Netochka Nezvanova (author)

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Netochka Nezvanova is the pseudonym used by the author(s) of nato.0+55+3d, a real-time, modular, video and multi-media processing environment. Alternate aliases include "=cw4t7abs", "punktprotokol", "0f0003", "maschinenkunst" (preferably spelled "m2zk!n3nkunzt"), "integer", and "antiorp". The name itself is adopted from the main character of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel Netochka Nezvanova (1849) and translates as "nameless nobody." [1]

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Identity

Netochka Nezvanova has been described by cultural critics as "an elusive online identity" [2] and "a collective international project". [3] In 2020, art critic Amber Husain describes NN as an "avatar of avant-garde internet performance" that "became as known for her abstract and usable software artworks as she did for aggressive displays of anonymous cyber-domination". [4]

In 2001, Netochka Nezvanova was named as one of the Top 25 Women on the Web by a San Francisco non-profit group. [5]

In her article published March 2002 for online magazine Salon, Katharine Mieszkowki dubbed NN the "most feared woman on the Internet", and speculated on her real identity – "A female New Zealander artist, a male Icelander musician or an Eastern European collective conspiracy?". [6]

Florian Cramer stated that NN "was a collective international project" that "presented itself as a sectarian cult, with its software as the object of worship". [3] Cramer describes how the origin of NN's messages was obscured by "a web of servers and domain registrations spanning New Zealand, Denmark and Italy", while Mieszkowki observes that "e-mail from Netochka's various aliases has also been sent from ISPs in Chicago, New Zealand, Australia and Amsterdam". [6]

In 2006, the Austrian Institut für Medienarchäologie (IMA) released a 20-minute documentary film, directed by Elisabeth Schimana, titled Rebekah Wilson aka Netochka Nezvanova. [7] In this video documentary, Rebekah Wilson discusses her central role in the NN collective, disclosing how she legally changed her name to Netochka Nezvanova in 1999, before changing it back to her birth name in 2005.

Software works

Besides the numerous software projects, her CD entitled "KROP3ROM||A9FF" was released by Decibel Records in 1997. A second CD entitled sin(x) was released by 0f0003 in 2000.

Other software created by NN

Musical works

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1849): Netochka Nezvanova . Translated with an introduction by Jane Kentish. Penguin Books. 1985. ISBN   0-14-044455-6
  2. ↑ Ackerman, Elise (2001-05-05). "Programmer's identity a cyberage mystery". San Jose Mercury News. Archived from the original on 2001-10-31. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
  3. 1 2 Cramer, Florian (2005). WORDS MADE FLESH : Code, Culture, Imagination. Rotterdam: Piet Zwart Institute. pp. 114–115.
  4. ↑ Husain, Amber (2020-09-01). "Virtual Tower, 'Virtual' Pit: On Potentiality and the Status of Unrealised Art". Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry. 50: 76–93. doi:10.1086/712848. ISSN   1465-4253. S2CID   229162276.
  5. ↑ "Top25 Award - The Winners". 2001-03-31. Archived from the original on 2001-03-31. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
  6. 1 2 Mieszkowski, Katharine (March 2, 2002). "The most feared woman on the Internet". Salon. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
  7. ↑ Schimana, Elisabeth (2006). "portrait #02 Rebekah Wilson aka Netochka Nezvanova". IMA Institut für Medienarchäologie. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
  8. ↑ "NET ART ANTHOLOGY: m9ndfukc.0+99". NET ART ANTHOLOGY: m9ndfukc.0+99. 2016-10-27. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  9. ↑ The Art Happens Here : Net Art Anthology. Rhizome. 2019. pp. 126–128. ISBN   978-0692173084.
  10. ↑ "Netochka Nezvanova | transmediale". transmediale.de. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
  11. ↑ "|\|05+/-\|_G!/-\.m2cht.fre!!! |>!G35+ [weiss, taiuti, cramer]". <nettime. 2004-08-25. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
  12. ↑ R.A. Falesch: It's All in How You Hex It, Retrieved on: 2008-01-15
  13. ↑ "Retrieved on: 2008-01-15" . Retrieved 2014-06-02.
  14. ↑ "Retrieved on: 2008-01-15". Nettime.org. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
  15. ↑ "Retrieved on: 2008-01-15". Circadian.net. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
  16. ↑ "Retrieved on: 2008-01-15". Dustedmagazine.com. 2002-10-17. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
  17. ↑ Retrieved on: 2008-01-15 Archived August 5, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  18. ↑ Retrieved on: 2008-01-15 Archived October 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  19. ↑ Retrieved on: 2008-01-15 Archived November 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  20. ↑ "Retrieved on: 2010-11-21". Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2010-11-21.

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