It started with an email from my friend Marko Jobst. He found Danica on Twitter.
Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 12:34 PM
ko je zena da li mozda znas? (Do you know who's the lady?)
www.danicar.org
na twitteru: danicar
I checked it out and found it quite interesting. Especially her blog http://danicar.wordpress.com.
Web/net phenomenons, social issues and stuff. When I started to track her on Twitter she sent me a message first. So we kinda started corresponding. And it died out soon.
She sent me a message about my T-shirts in July 08 and we started FB correspondence in kinda very honest manner (private issues and stuff). She's apparently very young and honest lady. Very clever and ambitious. Traveled the world.
I saw only one photo of her. She reminded me of Mira Furlan, Croatian actress (Babylon 5 and Lost). Kinda very pretty. Although I'm into blond girls... but, wait, I'm not into girls at all. Just for the record.
I've never heard her voice (although we agreed upon Skyping sometime) or saw her in person.
She seems a bit pushy, which freaks me out a bit... especially with women (another issue of mine: slight fear of women). She's online all the time just like me. She likes Marissa Nadler just like I do. She has some Russian blood in her, just like I do.
If I were straight, I'd probably ask her for a date.
She's Aquarius (Virgo rising, just like me), which is kinda interesting. I'm Leo. Total opposite. Her open, honest and direct approach.
Anyway, after a while I invited her to do a lecture with me for the B-link festival on Virtual identities. So here we are.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
A brief history of my own net identity
Ok, I started using the Internet in 96-97. At first it was just emails, chats and forums. No online communities as we know them today.
At fist I started using my high school nickname Moćko. It was given to me by a friend of mine who was referring to my, let's just say not very masculine body type. It was a kind of a meat pate too. During my college days it turned into an English version, Mighty. Being an artist I also wanted a cool art moniker, with a little touch of irony.
In gay circles I used Ambrrose, which is a hybrid between Marcel Duchamp's female alter ego, Rrose Selavy and a character from my favorite computer game Undying, Ambrose. It was a perfect hybrid: arty, pop, dandy (Oscar Wildish) macho but feminine... The game is made by Clive Barker, a famous horror writer known to be openly gay.
Rrose Selavy ............................Ambrose
As for the avatar I used an old photo of mine that my friend has taken in 1996. It is a take on M Duchamp's Rrose Selavy.
Ambrrose
Gay culture is known for the usage of nicknames. At fist it was to conceal your own identity, but it just got stuck as a habit. So, I was playing with this elusive gender identity for a while.
I even made and artwork about it "Danse Macabre" where I used totally constructed female identity to take part in Videomedeja (female video) exhibition in Novi Sad, just to prove a pont that a man can make a female video.
http://www.the-mighty.com/webart/fishnetart.htm
In my professional representation I used Mighty or The-Mighty (I still own and use www.the-mighty.com).
In 2005 I rejected all my virtual identities and introduced my self as me. Aleksandar Maćašev.
Although I use very polished-cool photos that a student of mine taken of me. Pale, overexposed... kinda pop/goth... it's actually a try to look young and without wrinkles. At the age of 34 you start to think about things like that.
photo: Tijana Bulatović
a drawn variation
Recently I started to play with my own name. Like a Russian version (my family came from Russia few centuries ago).
Александр Раикович Матяшев
Or in the United States where people have trouble pronouncing my family name Maćašev. It is always written Macasev, and people think that I'm Scotish.
Alexander MacAsev
At fist I started using my high school nickname Moćko. It was given to me by a friend of mine who was referring to my, let's just say not very masculine body type. It was a kind of a meat pate too. During my college days it turned into an English version, Mighty. Being an artist I also wanted a cool art moniker, with a little touch of irony.
In gay circles I used Ambrrose, which is a hybrid between Marcel Duchamp's female alter ego, Rrose Selavy and a character from my favorite computer game Undying, Ambrose. It was a perfect hybrid: arty, pop, dandy (Oscar Wildish) macho but feminine... The game is made by Clive Barker, a famous horror writer known to be openly gay.
Rrose Selavy ............................Ambrose
As for the avatar I used an old photo of mine that my friend has taken in 1996. It is a take on M Duchamp's Rrose Selavy.
Ambrrose
Gay culture is known for the usage of nicknames. At fist it was to conceal your own identity, but it just got stuck as a habit. So, I was playing with this elusive gender identity for a while.
I even made and artwork about it "Danse Macabre" where I used totally constructed female identity to take part in Videomedeja (female video) exhibition in Novi Sad, just to prove a pont that a man can make a female video.
http://www.the-mighty.com/webart/fishnetart.htm
In my professional representation I used Mighty or The-Mighty (I still own and use www.the-mighty.com).
In 2005 I rejected all my virtual identities and introduced my self as me. Aleksandar Maćašev.
Although I use very polished-cool photos that a student of mine taken of me. Pale, overexposed... kinda pop/goth... it's actually a try to look young and without wrinkles. At the age of 34 you start to think about things like that.
photo: Tijana Bulatović
a drawn variation
Recently I started to play with my own name. Like a Russian version (my family came from Russia few centuries ago).
Александр Раикович Матяшев
Or in the United States where people have trouble pronouncing my family name Maćašev. It is always written Macasev, and people think that I'm Scotish.
Alexander MacAsev
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