Lire un site web ?

Lecture performative et échange autour de mon livre Being Human . een bloemlezing . an anthology *, le 5 avril à 18h00 , pendant :
Les Ecrits du Numérique # 6
REGIMES DE LECTURE
4 & 5 avril 2024, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille.

Coordination : Colette Tron et Cécile Portier (Alphabetville), Pascal Jourdana (Marelle)
Rencontres, démos, échanges, lectures, projections. Avec : Catherine Malabou, philosophe ; Peter Szendy, philosophe et musicologue ; Véronique Aubouy, artiste et réalisatrice ; Christophe Bruno, artiste ; Stéphanie Parmentier, enseignante, docteure en lettres modernes ; Pascal Jourdana, éditeur ; Fabien Zocco, artiste ; Juliette Mezenc, autrice ; Anne Savelli, écrivain ; Cécile Portier, écrivain ; Colette Tron, autrice et critique ; Jean-Michel Bruyère, artiste; Annie Abrahams, artiste et performeuse
Gratuit sur inscription à alphabetville@orange.fr

* Lire un site web?
Being Human . een bloemlezing . an anthology, le livre est un dérivé du site web Being Human. Ce site web, créé entre 1997 et 2007, est un univers linguistique, où se mêlent différentes voix, langues, poèmes, codes et variables dans un ensemble labyrinthique. Aujourd’hui l’Internet a changé et le site ne peut plus être vécu de la même manière que quand il a été créé.
Quand LI-MA Amsterdam demande à Abrahams comment elle voudrait le présenter en 2023 dans l’exposition REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art, au Nieuwe Instituut à Rotterdam, elle décide de le capturer dans un recueil de poésie.
Le livre est multilingue, contient 44 poèmes, un Fore Words / Voor Woorden d’Erika Fülöp et Ad Verbs / Bij Woorden de Abrahams elle-même. La conception graphique est d’Alexandre Leray.
ISBN : 978909037631, 160 pages, A5, couverture rigide.

Filed under: book, Conference / lecture, Net art, Poetry, Alphabetville, art, Being Human, news, Poetry, sports, technology

Reading a website?

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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.

Filed under: book, e-literature, Event, Net art, Performance, Poetry, Digital Care, LAB111, LI-MA

Pixel Poetry

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

Filed under: e-literature, Exhibition, Net art, Poetry, al(l)one, future, pwem, UpstreamGallery

Being Human . een bloemlezing . an anthology – a book.

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.

Jan. 17th 2024 performative reading Reading a website? .

With thanks to: LI-MA, Amsterdam; the Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam and the Jaap Harten Fonds, Den Haag.

Filed under: book, e-literature, Event, Exhibition, Languages, Net art, Poetry, preservation, publication, Being Human, LIMA, multilingual, new institute, REBOOT

Being Human in REBOOT

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.

Annie Abrahams, Being Human, 2007. https://www.bram.org/indexlake.html

Being Human will be presented as:
A projection of BramTV, 2005 (online version)
Three screens with BramTV special Collection 1, 2 and 3, 2006 (offline stand alone version)
And a poetry book: Being Human . een bloemlezing . an anthology, 2023.

9 nov 23 artikel NRC

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.

Filed under: e-literature, Exhibition, Net art, Being Human, LI-MA, Nieuwe Instituut, REBOOT

“ffaille” and “con flicting”

“ffaille” and “con flicting”, two multilingual animated poems, originally made for #elo2023 and their “issues” exhibition, adapted.

https://bram.org/pwem/issues

Filed under: e-literature, Net art, Poetry, #elo2023, animated poetry, poésie animé

Net Art: A Problematic Introduction

A beginner’s guide to net art specta(c)torship.
In English and Romanian.
34 lessons, 6 hours of video content

By Mihai Băcăran in collaboration with contemporary artist and musician Darie Nemeș Bota.

Open access online course on Net Art. An experiment in independent online teaching. For full access to course material sign up for free at: https://spectactor.thinkific.com/courses/net-art

Net Art: A Problematic Introduction offers a beginner’s guide for specta(c)torship in net art. It aims to provide intellectually challenging content that encourages students to problematize received narratives regarding art and its relation with larger social, political, environmental and cultural issues. For newcomers to the fields of art history and art theory the course provides, in the context of net art, a basic overview of foundational questions such as: What is art? Is art political? Is the materiality of the art work significant? etc. For those already familiar with these basic theoretical debates, the course further complicates them by addressing the particularities of net art practices and processes of specta(c)torship, and by providing a large number of relevant examples for consideration. By engaging with relevant art works, Net Art: A Problematic Introduction aims at addressing social, political, environmental and cultural questions pertinent to the contemporary condition, as they emerge through the lens of net art.

Mihai included my poem Apparatus_is {Other-s}, as an example of electronic literature in chapter 3 on the diversity of net art practices.

With works by Alexei Shulgin / Martine Neddam / Olia Lialina / JODI / Shu Lea Cheang / Natalie Bookchin / Ubermorgen / MTAA / Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz / Eduardo Kac / Mendi and Keith Obadike / Zahra Malkani / Nkhensani Mkhari / Sheida Soleimani / Annie Abrahams and Emmanuel Guez / Young-Hae Chang / Eric Thiele / Kim Asendorf / I/O/D / Mark Napier / Jonas Lund / Rafael Rozendaal / Interspecifics Collective / Amalia Ulman / Electronic Disturbance Theatre / etoy / The Yes Men / Olivia Jack / Alex McLean and Felix Roos / Cory Arcangel / Open AI / YoHa / DFAP / Ryan Maguire / Heath Bunting

Filed under: Net art, Poetry, Research, Video, free course, Mihai Băcăran, ReadingClub

gender update

From 1999 people could deposit a wish on bram.org’s Being Human website.
Two days ago Monika Szűcsová (Curator and researcher, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Brno) and I presented the website at the Transformation Digital Art 2023 International symposium on the preservation of digital art at LI-MA, Amsterdam.

In the piece I asked for gender, which in 1999 consisted of female and male. If someone didn’t choose an option out of these two there was an error message and they couldn’t participate.*

It was kind of a shock. How could I have been excluding people not identifying with a binary gender? How could I have been so incredibly wrong?

Yesterday I updated the page and included non-binary.** I feel kind of relieved, but am now “haunted” by the idea of having elsewhere clear stupidities on the bram.org website (2560 items to check).

* At the time I wanted this, because I considered my online collections (for instance also on solitude, violence, fear) as representations of the voices of a multitude that might be studied at a later point.

** Of course there is more in “gender”: transgender, gender neutral, agender, pangender, genderqueer, two-spirit, third gender, and all, none or a combination of these.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/types-of-gender-identity#types-of-gender-identity. (Thanks Monika for the link.)

Filed under: Net art, preservation, gender, inclusion, Monika Szűcsová, multitude, update, wishes

Caring for Digital Art.

Transformation Digital Art 2023 International symposium on the preservation of digital art, 16 & 17 March 2023 at LI-MA, Amsterdam.

Transformation Digital Art 2023 aims to show and discuss existing and new strategies for the documentation, transmission, and preservation of digital art for and by artists, curators and conservators.

Day 2: Caring for Digital Art
14 – 15:30. The workshop Netart Analysing highlights some key, specific questions that can arise when considering the preservation of computer generated and net art works.
Two artworks, Compressed Forests by Jan Robert Leegte and Being Human by Annie Abrahams will be presented and discussed.
Moderation by Monika Szűcsová (Curator and researcher, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Brno) and Joost Dofferhoff (Registrar & Assistant documentation & preservation, LI-MA).  

Tickets for the symposium are available here.

LIMA, Arie Biemondstraat 111, 1054 PD Amsterdam.

Filed under: Conference / lecture, Net art, Workshop, Being Human, LIMA, Monika Szűcsová, preservation

13000 etc. kisses

a kiss, deux imprimées sur aluminium, Poésie Numérique Internationale, curation Jacques Donguy, Galerie Satellite, 7 rue François de Neufchâteau, Paris.

14 janvier – 11 février 2023

Vernissage le samedi 14 janvier à partir de 18h.

Depuis 1998 l’ordinateur donne des bises à un.e internaut.e qui en demande sur la page https://www.bram.org/beinghuman/jeveux.htm. Aujourd’hui le nombre des bises données est de 13167. Ces bises codées en javascript vont dans le sens d’une célébration de la transgression des frontières entre l’homme et la machine à la Donna-Haraway, selon les termes de Lori Emmerson. Et je cite la suite :

“Le monde qui nous est montré à l’écran n’est pas une représentation de ce qu’est “l’être humain” – c’est plutôt une représentation humaine d’une représentation informatique de l’être humain. En d’autres termes, la mesure dans laquelle la réalité et les représentations de la réalité se touchent est la mesure dans laquelle l’humain et la machine deviennent des cyborgs.”
“It’s Not That, It’s Not That, It’s Not That”, Lori Emerson, “E-Poetry” April 23-26, 2003, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Filed under: Exhibition, Net art, 1998, computer kiss, Galerie Satellite, Lori Emerson