Ours Lingages

21/07 2017 10PM Performance Ours Lingages
Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória, Porto.
during the Electronic Literature Organisation conference ELO 2017
Annie Abrahams featured artist
invited by Rui Torres and Sandy Baldwin

Performance in collaboration with Daniel Pinheiro, Isabel Costa, Igor Stromajer, Outranspo (Lily Robert-Foley, Camille Bloomfield, Jonathan Baillehache), and the readingclub.

Ours Lingages. The internet is my language mother. I speak with a voice that’s not my own, I speak in other voices, not my voice. We are all e-strangers, all nomads that use globish bastard languages. We are the alienated translated (wo)men in-between code and emotion, in-between our wish to be visible and our longing for intimacy. L’entre-deux = void. Can’t we be “with” instead?
Translation is a joy as long as you can accept the imperfections of the result, are willing to learn, to spend time, to pay attention, to take risks and to accept your own incompleteness and glitches. Translation is always failing, faulty, it’s a source for confusion … and discovery. It opens a third language; another in-between, and then a fourth and … Better take nothing for granted and play with it. Be the one not looking at what something is, but at what something can do.
You have to accept (a FEW times). A few times. New language. Let’s try to be “with”.

Filed under: e-literature, Of interest, Performance, Daniel Pinheiro, Electronic Literature Organisation, ELO 2017, Igor Stromajer, multilinguism, outranspo, ReadingClub

The Laboratory of Networked Behavior

After my Networked Conversations interview with Randall Packer on the 13th of Mai, Randall wrote an interesting article called The Laboratory of Networked Behavior.

“Only through questioning, probing, getting dirty, and embracing the messiness of online behavior, can we even come close to any kind of understanding of what lies ahead of us in our mediated lives. That is why the work of Annie Abrahams, along with the other intrepid artist-investigators of the Net, is so crucial to our survival amidst the encroachment of the telematic embrace.”

And here is the recording of the interview : performance as reality – performance is reality.

And a preparation for the talk .pdf (very elaborate overview of my online performance history – not complete though)

Filed under: Articles / Texts, Interview, networked performance, research, Randall Packer, Third Space Network, timeline, behaviour, remote, online, behaviors

What is and Why Agency Art?

Every hour we move, we relax the body – Exercice during the online intervention.

18/06 2017 11h.
Networked performance art and engagement – What is and Why Agency Art?
Internet, Arte y Compromiso, Centre Culturel Puertas de Castilla (Murcia). Invitation Veronica Perales.

Download the document prepared .pdf

“Where can agency art be online nowadays in the time of social media, in the time of not choosing, but consuming, scrolling, being fed and harvested? In conversations, building trust and attention.
Examples : Third Space Network and Furtherfield.”

Preparation for the event – exister en double – quadruple ….

More on Agency Art

Filed under: Conference / lecture, Of interest, Agency Art, Art and engagement, Arte y Compromiso, networked performance, Veronica Perales

Une pratique du texte numérique qui dévoile ?

Lundi 19 juin 2017 20h30
Une pratique du texte numérique qui dévoile ?
Présentation dans la table ronde
Le texte élusif dans la littérature numérique
organisée par Yan Rucar

Annie Abrahams,
Philippe Bootz – Le texte absent comme indice d’une inadaptation
collectif RYBN – d’écriture algorithmiques
au
Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle.
Colloque Des humanités numériques littéraires ?
Sous la direction de Didier Alexandre, Milad Doueih et Marc Douguet.

Une texte sur écran n’est pas un texte, c’est peut être un image. Un texte qu’on scrolle se passe, mais ne passe pas, des bribes, des moments qui filent c’est tout. Un texte doit être au présent, rester, prendre le temps. Un texte ne peut pas se dérouler, sinon c’est un scénario. Un texte d’un temps défini impressionne, détourne, manipule, prend le dessus, m’enferme dans lui-même et souvent me laisse indifférent. Je veux pouvoir malaxer, mixer, mordre, analyser, déchiffrer un texte, y revenir, voir les détails, son histoire, je veux lui donner une mémoire, connaître son adresse, savoir d’où il vient, ce qu’il raconte. Pour pouvoir dévoiler / un rapport / une relation / soi-même / un autre / un texte a besoin de temps, de temps, de temps.

Il n’y a que le dévoilement qui compte. Le texte est la matière du dévoilement. Retour.

Ma préparation : en html ici

Filed under: Conference / lecture, Cerisy, humanités numériques, littérature numérique, Philippe Bootz, RYBN, Yan Rucar

more precursors – a kisstory

You can make a story of telematic communication by looking at how people experiment with distanced kissing over time. Can you?

(Image from the collections of Galloway & Rabinowitz)

In 1975, five years before their groundbreaking Hole-in-Space piece, Sherrie Rabinowitz and Kit Galloway used a selfmade experimental setup in the Sony Salon on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. Kit had a key and so they could use it after the opening hours of the showroom.
Kit and Sherrie did a lot of “Aesthetic Research in Telecommunications.” When I visit the website that documents this, I recognize they discovered and practiced probably all formal possibilities of being together in a composite image space. A feast of recognition.
They used split-screen, key images, life tv-footage and sometimes props. In what they called the space with no geographical borders they wanted to get rid of all borders, the split-screen border included and the above image of their kiss is an excellent example of the sensuality the merging of image-ambassadors can provoke.

Later this technique was used by Paul Sermon in Telematic Dreaming, a ISDN digital telephone installation from 1993. Nowadays, Daniel Pinheiro in Will you dance with me?! (2017) starts working in this direction. Station House Opera (among others) in 2016 was also using this technique in the At Home in Gaza and London performance project.

A Telematic Kissing Timeline?

• Early twentieth century Telegraphic Kiss. (postcard see at the bottom)
• 1938 Facsimile telegraph transmission kiss (article in Popular Mechanics )
• 1957 Jerry Lewis and Celeste Holm split-screen kiss – live via terrestrial microwave linked TV. Image, info, video here.
• 1974  Nam June Paik and Shirley Clarke splitscreen kiss – technical design of the installation by David Cort of the Videofreex. Image, info here.
• 1975 Kit Galloway, and Sherrie Rabinowitz composite image space, using Sony Salon technology – In 1977 they start experimenting with satelite transmission.
• 2007 Annie Abrahams and Nicolas Frespech, One the puppet of the other, live split-screen internet performance.
• 2008 Annie Abrahams and Mark River The Big Kiss. Durational performance in an split-screen installation.
• 2011 “Kissenger” the world’s only kiss transfer device.
• 2014 Lancel and Maat develop E.E.G. Kiss, a tentative to device a communal kiss.

Image from the collections of Galloway & Rabinowitz  1938 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/telegraph-kisses-are-new-fad/

Telegraphic Kiss Postcard – early twentieth century. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/tag/vice/

Filed under: Of interest, history, kisstory, Kit Galloway, Sherrie Rabinowitz, telematic communication, The Big Kiss, timeline

Another precursor of The Big Kiss

A few days ago Kit Galloway after his Networked Conversation with Randall Packer in the Third Space Network send Randall what might be the very first attempted transcontinental split-screen kiss – live via terrestrial microwave linked TV.

Jerry Lewis in Los Angeles and Celeste Holm in New York (She was an actress and the mother of Ted Nelson, the inventor of hypertext)  opened the 29th Academy Awards – the Oscars in 1957 with an “akward”, prude kiss.

The other precursor was 17 years later in 1974 and was by Nam June Paik and Shirley Clarke. More about the discovery of this last version by the Videofreex here.

Filed under: Of interest, Celeste Holm, Jerry Lewis, Kit Galloway, microwave transmission, networked performance, Randall Packer, Ted Nelson, The Big Kiss

Networked Conversations

Image courtesy of the Third Space Network

After Videofreex and Kit Galloway and before Gene Youngblood I’ll be Randall Packer‘s third guest in the Networked Conversations series.

Saturday May 13th 6pm – 7pm Paris time. (Find your local time here.)

To participate you should go to the Third Space Network.
https://connect.ntu.edu.sg/thirdspacenetwork/
Select “Guest,” type your name, and “Enter Room.”

Networked Conversations is a series of live, online interviews and discussions hosted by Randall Packer. The series features media artists, curators, writers, and activists exploring a broad range of social, political and aesthetic topics at the intersection of net culture. Networked Conversations collapses geographical and cultural boundaries via participatory Internet chat: free & open & accessible from anywhere in the world.
For more information visit:
http://www.thirdspacenetwork.com/

Filed under: Interview, Of interest, collaboration, history, Intimacy, networked performance, Randall Packer, Third Space Network

Meeting Outranspo

Outranspo (Ouvroir de translation potencial) is a motley group of multilingual translators, writers, researchers and musicians who joyously devote themselves to creative approaches to translation. More information here.

Last Friday they invited me to one of their monthly online meetings.

I did a short introduction to my from estranger to e-stranger book (available as .pdf and as paperback), read some fragments from it and then we went to the ReadingClub.

First session : 10 minutes – 3 authors – colors.
Result:
Galvin <3, Mistère and a Volga boatman
http://readingclub.fr/pad/58de383953621f374d000003

(please wait a few sec before pushing the arrow – the timeline needs to be loaded)

Second session : 10 minutes – 3 authors –  no colors.
Result:
Kein …. recul, keine Ablösragung
http://readingclub.fr/pad/58de3a6553621f374d00000

Outranspo discovered how, in this interface, an imposed limited number of characters influences the collective reading / writing experience. In the ReadingClub you have to erase to continue to write – in the ReadingClub you are collaborating and fighting at the same time.

Afterwards Chris remarked: “It changes how we relate to writing in time. Instead of seeing writing as an end result you can see it as a permanent present.”
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(: Outranspo told me I am Outranspo by anticipation. :)

Filed under: Collective writing, Event, drunken boat, e-stranger, from estranger to e-stranger, outranspo, ReadingClub, unaussprechbarlich

Co-incidences 18 – Yann Le Guennec

Yann Le Guennec.
Co-incidences no 18.
Revue d’arts et créations.
ISBN 9781326828899

Avec :

Sylvie Bourguet, Annie Abrahams, Olivier Auber, Ann Guillaume, Antoine Moreau, Laurent Neyssensas.

p 41 – 50 version spéciale “who’s afraid of ? La vie en intelligence collective” – les archives – une pièce de théâtre en deux actes d’après un échange émail de 2005 entre les membres du groupe Lieudit.

Vous pouvez acheter Co-incidences 18 en version papier ou le regarder en ligne.

Je suis fière d’avoir participé à ce beau numéro qui rend hommage a cet artiste intéressant disparu trop tôt.

Filed under: Articles / Texts, Net art, Of interest, co-incidences, DATABAZ, lieudit.org, Yann Le Guennec

ϟℙ∀ℳℳ▁ℙϴШ€ℜ – Beyond (spectacle) – test – glitched

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SPAMM_POWER

Curators : Ellectra Radikal & Systaime

ϟℙ∀ℳℳ is a virtual online museum dedicated to digital arts and emerging cultures.

BEYOND (SPECTACLE) – TEST GLITCHED
Original performance test with Igor Stromajer.
Performance Writing Weekend – ELMCIP Seminar 2012 – Arnolfini Bristol.

Filed under: Exhibition, Net art, Ellectra Radikal, Igor Stromajer, SPAMM, spamm_power, Systaime