31 Ÿ (1998), software built with 'Max / MSP' that randomly samples extracted from a CD, creating a mixing stochastic -specific to be used with the release of Netochka Nezvanova "krop3roma9ff. '+99' m9ndfukc.0 and ' +2' k! berzveta.0 (1999) are two programs written in Java that interpret data connections, most likely pre-release versions of 'Nebula. M81 '. '+2' kinematek.0 (1999), another application written in Java that incorporates elements of ' Nebula.m81 ' ( performs "animated image from the Internet generation www date "). 'nebula.m81' (1999) is a web browser experimental written in Java, which translates the HTML code into images and sounds abstract, it is basically a " processor Cosmetic code that retrieves HTML pages at random from the Web, transforming them into clusters of text, images and sounds triggered by specific systems. Awarded to '' International Music Software Competition ' in Bourges in 1999 and' Transmediale ' in 2001 - first prize in the category' Artistic Software '. '! = z2c! ja.0 +38' (1999), application built with Max / MSP that uses the power of 'QuickDraw' creating a dense visual text, as a first step towards the concept of '+55' nato.0.

CONCLUSIONS . -Si conlude here on this first part Netochka Nezvanova, soon to return to 'Metaelectronica Research' in order to explore issues related to the expression hypertext electronic and audio-visual "Today it seems that NN has been an international collective project and that the person wrote that NATO is not the same storm that the network messages. The project was presented as a religious cult, with its software as an object of worship "['Piet Zwart Institute for postgraduate- studies and research '] . The truth behind the mystery of Netochka Nezvanova thus seems even more complex than what you could imagine. Korporat Warfare , the collective NATO , Netochka Nezvanova , the many people who have represented the face of NN, multimedia works, the business behind Born , etc ... in many ways behind a ' idiosyncratic and collective action with a big question left for all the real reasons: artistic or commercial? Many disagree on this. To me personally but it seems the least interesting beyond all what I think is important to deepen the "method" that Netozhka Nezvanova left, whatever were the intentions. Browsing through the hundreds of pages around the net interventions, comments, accusations, criticisms, cryptic explanations, what emerges is a "method hypertext" inherent expressive language in the strict sense, a way of marketing, an experimental mode of approach the sound and image, a "method" different understanding of the term net.art and media in general ... the 'MASCHIN3KUNZT' in practice, as a set of words and actions, and software operations, productions and performances, etc.. Wanting to deepen rather Korporat Warfare mode, what could be inferred is that through the aggressive attacks in public discussions and despotism implemented in the revocation of licenses has gone probably by defining a "marketing model", which seemed to allow people to participate in a worship secret and underground, passing through the purchase of expensive software NATO. Interpretation: Netochka Nezvanova / Korporat Warfare is a corporation that, publicly as an artist, he tended to expose that well-known model of many (pseudo) artists: real corporate commodification of art (the commodification of art and the art object in fact, has now embarked on roads really paradoxical and dangerous to the very meaning of art and criticism in the same way that system takes on new roads and equally paradoxical). Interpretation is perhaps risky, but interesting: "Netochka Nezvanova against the capitalist is a capitalist system." During an interview via email, asked the interviewer if he was a +55 Nato.0 open source software or proprietary, NN / total.radikaler.korporat.warfare said "your body is open source +? Let me recompile it. FAKT en i wish to wear it. " (Best answer!) Just like a cult that is spreading and emerge from the underground, many performers and art would have begun to use the expressive style of NN per i loro nomi e gli acronimi (con codici ASCII, crasi di più lingue, senza-senso metalinguistici etc). "Forse proprio come un capo di una setta di successo, il programmatore di NATO si sarà comprato una Ferrari"

"Tutto questo gioco di inganni sarebbe solo un inutile strategia di beffa elettronica se non ci fosse in gioco del denaro "La gente di Nato inveisce continuamente contro le corporation e il capitalismo, ma si comportano come il peggior capitalismo con le loro tattiche monopolistiche e le loro tariffe scorrette," dice ancora Hise. Netochka deve essere sopportata in tutte le sue stranezze, se vuoi usare il suo software. Questo è il suo asso nella manica. Lei ha qualcosa che un piccolo gruppo di artisti vuole, e loro hanno bisogno di lei per il supporto tecnico e gli aggiornamenti. E anche se non foste totalmente votati al suo software, l'anonimità della Rete rende Netochka imprendibile.[...] Lei è una capitalista che grida per l'anti-capitalismo, un'artista che fa infuriare gli artisti, un fenomeno della Rete che terrorizza il suo stesso mezzo di comunicazione. Lei fa da contrasto, da cartina da tornasole, da filtro che ci mostra le nostre reazioni a quello che fa. E, come dice lei stessa, è come ci mettiamo in relazione con i tipi come lei - e non il codice - il nocciolo duro della tecnologia"[ Katharine Mieszkowski].

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