Code as an attitude For years I’ve been\r\ngetting e-mails from a mysterious person. They don’t come to me personally,\r\nbut to those lists that deal with net.art (all of them), which I am on,\r\ntoo. Several come every day.<\/p>\r\n This mysterious person is first called =cw4t7abs<\/b>, then antiorp<\/b>, after that integer<\/b>, later typedmess<\/b>, a9ff<\/b>, f1f0<\/b>, and recently Netochka Nezvanova<\/b>. It is not difficult to realise that this is all the same person, as the form of the e-mails are easily identifiable. They look just like a corrupt file<\/i>, one that had been ok but now is not. Raw code. Like this:<\/p>\r\n Things like this\r\nreally liberate me, but I know people who are enslaved by it. I respect\r\nthe original language. Especially if it is organised at a level like Netochka’s:\r\nhttp:\/\/195.163.114.73\/7-11\/cw4t7abs.asp<\/a>\r\nNot to even mention that there are always some thought provoking fragments.\r\nCorrupt identity, error-horror. But what is it that liberates me?<\/p>\r\n More than a thousand e-mails in three years. I’ve got this many because I’m deep into it now. I started to read them. To be more precise, I had a glance at them, clicked at them a bit, I made a folder for them on my hard drive. S\/he stole his\/her way into my machine. And slowly I learnt a load of things.<\/p>\r\n First I had a look\r\nat his\/her site on the net, http:\/\/www.m9ndfukc.com\/<\/a>.\r\nTo be more precise, sites, because there are quite a few besides this\r\none. Brilliant deconstruction, A1 quality. Intelligent, cool coding, a\r\nrefined reorganisation of the digital landscape. The illusionist face\r\nof the World Wide Web is getting scratched, and fragments of code are\r\nlooking out of the cracks. Cyberpunk de luxe.<\/p>\r\n A special, nice touch\r\nis the geographical deconstruction. You can only guess at the author’s\r\nnationality. There is data that suggests Danish, but there are also Serbian\r\nand even New Zealand versions in existence. Well the world of dotcom and\r\ndotorg does have this advantage. Incognito, identity game. An individual\r\nand collective identity. Institution and pseudo institution. Institution\r\nart. A complete burst of effort against the “Internet corporate fascism<\/i>”\r\nthat floods the net. In a scruffy cloak of code, elegantly articulated,\r\nintelligently reasoned.<\/p>\r\n Then I understood,\r\nthe cloak of code is just the surface. The operation is much more radical.\r\nNetochka develops software under the modular names nebula\/m81<\/b>,\r\nand NATO.0+55+3d<\/b>, on the Macintosh platform, in a Max environment.\r\nMy interest increased until it turned out: this is just an instrument.\r\nS\/he composes music with it, industrial music. This is a genre that Giorgo\r\nSo\u00f3s, the Art Deco front man, in the eighties justifiably christened as\r\nstrict music. Then I listened to the music<\/a>\r\nthat is mixed by this self-produced software. Really great. Strict and\r\nrighteous. Industrial music spiced with dynamic, ethereal harmonics. Its\r\nbasic material is the net, although I only got to know this through the\r\ndescriptions. Anyway you can read a lot of exuberant articles about it\r\nin\r\nspecialist spheres<\/a>. It has been proven, the crown is the operation\r\nof the software. nebula\/m81<\/a><\/b>\r\nchanges any html code you can find on the net into sound and pictures,\r\nwhich the user<\/i> can change further by changing certain parameters.\r\nNet, game, ether<\/a>,\r\nnow more than a kilomether.<\/p>\r\n And the gender deconstruction\r\nwidens the picture with further dimensions. I still haven’t been able\r\nto determine what sex Antiorp is on the basis of the e-mails. But it’s\r\nnot as if it was supremely important anyway, as one of the sexy things\r\nabout the net is that a lot of the time you don’t know where you’re at\r\nfrom a gender aspect, but still. For a long time I thought he was a man,\r\nas his music, standpoint seems to be a masculine attitude. Sharing thoughts\r\non the technology-specific mailing lists. Errorising different net communities\r\nwith e-mail bombs (once angrily banned from nettime). Programming your\r\nown instrument. Making industrial music from the net. Good sport, Man\r\nat Work.<\/p>\r\n But when s\/he started\r\nusing the name Netochka I became suspicious. Although this doesn’t mean\r\nanything, we are used to it now, I thought, \u00e1`la rRose Selavy. But now\r\nthat s\/he won the Berlin Transmediale<\/a>\r\nartistic software prize, it turned out that she is a woman. But this still\r\nisn’t for sure, as the woman arriving to take the prize was the\r\nrepresentative of Netochka Nezvanova<\/a>. Great incognito, identity\r\ncorruption<\/a>. Maybe I’ll follow the example, too. Who’ll be my ambassador?<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n ________________________________________ <\/p>\r\n<\/center>\r\n http:\/\/www.god-emil.dk\/=cw4t7abs\/punkt-||_protokol\/punkt-||_protokol.html<\/a>\r\n
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