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

EICAS Nulweek Utterings

Projectie van Transmission een video van een Utterings performance voor het We’re All Bats Listening Arts Channel 4/12/2020, gevolgd door een workshop.

Locatie: Museum EICAS, Deventer.

Tijd: Vrijdag 24 maart om 14.00 uur

geannuleerd wegens ziekte / vindt plaats op een nader te communiceren tijdstip

Kosten: € 11,-  inclusief museumbezoek

Aanmelden via info@eicas.nl onder vermelding van datum en Annie Abrahams.
Max. 6 deelnemers, dus wie het eerst komt die het eerst maalt.

Meer informatie.

In de workshop werken we toe naar een 10 minuten durende Utterings ervaring waarbij we, bij uitzondering, geen gebruik maken van het internet en machines. Ik ben heel benieuwd of, en hoe dat anders zal zijn.

Utterings is een online performance- en onderzoeksgroep, een online “band” bestaande uit Annie Abrahams (NL), Daniel Pinheiro (PT), Constança Carvalho Homem (PT), Curt Cloninger (US) en Nerina Cocchi (BE).
Wij zijn vijf kunstenaars met zeer verschillende achtergronden, die elkaar online ontmoeten om zich, geblindoekt, voortbouwend op solo’s, duo’s, koralen en stilte, te verdiepen in “utterings” als communicatiemiddel. Deze communicatie wordt niet gedreven door efficiëntie, niet geregeerd door code of abstracte conventies; maar ontwikkeld zich via affect, aandacht, haperingen, vertragingen en zelfs leegtes.
We gebruiken klanktaal om een actieve, verweven communicatieve structuur te creëren waarin zowel mensen als machines betrokken zijn in een proces van gedeelde auditieve uitwisseling en aandacht. Bemiddeld door machines, kabels en compressiealgoritmen, is onze geluidsperformance verankerd in het lichaam.

Filed under: Exhibition, Performance, Video, Workshop, EICAS, Transmission, utterings

Online Affects – DF #9

17.6 – 16.7.2022, Distant Feeling(s) #9
Online Affects, Video Essay Gallery, Exhibition 2, Filmexplorer, CH.
Curation: Chloé Galibert-Laîné. In her curational text she wonders – does watching this video actually require closing one’s eyes while it plays?

Are affects more than just the expression of pure subjectivity? What happens when we do not know how to watch? What do watching experimental films and watching video essays have in common? How should we understand the performance of watching?

These and other questions punctuate the podcast discussion of Online Affects between the three curators: Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto.
Listen to it if you are interested in understanding states of spectatorship.

Filmexplorer focuses on movies as sources of experience, and not as commodities to be consumed.

Filed under: Exhibition, Performance, Video, Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Distant Feeling(s), Filmexplorer

Van Gogh TV – Distant Feelings

12/11 – 05/12 2021, Van Gogh TV, Piazza Virtuale*, exhibition** at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin and online.

For the first time now, Künstlerhaus Bethanien is presenting the material remaining from that large-scale art project in an exhibition. Original works, video recordings, sketches, plans, photos, and other historical material will be on view, alongside technical relics of “Piazza virtuale”.

Other works by Mieko Shiomi, Miranda July, Fred Forest, Yann van der Cruyssen and Annie Abrahams/Daniel Pinheiro will also be shown in the exhibition in order to contextualize the work of Van Gogh TV.

Distant Feeling(s) – Van Gogh TV installed in the exhibition.

* Piazza Virtuale by the artists’ group Van Gogh TV was not only the biggest art project ever to have been on TV – from a contemporary perspective, the project was also a precursor to present-day social media. The ground-breaking television event, which took place during documenta IX in 1992, was a TV experiment in which users could create media content themselves.

** By Karel Dudesek / Benjamin Heidersberger / Mike Hentz / Salvatore Vanasco and team. Curator: Tilman Baumgärtel

Filed under: Exhibition, Net art, Performance, Video, Distant Feeling(s), Kunstlerhaus Bethaniên, piazza virtuale, Van Gogh TV

Stof / Poussière / Dust

“stof” Nederlands with translation

Suzon Fuks made a video for “stof” the text I wrote for her “BE LIKE BODY—OBSOLETE #4” project. She asked 6 artists writers to responded to the questions:
How do we advance technology without giving up our sense of humanity?
What does it mean to become / be obsolete?

I am very happy to contribute to this beautiful interesting project with 5 other writers from very different cultural backgrounds and languages: Amaranta Osorio, Nasim Khosravi, Parvathy Baul, Ya-Ling Peng and Younghee Park. Their videos can be found here https://vimeo.com/suzon

For this project Suzon does a performance and made an e-book and audio track. The performance will happen on Sunday 27 June 2021, and will be followed by the artist talk with all six writers.
You have to book for the performance and talk onlinefestival.themagdalenaproject.org/be-like-body-obsolete-1
and onlinefestival.themagdalenaproject.org/6-writers

“Pousièrre” en français with translation

In March 2022 REALTIME, the Australian magazine on Australian and international exploratory performance and media arts published a very good areticle on Suzon’s performance.

Filed under: Articles / Texts, Event, Video, BE LIKE BODY—OBSOLETE, Suzon Fuks

Before The First online performance

In 2020, many people encountered online performance for the first time.
We asked some of our peers “When was your first online performance?”
BEFORE THE FIRST is a brief glimpse of the diversity of online performance created before 2020.
Compiled by Annie Abrahams, Helen Varley Jamieson and Suzon Fuks. Edited by Suzon Fuks.

With thanks to:
Gwendoline Samidoust, Lucie Desaubliaux, Muriel Piqué, Soyung Lee, Lily Robert-Foley, Gilson Moraes Motta, Atefeh Khas, Elaine Vaan Hogue, Alejandra Ceriani, Ximena Alarcon, Daniel Pinheiro, Emma Che Raethke-Martin, Christina Papagiannouli, Martina Ruhsam, Rosa Sanchez, Caroline Delieutraz, Jorge Rojas, Rebekah Wild, Miljana Perić, Alan Sondheim, Patrick Lichty, Roger Mills, James Cunningham, Johannes Birringer, Joseph DeLappe, Keith Armstrong, Karla Ptáček, Auriea Harvey, Jean-Marc Matos, John Hopkins, Nina Sobell, Antoinette LaFarge, Adriene Jenik and Paul Sermon.

We also made a pdf with more info on the works in the video

Download

DISCLAIMER

Filed under: networked performance, Performance, Video, Beforethefirst, Helen Varley Jamieson, Suzon Fuks

Video essay – Why is the use of videoconferencing so exhausting? – in JER

Why is the use of videoconferencing so exhausting? An analysis on the demands.
Video essay by ANNIE ABRAHAMS and DANIEL PINHEIRO.

Abrahams, A., Pinheiro, D., Carrasco, M., Zea, D., La Porta, T., de Manuel, A., … Varin, M. (2020). Embodiment and Social Distancing: Projects. Journal of Embodied Research, 3(2), 4 (27:52). DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/jer.67

Video footage from Distant Feeling(s)

Traduction en français :
Pourquoi l’utilisation de la visioconférence est-elle si épuisante? Une analyse.
l’intimité est gênante
l’intimité est gênante
AUCUN APERÇU AUCUN APERÇU AUCUN
APERÇU AUCUN APERÇU AUCUN APERÇU
AUCUN APERÇU AUCUN APERÇU
PAS DE VUE D’ENSEMBLE
vous devez scanner l’écran en continu
interruption(s)
impossible de détecter des détails subtils
pas de détail
l’imagination remplace les signes secondaires de la communication et ceux-ci doivent être traités sur leur utilité
nous sommes enclins à vérifier notre propre image tout le temps comme si nous avions besoin d’une assurance continue que la connexion existe toujours
tout le son est mélangé dans un environnement sonore mono,
cela conduit à une compression de l’espace partagé,
nous devons deviner d’où vient le son
distraction(s)
toi, je et moi
une situation triangulaire dans laquelle nous nous sentons et nous regardons nous-mêmes et les autres …
c’est psychologiquement exigeant: notre cerveau doit traiter le soi comme corps et comme image
interruption(s)
vous ne voyez les visages de près que lorsque vous êtes bébé dans un berceau ou avec un amoureux au lit
vous ne voyez les visages de près que lorsque vous êtes bébé dans un berceau ou avec un amoureux au lit
il y a du délai
nous ne sommes jamais exactement dans le même temps / espace
Tout cela contribue à un épuisement.
Nous essayons de dépasser les limites des environnements artificiels sans prendre en compte ses spécificités.
Que se passe-t-il si nous supprimons les sens que nous utilisons le plus pour communiquer?
Et si nous fermons les yeux et ne parlons pas.
Qu’est-ce qui reste?

Svp si vous utilisez ce texte citez l’original :
Abrahams, A., Pinheiro, D., Carrasco, M., Zea, D., La Porta, T., de Manuel, A., … Varin, M. (2020). Embodiment and Social Distancing: Projects. Journal of Embodied Research, 3(2), 4 (27:52). DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/jer.67

Filed under: Articles / Texts, Performance, research, Video, Daniel Pinheiro, Distant Feelings, JER, Journal of Embodied Research, video essay, zoom fatigue

The Big Kiss au festival accès)s( #20

09/10-12/12 The Big Kiss dans Melting Point*, expo Bel Ordinaire, Pau.
Curation Jean-Jacques Gay.

Et aussi: 09/10-08/11 Méthodologie / Protocole de travail, Constallations, Collectif 3G, Melting Point* la suite , expo, Médiathèque A. Labarrère, Pau.

Filed under: Exhibition, Performance, Video, accès)s(, Constallations, The Big Kiss

slaap – The Artificial

Video from 2005 in the-artificial.org – a free zone for real people.

The-artificial.org is a project of
UnnoticedArt.com, 222lodge & Frans van Lent.

Filed under: Video, sleeping, the artificial

ZeTMaG 5.1 Trash / Crash

ConstallationsOuverture et Fleur/Flower ( avec Pascale Barret et Alix Desaubliaux ) sont publiés dans ZeTMaG 5.1 * – A gouter jusqu’à fin juin.
Merci à Nicolas Vermeulin.

* ZeTMaG, Temporary Zones of Expression, est un “organisme” artistique collectif, ouvert et non-commercial, dédié à la création expérimentale. Il fonctionne par thème et pendant une durée spécifique ou aléatoire.
ZeTMaG, un espace ouvert aux expérimentations et aux réactions, une zone temporaire, en transit, en mouvement qui évolue dans le temps, va s’épandre, se condenser, disparaître et renaître.

Vous pourrez y trouver aussi les propositions de Milène Tournier, Gracia Bejjani, Olivier Labbé, Camille Bloomfield, Claude Favre, Mónika Takács, Dominique Cerf, J.R Carpenter, Nicolas Vermeulin, SR, …

Filed under: Edition, Video, Constallations, ZeTMaG