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# Neen Manifesto
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A Few Things I Know about NEEN
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NEEN stands for Neensters, a still undefined generation of visual artists.
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Some of them belong to the contemporary art world, while others are software creators, web designers, and video game directors and animators.
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Our official theories about reality, such as quantum physics, have proved that the taste of our life is the taste of a simulation.
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Machines help us feel comfortable with this condition, as they simulate the simulation that we call nature.
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Opening the door of your room, or clicking on a folder on your computer’s desktop, will send you to similar destinations.
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These are two versions of reality that are seemingly perfect and dense, but they will start dissolving after you analyze them.
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Computing is to NEEN what fantasy was to surrealism, and what freedom was to communism.
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Computing creates its context, but it can also be postponed. Neensters buy the newest products and they study how to create momentum.
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They glorify machines, but they get easily bored with them. Sometimes they simply prefer to watch others operating them.
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Neensters find their pleasure in the in-betweens of actions. NEEN is about losing time on different operating systems.
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Neensters love copying, in the similar, but a slightly different way that the city of Hong Kong multiplies its most successful buildings.
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Names, clothes, style, art, and architecture are important for Neensters. So they create all of these things from scratch, as if what has been done before is not important.
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NEEN is very sentimental, but is not about identity, even though Neensters do occasionally use their identities as passwords in order to special certain privileges.
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Because the identity of a Neenster is in his state of mind, he is free to use the identity of another Neenster if he needs to do so.
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But this works also in reverse, as a Neenster can create artwork for another Neenster. That is the major difference between NEEN and Contemporary Art.
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While in Contemporary Art you need to be yourself all the time, a certain type of hero that is always polishing his image until he becomes a mirror of his lifetime, in NEEN, you are a kind of screen.
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A Neenster projects a temporary self that is always under construction, and that moves from the present to the past and future, without limitations.
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Because a Neenster publishes everything on the web, his state of mind reflects the public taste. Neensters are public personae.
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If fantasy brought Surrealists to the ridiculous, and revolution drove communists to failure, it will be curious to observe where computing will bring NEEN.
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Miltos Manetas, New York, 2000
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Source: http://www.manetas.com/eo/neen/manifesto.html
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