I am not an artwork Self_close Bang You will never be able to understand me Kissing Time Seal it and dump it in a black hole Bang I always wanted to sing … I am (not) an artwork
17/01, 19h30 Reading from my book Being Human . een bloemlezing . an anthology. at Digital Care: Performing the (feminist) internet, LAB 111, LI-MA, Amsterdam. With assistance from Elise Groenewoud and H.F. van Steensel. Photos: Pieter Kers | Beeld.nu.
From Oct. 26 to Nov. 26, I present three works ( PWEM, Future and Al(l)one ) in Pixel Poetry, an online group exhibition at upstream.gallery, Amsterdam. Extended to Dec. 23. With also work by Harm van den Dorpel, Constant Dullaart, Adina Glickstein, Joan Heemskerk, Noor Nuyten, Marijke De Roover, Rafaël Rozendaal, Sasha Stiles + Technelegy, Alex Turgeon and Damon Zucconi
Can the essence of a website called Being Human created between 1997 and 2007, be translated into a book in 2023?
I am very happy and proud to announce the release of my book Being Human . een bloemlezing . an anthology The book is part of the exhibition REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.
The book is multi-lingual and contains 44 poems, a Fore Words / Voor Woorden by Erika Fülöp, an Ad Verbs / Bij Woorden by me. The graphic design is by Alexandre Leray.
A book as a derivative of something that is gone, which at least, now can no longer be experienced as in the time when it was made. … Being Human has always been a linguistic universe, in which different voices, languages, poems, codes and variables mingle into a labyrinthine whole. And so it appeared a challenge and logical to me to try to capture Being Human into a book, into a collection of poetry.
“A fantastic and fascinating semiotic mess. It is text. Type undefined. We bounce back and forth between languages that we understand and others we don’t, between ourselves and others, between humans and the space between them, caught in the interface that connects and separates them and us.” Erika Fülöp.
The book is for sale at NAI Booksellers, Museumpark 25, Rotterdam and with UNDERBELLY. You can also order one with me. (24 euro) ISBN: 9789090376318, 160 pages, A5, hardcover, print edition 150 copies.
Debra Solomon, ‘the_living’, 1997-1998. Grafical design: Jacob Hoving.
Vernissage REBOOT, Pioneering Digital Art, Saturday October 7 18h30, Auditorium, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. Free entrance, Sign up HERE.
Exposition 8/10/2023 – 1/04/2024 Twenty ground-breaking digital artworks from the Netherlands, which helped define our societal relationships with technology, are on display, alongside new works by ten makers who take inspiration from them in looking towards the future.
Curators: Sanneke Huisman of LI-MA and Klaas Kuitenbrouwer of Nieuwe Instituut.
Works by Annie Abrahams, Livinus and Jeep van de Bundt, Driessens & Verstappen, Edward Ihnatowicz, JODI, Bas van Koolwijk, Lancel/Maat, Jan Robert Leegte, Yvonne Le Grand, Peter Luining, Martine Neddam, Marnix de Nijs and Edwin van der Heide, Dick Raaijmakers, Joost Rekveld, Remko Scha, Jeffrey Shaw, Debra Solomon, Steina, Peter Struycken, and Michel Waisvisz.
Contemporary responses by Janilda Bartolomeu, Cihad Caner, Dries Depoorter, Swendeline Ersilia, Ali Eslami, Jonas Lund, Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters, Katja Novitskova, Ekim Tan, and brui5er.
Being Human will be presented as: A projection of BramTV, 2005 (online version) Three screens with BramTVspecial Collection 1, 2 and 3, 2006 (offline stand alone version) And a poetry book: Being Human . een bloemlezing . an anthology, 2023.
Wie is de schepper van digitale kunst?, Tonya Sudiono, recensie NRC, 9/11/2023.
“Iets verderop bombardeert Being Human (1997-2007) van Annie Abrahams de bezoeker met vragen, beweringen en adviezen over jaloezie, pijn en andere emoties”, uit Pioniers van de stekkerkunst, Edo Dijksterhuis in Museumtijdschrift recensie 10/01 2024.
The essay surveys works of electronic literature and digital art initiated in the earliest months of the pandemic that are reflective of the specific conditions and anxieties of the period. Critical readings of these works provide a better understanding of how electronic literature and digital art were used to process the experience and communicate the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Works discussed in the essay: xtine burrough, I Got Up 2020, Pandemic Edition Marino family, Coronation Bilal Mohammed, Lost Inside: A Digital Inquiry Jody Zellen, Ghost City, Avenue S Patrick Lichty, Confinement Spaces Guilia Carla Rossi, The British Library Simulator Ben Grosser, The Endless Doomscroller Nick Montfort, Sonnet Corona Amaranth Borsuk, Curt Curtal Sonnet Corona Mark Sample, The Infinite Catalog of Crushed Dreams Jörg Piringer, Complete COVID-19 Genome as a Sound Poem Annie Abrahams, Pandemic Encounter Utterings, Breathing Milton Läufer, Virus is a Word Giselle Bieguelman and collaborators, Corona/Coranario Sharon Daniel and Erik Loyer, Exposed Alex Saum-Pascual, Room #3, Mark Sample, Content Moderator Sim
… Many of the works discussed are short-form and constitute responses to specific aspects of the pandemic experience. None of them attempt to narrativize the pandemic on a holistic basis, in the way that, for example, an encyclopædic systems novel might. But read together, these digital works provide us with a powerful and panoramic digital narrative of something we have all experienced, and supply us with a basis, a set of tools, for processing a pandemic that will mark the lives of an entire generation.
On Pandemic Encounter they write: … Our bodies have become political by virtue of their vulnerability. This is of course immediately felt for the most vulnerable, the diseased, the minority body at the ‘wrong’ space or time, but during the pandemic it seems that we have all felt this vulnerability and potentially empathized with the ones suffering. Breathing signifies the minimal condition for being, for being critical, political and personal. Abrahams’ piece, thus, besides being about her personal vulnerability becomes a piece about everybody’s vulnerability and the political dimensions of this. It is a piece about isolation and about sound. …
door Annie Abrahams met technische assistentie Jan de Weille
De gedichten evolueren in een loop; langzaam, één zin, woord of slechts teken per keer. Het ritme is afgestemd om de aandacht vast te houden, maar ook om de bezoeker de tijd te geven om na te denken en zich te verwonderen.
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