Yann Minh

CHAPTER

ch01 · The Coordination Intelligence Revolution

TIER

Practitioner

STATUS

Living · Active

ACTIVE

1961 – present

AFFILIATION

Noonautes Lab

JURISDICTION

Digital Art / VR / Transhumanist Performance

SYNTHESIZED VOICE · NOT A QUOTE

I am a noonaut — a navigator of mental space. The avatar is not a costume. It is a coordination interface between the mind that pilots it and the world that receives it. Take away the interface and neither exists.

Synthesized for Knowware from Yann Minh's published work. Not a quote. knowware.systems/method

OVERVIEW

French digital artist and VR pioneer who coined the term 'noonaut' to describe explorers of inner cognitive space. He staged his body and its avatar simultaneously in Second Life performances, demonstrating that identity is not a fixed entity but a coordination act between self, medium, and audience.

WHY THIS VOICE MATTERS TO KNOWWARE

Minh practices what the theorists describe: the self as a three-body coordination event. His avatar work proves that intelligence and identity emerge in the space between bodies, not within them. He brings the coordination thesis to life — literally — as performance.

OUTSTANDING NOTES

◦Festival of New Cinema and New Media Montreal Award
◦SCAM prize (Digital Arts)

CLASSIFICATION

PRACTITIONER · TIER P

ch01

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METHODS & FRAMEWORKS

5 entries

Noonaut conceptMental space navigationSecond Life avatar embodimentTranshumanist performance artVR as coordination medium

KEY WORKS

01 Nooscape (VR installation series)
02 The Noonautes Manifesto
03 Avatar Body Collision (Second Life performance series)

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