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Encyclopedia > Netochka Nezvanova
Cover art for "krop3rom||a9ff", audio CD, 1997
Cover art for "krop3rom||a9ff", audio CD, 1997

Netochka Nezvanova is the persona-pseudonym used by the author(s) of nato.0+55+3d, a set of QuickTime externals for Max/MSP. Alternate and retired aliases include "=cw4t7abs", "punktprotokol", "0f0003", "maschinenkunst" (preferably spelled "m2zk!n3nkunzt"), "integer", and "antiorp". The name itself is borrowed from the main character of Fyodor Dostoevski's first novel Netochka Nezvanova (1849) and translates loosely as "nameless nobody." [1] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The name Netochka Nezvanova, which can be translated roughly as nameless nobody, is widely believed to be a pseudonym taken from the name of the eponymous title character in Fyodor Dostoevskys early unfinished novel. ... NATO.0+55+3d is a set of QuickTime software externals for the Max suite, authored by the enigmatic Netochka Nezvanova. ... QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. ... A Max/MSP patch written and used by Autechre Max is a graphical development environment for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling 74. ... Fyodor Dostoevsky. ... The name Netochka Nezvanova, which can be translated roughly as nameless nobody, is widely believed to be a pseudonym taken from the name of the eponymous title character in Fyodor Dostoevskys early unfinished novel. ...


Next to works of software art, the fame and notoriety of 'Netochka Nezvanova' is rooted in the aggressive and anti social behaviour she displayed through her various online identities on countless mailing lists and websites, by which she terrorized other internet users and the users of her own software products alike. Software art refers to works of art where software, or concepts from software, play an important role; for example software applications which were created by artists and which were intended as artworks. ...

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History

The earliest identity "=cw4t7abs" (antiorp@tezcat.com) surfaced in 1995 on mailing lists and newsgroups relating to electronic music production (for instance, the Kurzweil K2000 music synthesizer) and related Usenet groups (rec.music.makers.synth), flooding them with pretentious, nonsensical and confrontational spam messages containing insults, idiosyncratic poetry, abstract ASCII art as well as targeted personal attacks. For other uses, see Synthesizer (disambiguation). ... Usenet (USEr NETwork) is a global, decentralized, distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name. ... Look up spam, SPAM in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... ASCII art, an artistic medium relying primarily on computers for presentation, consists of pictures pieced together from characters (preferably from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII). ...


Disregarded and abhorred by the community for openly neglecting the Netiquette, her personas (at that time mostly "integer@god-emil.dk") surprisingly seemed to gain some respect during the development of the video processing software nato.0+55+3d that promised to be a tool of much interest for the emerging genre of laptop performers, VJs and electronic live-musicians. When it was finally commercially available, every detail of the cumbersome process of buying and using the software delivered the users to her despotism - from the arbitrary high pricing and cryptic documentation to hyper aggressive business practices and the clever online licensing mechanism that had users in permanent fear of having the expensive license revoked at any given time if they did not conform with Netochka's commands. Next to the software projects listed below a CD titled "KROP3ROM||A9FF" was released by Decibel Records in 1997. It shows influences by electroacustic art music as well as the industrial and techno genres. Netiquette, a portmanteau of network etiquette, is the convention on electronic forums (Usenet, mailing lists, live chat, and Internet forums) to facilitate efficient interaction. ... NATO.0+55+3d is a set of QuickTime software externals for the Max suite, authored by the enigmatic Netochka Nezvanova. ... A video jockey (usually abbreviated to VJ or sometimes veejay) can mean two things: One describes an announcer who introduces and plays videos on commercial music television such as MTV or VH1. ... For the comic book character previously known as Techno, see Fixer (comics). ...


Identity

A contribution to the enigma of Netochka Nezvanova and her various alter egos is the mystery around the persons behind them. For several years, rumors circulated that ranged from artists claiming to have in fact seen her passport to allegations that certain well-known celebrities were behind the fictitious persona. On Thursday, February 26, 1998, a New Zealand artist, Rebekah Wilson, performed an extract of A9FF at the "Electric Insights" concert at Victoria University of Wellington; This established the rumor that the originator or primary creative force behind Netochka is Rebekah Wilson. In the early 2000's however, Netochka's persona made several appearances at international media art festivals with different performers taking her place. Victoria Universitys Kelburn Campus. ...


The author Florian Cramer claims that "It is known today that N.N. was a collective international project, with the person who wrote NATO differing from the one who wrote the message [by Netochka Nezvanova] quoted above."[2]


Even though the personal identies behind the pseudonym as well as their intentions remain under some dispute even today, Nezvanova's experimental web browser "nebula.m81" co-won the 2001 artistic software award with Adrian Ward at Transmediale in Berlin, and she was awarded the fictitious post "Director of Leaves and Petals" at the Dutch live electronic music centre STEIM in Amsterdam, where Rebekah Wilson worked as a curator from 2002. Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Adrian Ward (born in 1976 in Bishop Auckland, England) is a software artist and musician. ... Transmediale is a yearly art festival, held in Berlin, Germany. ... This article is about the capital of Germany. ... STudio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) is a Center for Research and Development of instruments and tools for performers in the electronic performance arts. ...


Other software created by NN

The main interface of b1257+12
The main interface of b1257+12
  • 0f0003 propaganda (1998) - authored with Max/MSP, this program generates stylish animated graphics and sharp synthetic sounds. Offering little interactivity to the user, it can be seen as a demo, bearing aesthetic ties with the 8-bit era demoscene.
  • b1257+12 (1998) - a software for sound deconstruction and composition, authored with Max/MSP. The minimal but intricate user interface allows for radical manipulation of soundloops in realtime, offering a large amount of control parameters which, every now and then, take a life of their own. The name of the software refers to a rapidly rotating neutron star.
  • @¶31®�≠ Ÿ (1998) - this software, authored with Max/MSP, extracts random samples from a CD and creates a stochastical remix, accompanied by futuristic-looking graphics (according to the reference documents, it is intended for use with the krop3rom||a9ff release).
  • m9ndfukc.0+99 and k!berzveta.0+2 (1999) - two programs written in Java interpreting network data, very likely preliminary versions of nebula.m81.
  • kinematek.0+2 (1999) - another Java application that performs "animated image generation from internet www data", incorporating parts of nebula.m81.
  • nebula.m81 (1999) - an experimental web browser written in Java, rendering HTML code into abstract sounds and graphics. Awarded at the International Music Software Competition in Bourges 1999 and at Transmediale 2001 (first prize in the category "Artistic Software"). Described by jury member Florian Cramer as "an experimental web browser that turned browsing into something resembling measurement data evaluation"[3].
  • !=z2c!ja.0+38 (1999) - a Max/MSP application that generates a dense visual texture based on the user's keyboard input. It (ab)uses the QuickDraw capability of Max and can therefore be seen as a preliminary step towards nato.0+55.

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Notes

  1. ^ Fyodor Dostoevski (1849): Netochka Nezvanova. Translated with an introduction by Jane Kentish. Penguin Books. 1985. ISBN 0-14-044455-6
  2. ^ Cramer, Florian. (2005) "Software dystopia: Netochka Nezvanova - Code as cult" in Words Made Flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination, Chapter 4, Automatisms and Their Constraints. Rotterdam: Piet Zwart Institute. Retrieved on: 2007-07-14
  3. ^ http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0408/msg00087.html

Fyodor Dostoevsky. ... The name Netochka Nezvanova, which can be translated roughly as nameless nobody, is widely believed to be a pseudonym taken from the name of the eponymous title character in Fyodor Dostoevskys early unfinished novel. ...

References

  • Neue Kraft, Neues Werk (Transcodeur Express), a documentary film by Ninon Liotet, Olivier Schulbaum and Platoniq, shown on ARTE on april 25th 2002, features an interview with NN. http://www.platoniq.net/nknw/
  • IMA fiction: portrait #2 06, a video portrait of Rebekah Wilson, directed by Elisabeth Schimana and produced by The austrian Institute for Media Archeology. Presented at the Transmediale festival on january 31 2007. http://www.ima.or.at

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