Re: [microsound] who is nn? who is cb?

["The pHarmanaut" <pharmanaut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doesn't it speak to the overwhelming scarcity of female artists working in
this genre that we have male artists resorting to a kind of virtual
transvestite marketing scheme of creating these ultra-cool,
super-heroine/villainess alter-identities?

-=Trace

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From: "scissors for sparrow" <transmit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: [microsound] who is nn? who is cb?

> as a matter of trivia, the phrase from below -- "a critic of capitalism
and
> fascism, as well as a capitalist and a marketer" -- used to describe
> netochka nezvanova is strikingly similar to the following, taken from
> http://members.chello.se/mitek/mitek6cd.html, referring to claudia
bonarelli:
>
> "Claudia Bonarelli is an artist, car thief and a cultural terrorist.a
> critic of capitalism and fascism, as well as a capitalist
> and a marketer."
>
> curiously, this page continues as follows:
>
> "But who is Claudia, really? No one knows for sure, Is she one person with
> multiple identities? A female Italian artist, a male Swedish musician or
an
> Eastern European collective conspiracy?"
>
> i wonder about two things.  who plagiarised whom?  and... is it suddenly
> trendy to create ambiguous and secretive identities which could in fact be
> commandeered by subversive artistic collectives?  the problem with such
> ambiguity is that when it's played up, it relies on people actually caring
> in order to remain purposeful.
>
>
> >March 1, 2002  |  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.
>
>
>
> http://home.pacific.net.au/~transmit
>
>
>
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