Re:Netochka Nezvanova
by diz on Thursday August 20, 2009 @09:36AM
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I was just thinking of Netochka, yesterday, as everyone was talking about how the internet persona and alias _why was an artwork in itself. Despite all of _why's accomplishments and contributions, which are more and greater than Netochka, Netochka will go down as a much greater artist and phenomenom.
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Netochka was not only more dramatic, but thematic. As the original article says, she helped reinforced the cyberspace mythology her audience was interested in. _why reinforced hacker mythology mind you, but cyberspace culture is much bigger.
Yeah, you're right, I shouldn't have said that _why contributed more, just that _why's contributions reached wider audiences, at least in a direct way.
It's nice to see that there are some art hackers, or informed members, on hacker news, though!
I recommend you swing by MeatballWiki (http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl). Nine and a half years ongoing, that's where I express my artistic side, including the article linked above coincidentally.
Here I'm mostly representing my day job.