nato.0+55+3d
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| nato.0+55+3d | |
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 A typical nato patch. |
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| Developed by | Netochka Nezvanova |
| Latest release | nato.0+55+3d.modular / 2001 |
| OS | Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9 |
| Genre | interdisciplinary m9ndfukc |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | eusocial.org (archive) |
nato.0+55+3d (previously nato.0+55) is a set of modular video processing and QuickTime control objects, authored by the Netochka Nezvanova collective. Built upon the Max software environment (on the Macintosh platform), it provides tools for recording, playing, combining, creating and manipulating video in real time, and allows flexible integration with internet/networks, 3D, text and sound.
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[edit] History
At the time of its release (the summer of 1999[1]), nato.0+55+3d was in demand as it appeared several years before other similar infrastructures such as GEM and Jitter (produced by the makers of Max/MSP directly). Earlier software such as Image/ine developed in 1997 at STEIM was drawing in a similar direction[2], 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,[3] allowing the user to create his own applications and tools. Therefore, despite (or thanks to) the controversies raised by the aggressive self representation of the authors (aka "korporat warfare") and the mechanisms of arbitrariness and control that the users were subjected to, it gained popularity among video artists and performers, which were using it for a large variety of purposes, prominently for live performance and interactive installation.
After two years, the development of nato.0+55+3d came to a halt, the last published extension being the object 242.nasdaq, released in June 2001[4] (an external that allowed the interfacing of Max/MSP with stock exchange data). While at that time, Macintosh users were shifting towards the new operating system Mac OS X, nato.0+55+3d was never ported to OS X and cannot run in classic mode. Most users regard it nowadays as obsolete, since it is not possible to run it on computers produced after 2003.
[edit] nato.0+55 pilots
Some of the most prominent users of nato.0+55:
- 242.pilots (Kurt Ralske, HC Gilje, Lukasz Lysakowski) - live video improvisation ensemble, winners of the Transmediale award 2003 in the category "Image" for their video performance DVD Live In Bruxelles, released on the Carpark imprint in November 2002. [1]
- Farmers Manual - the Austrian collective was among the first artists to integrate nato visuals into their performances. Their twelve-hour performance "Help Us Stay Alive", which was presented and awarded at FCMM festival in Montreal, October 1999, was using the nato software. The group held a max/nato/pd workshop[5] at Avanto festival in 2001.
- fiftyfifty.org - media art collective based in Barcelona. Its members Pedro Soler and Mia Makela (aka SOLU) were very active promoters of nato, organizing numerous workshops and using the software in live performance[6]. [2][3]
- Johnny Dekam - founder of VIDVOX. Used nato to create 'Revision History', an artistic software that autonomously downloads and transforms images from the Library of Congress' Database. [4] His commercial VJing software VDMX (released in 2001) was originally based on nato.0+55. [5]
- The Builders Association - American multimedia theater company. Used nato for their piece Xtravaganza, performed in 2000 at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New York Guggenheim Museum.[7]During the piece, "live actors [were] keyed into old movie footage"[8]. [6]
- portable[k]ommunity - Japanese audiovisual duo (Jun Horikiri and Taeji Sawai). Made extensive use of nato.0+55 in their video installations and live shows, at locations including ISEA, sónar and ICC Tokyo. Gave a nato workshop at Kyushu Institute of Design in 2001. [7]
- N3krozoft Ltd - This multimedia art collective was using nato.0+55 in live performances and video installations up to 2004.[9]
- Fork Unstable Media - German design team. Did an installation using nato at Sónar 2000 (Barcelona Museum of Modern Art). Created shprootC3ll, a freeware videomixer built with nato, in 1999. [8]
- John Dekron - developed the first version of his commercial VJing software ES_5 (now ES_X) with nato. [9]
- Meta - produced numerous videos and internet applications built with nato. [10]
Significant workshops centered on the use of nato.0+55+3d were held 2000-2002 at many locations including: Bergen (BEK, August 2000[10]), Paris (IRCAM, October 2000), Rotterdam (DEAF_00 festival, November 2000[11]), Sheffield (Lovebytes festival, March 2001), New York (Harvestworks, April 2001), Leipzig (HGB, Mai 2001), Amsterdam (STEIM, Mai and December 2001, April 2002), Barcelona (Hangar, June 2001), Stralsund (Garage, August 2001[12]), Paris (Betaville, August 2001[13]), Helsinki (Avanto, November 2001[5]), Fukuoka/Japan (Kyushu Institute of Design, November 2001), Stuttgart (XML, January 2002), Paris (Villette Numérique, September 2002[14]), Berlin (Underscan, September 2002), Newcastle/Australia (Electrofringe, October 2002).
[edit] References
- ^ Gilje, HC (2005), “Within the space of an instant”
- ^ Kosnik, Marko (2002-02-02), an open letter to imag/ine and nato users and developers, <http://music.calarts.edu/~cchaplin/lev/archive/2002-february/msg00004.html>. Retrieved on 24 August 2007
- ^ "Jitter is far more complicated and more made for engineers/programmers than Nato, which was basically a video object library for max/msp, and more fun - it seemed always so fragile, and easy to loose." - Mia Makela, aka SOLU, in: Solu Dot Org : VJ Interview (2005). Retrieved on 2007-08-24.
- ^ announcement of 242.nasdaq on the nettime mailing list, June 2001.
- ^ a b Avanto Akatemia 2001 (2001). Retrieved on 2007-08-24.
- ^ Makela, Mia & Brusadin, Vanni (2001), “Small is Beautiful - a packet switching conversation”, Subsol, <http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/ff-dinatext.html>. Retrieved on 20 January 2008
- ^ Morey, Jeff (2000-12-08), “Xtravaganza avec nato @ Guggenheim”, MaxMSP Mailing-list, <http://www.cycling74.com/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=2068&rid=0&S=a70c3c0d542625da063484a676abe849>. Retrieved on 20 January 2008
- ^ Bacalzo, Dan (2002-04-25), “Xtravaganza”, theatermania.com, <http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/2106>. Retrieved on 20 January 2008
- ^ Masserey, Michel (2004-04-09), “De l'OTAN à NATO”, Le Temps, <http://www.n3krozoft.com/projects/art/live/balkan_presse_fr.html>. Retrieved on 7 November 2007
- ^ BEK Nato Workshop website (2000). Retrieved on 2007-08-24.
- ^ DEAF_00 Festival Program. Retrieved on 2007-08-24.
- ^ Max/Nato workshop at Garage Festival, Stralsund (2001). Retrieved on 2007-08-24.
- ^ Max/Nato workshop at Betaville , Paris (2001). Retrieved on 2007-08-24.
- ^ Villette Numérique festival program (RTF) (2002). Retrieved on 2007-08-30.
[edit] Sources
- Gilje, HC (2005). "Within the space of an instant". In: Morten Søndegaard (Ed.), Get Real, New York: George Braziller, ISBN 0-8076-1564-4. Accessed August 24 2007.
- Langlois-Mallet, David (September 20, 2001), “L'Otan, véritable logiciel de la pensée”, Politis (Paris), <http://betaville.org/presse/?a=20010920.politis>. Retrieved on 24 August 2007
- Nezvanova, Netochka (1999). "NATO.0+55: An Internet, Audio, Video, VR, 2-D, and 3-D Graphics Environment for the IRCAM/Opcode Max Programming Language". 0f0003 Arkiv 247:1-8.
- Daniels, Dieter, Sound & Vision in Avantgarde & Mainstream, Medienkunstnetz.de, <http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/image-sound_relations/sound_vision/18/>. Retrieved on 8 January 2008
[edit] External links
- [11] - description of the software from a user's point of view by Jeremy Bernstein, 2000-2001.
- [12] - first public announcement of nato.0+55 on the PD-ot mailing-list, June 21, 1999.
- [13] - archive of IRCAM's nato distribution page, Mai 2001.
- Video of a nato.0+55 workshop held at the end of 2000 - workshop leader: Johnny Dekam.
