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Saturday, March 02, 2002
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/01/netochka/print.html The most feared woman on the Internet Katharine Mieszkowski For someone who does not exist -- at least the way you or I do -- Netochka Nezvanova has a fearsome reputation. She's a gifted computer programmer and polemicist, an artist and a pain-in-the-ass, a critic of capitalism and fascism, as well as a capitalist and a marketer. Artists use her software, Nato.0+55, to manipulate video for live performance and installations. But some see Netochka herself as a work of art, an online spectacle many years running that's one of the Net's great performances. Officially, Netochka is the public face of the shadowy arts collective NATOarts, which sells a software tool kit used to sample and morph digital video in real time. Netochka gives the interviews and makes the appearances at digital art and technology conferences for NATOarts. Except that when she shows up in person, she's frequently embodied by different women....
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