Agnese Trocchi (Rome 10.29.71 -???)
is known as macchina, at digital entity who was born in AVaNABbs (an
hactivist radical Boullettin Board System of Rome), working as sysop(system
operator) in it and animating aereas free from any kind of moderation:
the "Debate Cyberpunk" and "Nomadism" areas.
The Boulletin Board Systems were the spaces of the mutation in
act of human perception, through the connection of tools bodies and mind.
Macchina is now working with severalCultural Association (Forthent,
Matrix, Thelema): a political front fighting to achieve the most libertarian
cyber-rights: right now the Associations are rising issues against the
City Council of Rome to obtain the development of a free Civic web Network.
This project will assure free access and free digitalspaces for every citizen.
They support the idea of a "digital citizenship" through "self manegement"
modes, as a way of giving people freeand interactive informations and tools
to inflate direct inputs in pubblic decisions. Macchina, with the forthenet
crew, is building up a freenet (fast ethernet, linux based) in a young
enclave of hactivist artist, called Forte Prenestino, to be the core of
this future Digital Polis.
In 1995 Macchina worked with the City Council of Rome and the Cultural
association Matrix. She did a cicle of lessons in a Library on the topic
/The Digital Spaces of the MOO/, using digital-video installation.
In 1996 she builded, with Costanza della Cananea,Valerio Bindi and
Valentina Fenu, the "Foro Romano Digitale" a web site commissioned
by the City Council of Rome. The web site was intended to be a database
of brainworkers in search of income and projects in search of developers.
The web site and the whole Roman Civic Network were shut down by
the City Council itself, for an Inquisition of a priest about a page
that was supposed to be "satanic". The "indicted" page was a contribute
to the degree works of Macchina "Feminine and science fiction: writing
patterns", it is was also a text published ina nation-wide distributed
magazine Torazine. The degree works was and is still online as an
open net-project, exploring the boundaries of an open body.
Macchina discussed succesfull her degree works "Feminine and
science fiction: writing patterns" in 1996, she graduated at
the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in "Sociology of Literature" course
with the highest vote, she is now Doctor in Literature.
Actually she is part of the Technical Staff of Flashnet, one of
the most popular Italian Internet Service Providers.
Pubblications:
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Hack Da Future, Infoxoa 000, nov/dic1997,
Roma [avaiable at http://www.tmcrew.org:80/infoxoa/vecchio/hip.htm]in
italian
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Sex Against the Empire, Simultaneità2/3,
1998, Roma in italian
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Guardians of the High Frontiers,Simultaneità
¾, 1999, Roma in italian
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Body Modification: Skull Trepanation,Torazine3000,
Roma in italian
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Review: teknival in Holland [avaiable
at http://www.casema.net/~sas/default.htm] in
english
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Body of the Slave, [avaiable at
The Thing Review, http://www.thing.net] in english
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Cyborg and the Body of the language,"Bios
and Biotech" workshop (Rome, november 1998) avalaible at http://www.tmcrew.org:80/bios/macch.htm]
in italian
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Hacktivism, Autonomedia press, NewYork
(in pubblications) in english
Tools:
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Sh00tc0nCePtbRAInMaCHiNE:this
is a free, dynamic text presentation system for subliminal mind attack
and other purposes. Macchina, with N.T.S.C.(a multimedia experimental crew),
is using it for video installation and video broadcasting, mixing the texts
with images and sounds. During the tour of last year (may 1998 Berna CH,Zurich
CH, Luzern CH, Geneve CH, Rotterdam NL, Groningen NL, Florence IT,Bologna
IT, waiting for Berlin and Frankfurt in 1999) ), they build up installations
of ten cabled tv screens around in the street to reproduce mixed images
of the moment as a deformed mirror. They use this stuff and slides in illegal
rave parties all around europe to favourite the psychic enjoyment of the
techno environment. The Sh00tc0nCePtbRAInMaCHiNE is also a part
of OFF_line_Tv, the internal broadcast of the Festival that Macchina, togheter
with Torazine, Fluid Video Crew, N.T.S.C, Red Spectre and Forte Prenestino,
organizes every year since 1996. In The last edition of OFF, thanks to
the sh00ttool, she created with Marco De Seriis and Fabio Lapiana
a multimedia lecture Mark Amerika's "Sexual Blood".
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f3tus0,CLOSE
EVERY RUNNING APPLICATION,SAVE EVERY UNSAVED DOCUMENT, HOPE TO HAVE A SMART
LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM. This
is an angry tools, it is a angry unborn screaming in your machine, I was
haunted by it some months ago, and after an uncoscious struggle i defeated
it, closing it in the machine. Now it runs through optic cables to haunt
more computers it can.
Projects:
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ordanomade
Since 1997, ordanomade "Childrenof the Noise age" is the
biggest web site about the italian underground techno scene in connection
with the European Counter Techno Net. It is a rizhomatic core where several
techno posses finds a place to be published, it develop critical reflection
about the Noise Age and the pratice of disorder,it host a weekly agenda
of the events, a section regarding consciusness modification (advises,
knowledges, links and experiences about drugs),it is an open eye on countercultural
happenings in Italy. Macchina has been running and sharing it with Alter8
(the other editor of the web site) from their original idea.
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the thing italia
a culture network which provides
a digital and physical context to link Italian artists,musicians, videomakers,
writers, performers to other artists, groups andnetworks around the world...it
is based on something.tm, the platform on which TheThing New York and TheThing
Frankfurt are running. The editors of Thething Italia (Agnese Trocchi,
Marco Deseris, Lapo Guzzini, Francesca Da Rimini)in this moment are looking
for the funds to run the web site.
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off999: the dismemberedbody
in act: she is developinga
section of the new release of Off Overdose Fiction Festival.This
year her aim is to work on digital broadcast and virtual flesh.
Images:
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IMG1 ; IMG2:some
pages from SpaceDolls, a zine published by a crew of dolls in New
York, Rome, Adelaide to aquire and distribute informations about Spectrums
of Dominance and Space politics of NASA
Collaborations:
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Fika Futura n° 1,1997
Shake ed.: cyberfeminist
magazine. She was contacted for the first number of the
magazine because of her experience as a digital entity. FikaPassata
( Past Pussy): reflections on Fika Futura
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Industrial Culture Handbook,italian
edition, 1998 Shake ed. The editors
of ordanomade were contacted for the italian section
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Decoder 12,1998
Shake ed.:
Contribute related to the conference with Richard Stallman organized
by AvAna in 1998 on the topic of Free Software and contribute related to
the Avant-Pop debat develop during the Overdose Fiction Festival
of 1998
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Kriptonite : crittografy, anonymity, privacyin
the digital era, 1998 Nautilus ed: she
worked togheter with T.H.E Walrus on the "Pgp User Manual". She
was also one of the beta_tester of the whole book.
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