in italiano

NETOCHKA NEZVANOVA / ANTIORP
http://www.eusocial.com

Netochka Nezvanova is still one of the most mysterious entities of the net scene, refusing any stable identity and even challenging the public to attribute her name(s) to a single person. Sound researcher and author of Nato (a well known video plug-in for a real time audio mixage software), Netochka Nezvanova has produced an impressive amount of Web pages and sound works under names like antiorp, eusocial or m9ndfukc. In the last few years she has been using the name of Netochka Nezvanova, which apparently comes from an early Dostojevskij novel.

Her current website presents her software and her activity, but at the same time it is also an amazing deconstruction of the use of an Internet browser. One of the most fascinating (and often disturbing) sides of this net entity is her e-mail production: her abrupt and violent interventions in various mailing lists turn to be a real net performance, which reveals the rage of a post-feminist entity against the white, western, male and corporative domination of digital culture. At a more abstract level, this almost unique kind of repeated interventions appear to be an extreme and deranging strategy to challenge common expectations in electronic communication.

To find the thread of such an uncatchable and controversial work seems fairly impossible: the author doesn't call it net.art, but "MASCHIN3NKUNST" (the art of the machine).