Symposium

Living in Limnos, Betwixt and Between: A Trans-Reality Balkan Odyssey
Gheorghe Dan
0f0003
http://www.0f0003.com

Summary

Living in Limnos, Betwixt and Between:
\\ A Trans-Reality Balkan Odyssey

Reaching for you I have reached the end of myself
And what is it you saw?
My self ...
      (Conversation with the Goddess of Illusion)

This paper discusses Netochka Nezvanova (NN), a seven year long matrioska-reality Glass Bead Experiment grown within the global-mindscape, dispersed and dissipated within the panoply of actions and interactions, mutualism, parasitism, mimicry and errors which form the basis of the Internet, a global network that spans the planet, a live membrane consisting of more than 10000 networks and more than one million computers. Netochka Nezvanova was 'born' in 1999, without a mother. She entered sacred time through the infinite mourning of space.

Myriad theories began to clamor about the persona or avatar or software that function as NN, yet they were vague and unsubstantiated. That the mystery persists for seven years
could be intentional. In our modern epoch of game playing, NN may be a phantasmagorical Internet experiment, manifesting herself in forms utterly alien to reason and reflexivity, a pataphysical black hole that consumes the bodies falling prey to its seductively intoxicating and euphoric 'love theory', in the process experiencing a melange of singularities.

Who, how, what, when, why and where NN is must be delegated to each individual encountering her. This is both exquisitely mysterious and maddeningly complex, for if interactions with NN are not fully believable, then those categories of thought and action are not a reliable basis upon which we may posit what the "real" NN is.

Sometimes ... reality is too complex for oral communication.
But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world, half way between reality and dream.
I am the body of nothing but radiance, the space untouched,
where one keeps still...

Biography

Gheorghe Dan is artistic director and researcher for 0f0003,
a phylotically entwined polymorphic web of covalent potentialities,
a multi-cultural/scientific laboratory, promulgating generative storytelling, evolutionary design, autopoetic systems and hybrid reality multiverses.

Gheorghe's vast assemblage of intricate fairytales, theatre-plays, software systems, and audio-visual environments, have been exhibited internationally, embrocated with prestigious awards, and implanted globally in academic curricula.

His current research explores a nuanced bouquet of intuitive programming, autopoetic systems, hybrid realities and heterotopic multiverse continuums. In collaboration with an international consortium he is directing the research and development of Balkan.OS, the first multi-world operating system.