Nato.0+55+3d (released in 1999) was an amazing but notorious extension for Max that enabled live programming of real time video manipulation, networking and display.
"At the time of its release (the summer of 1999), NATO.0+55+3d was in demand as it appeared several years before other similar infrastructures such as GEM and Jitter (released by the makers of Max/MSP in October 2002). Earlier software such as Image/ine developed in 1997 at STEIM was drawing in a similar direction, but the fact that NATO.0+55+3d was operating inside the Max/MSP framework, using its "visual programming" protocol, provided at the same time greater ease of use and more flexibility, allowing the user to create his own applications and tools. It gained popularity among video artists and performers, who were using it for a large variety of purposes, prominently for live performance and interactive installation."
"The last version of NATO.0+55+3d modular was released in November 2000, while additional NATO objects were developed until June 2001."
I say it was notorious, due to the "art persona" who developed it:
"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."
Salon wrote an interesting article about her and her antics (including her lawsuit against Cycling '74, developer of Max): "The most feared woman on the Internet: Netochka Nezvanova is a software programmer, radical artist and online troublemaker. But is she for real?"
"NN's reputation is based on mouth 2 mouth adverti.cement. When something is very well konstruckted and designed with a degree of integrity it stands on its own ... All the cool girls wear NN."
"As a community destroyer, she's fantastic," says Bernstein, the Brooklyn artist. "She's perhaps one of the Internet's first professional demolition experts. She's a real talent."
"The legend is entirely negative, in a sense. But it turns out that people are really attracted to that," says David Zicarelli, the founder of Cycling '74, a small software company in San Francisco,
"Her contribution as a Net artist is in some ways more culturally significant than her work as a programmer," says Beatrice Beaubien.
10. When thrown off a mailing list,
I have not been thrown off a mailing list.
I have been illegally transformed into a yellow flower.
A young girl one day found me, and with half closed eyes whispered:
Perfection,
Today you've peered in my direction.
I understood very little of that, but if someone named Case or Casey was tasked to discover NN’s true identity by a shadowy billionaire or rogue AI I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the plot summary from an upcoming William Gibson novel.
With in-depth descriptions of Japanese reproductions of American workwear.
Wow, what an interesting internet-rabbithole. Thank you. The archivist slash computer nerd in me finds this a very interesting crossover between forgotten internet lore and a charismatic personality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nato.0%2B55%2B3d
"At the time of its release (the summer of 1999), NATO.0+55+3d was in demand as it appeared several years before other similar infrastructures such as GEM and Jitter (released by the makers of Max/MSP in October 2002). Earlier software such as Image/ine developed in 1997 at STEIM was drawing in a similar direction, but the fact that NATO.0+55+3d was operating inside the Max/MSP framework, using its "visual programming" protocol, provided at the same time greater ease of use and more flexibility, allowing the user to create his own applications and tools. It gained popularity among video artists and performers, who were using it for a large variety of purposes, prominently for live performance and interactive installation."
"The last version of NATO.0+55+3d modular was released in November 2000, while additional NATO objects were developed until June 2001."
I say it was notorious, due to the "art persona" who developed it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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."
Salon wrote an interesting article about her and her antics (including her lawsuit against Cycling '74, developer of Max): "The most feared woman on the Internet: Netochka Nezvanova is a software programmer, radical artist and online troublemaker. But is she for real?"
https://www.salon.com/2002/03/01/netochka/
"NN's reputation is based on mouth 2 mouth adverti.cement. When something is very well konstruckted and designed with a degree of integrity it stands on its own ... All the cool girls wear NN."
"As a community destroyer, she's fantastic," says Bernstein, the Brooklyn artist. "She's perhaps one of the Internet's first professional demolition experts. She's a real talent."
"The legend is entirely negative, in a sense. But it turns out that people are really attracted to that," says David Zicarelli, the founder of Cycling '74, a small software company in San Francisco,
"Her contribution as a Net artist is in some ways more culturally significant than her work as a programmer," says Beatrice Beaubien.
NN's response to that article:
http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-bold-020...