Netochka Nezvanova (author)
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 first novel "Netochka Nezvanova" (1849) and translates as "nameless nobody." Identity. Netochka Nezvanova has been described by cultural critics as "an elusive online identity" and "a collective international project". 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". In 2001, Netochka Nezvanova was named as one of the Top 25 Women on the Web by a San Francisco non-profit group. 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?". 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". 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". In 2006, the Austrian "Institut für Medienarchäologie" (IMA) released a 20-minute documentary film, directed by Elisabeth Schimana, titled "Rebekah Wilson aka Netochka Nezvanova". 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.