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

Digital Care: Performing the(Feminist) Internet

Design by Nicole Martens. Featuring Joana Chicau (photo by John Rohrer) and Janilda Bartolomeu.

Digital Care: Performing the (Feminist) Internet
A dialogue between early net art and contemporary practices
Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
LI-MA, LAB111 (LAB1), Arie Biemondstraat 111, 1054 PD Amsterdam
Doors 19.15 // Program begins 19.30
Entry: €7.50 (regular) / €5,- (student)

The evening centers around a dialogue between early net art and contemporary practices, with Annie Abrahams, Debra Solomon, Janilda Bartolomeu and Joana Chicau.

What does it mean to be human in a technological society? And how does our communication change depending on the digital infrastructure we use to talk to each other?

Together with Debra Solomon, Annie Abrahams, Joana Chicau and Janilda Bartolomeu, we will explore the technological landscape of the past, and the questions raised back then. We also look ahead to explore how those works are experienced several decades later, and how artists of today keep on working in this lineage. How do we communicate, dance, live and die online? 

I will read from my book Being Human . an anthology, now also available online through NAi booksellers. The book will stay on display in the exhibition REBOOT at the New Institute in Rotterdam until May 12.

Filed under: book, Conference / lecture, Event, Being Human, LAB111, LI-MA, Poetry, reading

Utterings – colliding interferences + tone again

individual sound recordings – silences edited out: 4 different durations, 4 different patterns, 4 different styles, 4 different microphones, 1 processing algorithm

we are rebels escaping capture … are we?

The Zoom Ai compagnon in their recap of our last session Tone Again mentions a series of unclear statements, interjections, and exclamations. To read the whole report as a pdf visit Tone Again.

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Colliding Interferences
The strange power.s of the bodies in space.

Utterings performed on the 29th of June at 5PM during the symposium Cyberperformance: Artistic and Pedagogical Practices, Gambelas Campus, University of Algarve, Faro.
Duration 45 min.
Constança, Nerina and Curt online, Daniel and Annie in Faro.

Preparations, attunement, video extracts, reactions.

Filed under: Conference / lecture, networked performance, Performance, Research, AI, Ai compagnon, University of Algarve, utterings, zoom

Beyond Convention?

30/07, 10h30, Beyond Convention?
Keynote by Annie Abrahams
Symposium Cyberperformance: Artistic and Pedagogical Practices,
29 – 30 June, Gambelas Campus, University of Algarve.

Program. pdf
Announcement
.pdf of keynote Beyond Conventions

Abstract: My practice of online performance spans over more than 25 years. In my talk I will touch upon its transformation from being an artistic niche, via becoming prevalent in Covid times, to an accepted means of global communication and artistic expression. The abundant use of video conferencing now influences the way we communicate in our daily lives without us paying much attention to the changes. For me this feels as if we are adapting to the tools without researching their flaws and unique possibilities. I will indicate some of the specificities of online performance. In particular I’ll discuss its role in challenging widespread ideas about online collaboration and furthermore explain the function of protocols in my performance and research practice. Finally I will outline some qualities necessary for and possible affordances of future cyber-performance.

Filed under: Conference / lecture, networked performance, Of interest, Performance, cyberperformance, University of Algarve

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

Angry Women 2021

Angry Women 2021: two different 15 minute multilingual improvisational online performance on anger, with a Q&A at the end.

Friday June 25th 17h30 Info.
Performance with: Alice Lenay, Amaranta Osorio, Anja Borowicz, Christine Develotte, Colette Tron, Emmanuelle Gibello, Eugenia Cano, Jo Morrison, Karla Ptacek, Mansi Thapliyal, monica de ioanni, Sylvie Roques …

Saturday June 26 20h00 Info.
Performance with: Amaranta Osorio, Anja Borowicz, Emmanuelle Gibello, Mansi Thapliyal, Sarah Hart, Shelly Quick, Susie Lamb …

Angry Women is an artistic research project started in 2011:
*on remote communication and collaboration using anger as a pretext
*on female anger using webcam performances as a facilitator

The performance has been be prepared in a 90 min workshop a few days before. A “choir” full of individual voices and actions where there is room for solos, duos and silence, where group dynamics will be as important as the revelation of female anger and irritations. No rehearsals, but risks and trust and attention.

Bodies:On:Live – Magdalena:On:Line 2021,
the first Online Magdalena Festival, from 24 – 27 June 2021

Bodies:On:Live is affiliated with The Magdalena Project, a dynamic, intergenerational and cross-cultural network for women in contemporary theatre and performance. In 35+ years of activities, there have been over 100 Magdalena festivals and gatherings in more than 20 countries.

Angry Women #1 https://youtu.be/rxKUsb_fnEM
Angry Women #2 https://youtu.be/kgjDf1lf6yw

Filed under: Conference / lecture, networked performance, Performance, angry women, BodiesOnLive, MagdalenaOnline, TheMagdalenaProject

ELO 2021 Utterings

Utterings Performance: Supra Semiotics. 30 min.
May 25th 2021 20h Paris time.
Attunement: https://jaapblonk.bandcamp.com/album/antonin-artaud-by-jaap-blonk

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Utterings Panel: Toward a Supra-Semiotic Telepresent Communication.
May 26th 2021 14h30 Paris time.
Members of our group will collectively discuss what we have pragmatically learned and experienced in our performance research thus far. During the panel we make a writing pad available, where the audience can collectively read and write their thoughts on utterings as a communication form. Utterings will join and continue the discussion on the writing pad in the last part of the panel.

panel starts at 5 min.

Utterings is a networked performance and research group whose members gather online and, while blindfolded, engage in utterings as communication. We want to create an on the fly “new” language, that forwards attention, trust and feelings, above rationality. Put another way, we seek to develop a shared, experiential, supra-semiotic form of communication based on our ongoing performance history with each other. Michael Bakhtin’s concept of the “utterance event” as a node of intersection between lived, present-tense communication and atemporal, semiotic meaning has informed our research. Over the past year, we have enacted eight performances online “at” festivals “in” Nantes (France), Birmingham (UK), Linz (Austria), and London (UK).

Info and updates: https://utterings.hotglue.me/?elo

Utterings | Breathing. COVID E-lit exhibition. May 1st 2021 Opening.

ELO 2021 Conference and Festival: Platform (Post?) Pandemic
Workshops: 24-25 May, main conference 26-28 May 2021.

Filed under: Conference / lecture, e-literature, Exhibition, Performance, ELO, ELO 2021, utterings

Documenting Digital Art

On March 26, 17h30 – 18h00, we will present BEFORE THE FIRST, a brief glimpse of the diversity of online performance created before 2020, at the Transformation Digital Art 2021 symposium organised by LIMA, Amsterdam.

The Transformation Digital Art symposium is designed as an opportunity to share best practices concerning both artist-led and institutional strategies geared towards the future presentation of born-digital and software-based art. This year the focus of the symposium will be on Documenting Digital Art.

Programme of the symposium:
DAY 1: Wednesday, March 24, 17h30 – 21h30 CET
Workshop 1: Workshop Documentation Digital Art with HEK 18h00-19h30 CET
DAY 2: Thursday, March 25, 17h30 – 21h30 CET
Workshop 2: Workshop Documentation Digital Art with Centre Pompidou 18h00-19h30 CET
DAY 3: Friday, March 26, 17h00 – 19h30 CET
Workshop 3: Workshop Documentation Digital Art with SFMoma 18h00-19h30 CET
For the fully detailed programme visit bit.ly/LIMATDA2021
TICKETS bit.ly/ticketsTDA2021

March 26, 17h30 – 18h00: Discussion with Annie Abrahams (Artist) and Helen Varley Jamieson (artist)
Before the First is a response to the many claims of online “firsts” in 2020. Annie Abrahams, Helen Varley Jamieson and Suzon Fuks aim to draw attention to the long and rich history of online performance, which stretches back to the earliest days of the internet. For some of the artists in Before the first, the performance shown was not their very first online performance. Many early works were never documented, or for other reasons later works have been used. Before the First is a brief glimpse of the diversity of online performance created before 2020. The video is only a very tiny sample of this field of creative work; it is a snapshot and provocation to further exploration of the field, rather than an historical record.

You can watch the recording of our presentation on youtube.

Filed under: Conference / lecture, Beforethefirst, LIMA, Transformation Digital Art

(Un)Distance ELOrlando

An ELOrlando 2020: Virtual Edition Panel.
Friday July 17, 1pm EDT, 19h Paris time.

A videorecording of the event here.
Log file of the zoom chat here.

You can download the framapad as a .pdf – saved on July 17 21H Paris time.

undistance-framapad-annuelDownload

What does it mean to be together apart? How can we create and share ideas from an (un)distance?
In this experimental panel we will explore the topic “(un)distance” as a way to b(e/r)ing us together and to share ideas over various (di)stances and (di)scourses. We will center around  long-distance writing practices, and will self-reflexively discuss how effective on-line community discussion works.

You could have participated watching the video conference while at the same time joining in a collaborative reariting on a framapad.
If you click on the clock icon topright in the framapad you can see a cinamatographic image of the reawriting – a historique dynamique.

The framapad is a site for your thoughts and longer discussions, for questioning/commenting/digressing/feeding and disturbing the (un)distance elo panel before, during and after its effectuation.

two snapshots of the reariting in framapad

The panel will be moderated by Annie Abrahams and Anna Nacher on zoom, Deena Larsen and Johannah Rodgers in the framapad.
The panel participants are Eugenio Tisselli, Kirill Azernyy, Renee Carmichael, and Roderick Coover.

Filed under: Conference / lecture, e-literature, Research, Anna Nacher, Deena Larsen, ELOrlando, Eugenio Tisselli, Johannah Rodgers, Kirill Azernyy, panel, Renee Carmichael, Roderick Coover, undistancing

#PEAE published in ebr

It touches on my inability, unwillingness to categorize my work and where that leads.

Published: Abrahams, Annie. “#PEAE Participative Ethology in Artificial Environments”, Electronic Book Review, May 3, 2020.

Pondering on my relation to electronic literature / e-lit for the eloCork 2019 conference, where is was invited, I was surprised to discover how strong that was. My interest for text and translation has pervaded my all over, what? … networked practice …
I am happy that the article that resulted from the venture has been published in the Electronic book Review. (thanks elo-Cork and ebr) My only regret is that I didn’t mention my ongoing e-stranger – What language does to you or not. – project.

Filed under: Articles / Texts, Conference / lecture, e-literature, categorisation, e-lit, ebr, Electronic Book Review, peae