Ursula Endlicher

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IN PROGRESS - fall 2013
>Far-Flung follows function<< turns a theatrical space into a networked application
played by commedia dell'arte characters and Internet data.

IN PROGRESS - summer 2013
Contemplative, playful, and slightly absurd, >>HTML Instrument<<
invites the audience to pluck a virtual wooden string instrument,
which changes shape for different HTML tags that appear
in the source code of a Website...

RECENTLY and NEW: VIDEOS Now Online!
VIDEOS FROM LIGHTNING TALKS ARE ONLINE!
Videos of the "Leaders in Software and Art Conference"
@ Guggenheim Museum Oct 16, 2012.
Check out my contribution...!

RECENTLY and NEW: NEW PHOTOS on flickr
>>LISA (Leaders in Software and Art) Conference<< @ Guggenheim Museum, NYC.
--brought together artists, curators, developers, researchers, collectors,
practicing at the intersection of art and technology.
October 16, 2012.

RECENTLY - FOR A FANTASTIC YEAR +....
...>>Light and Dark Networks<< - two online data performances on Whitney.org -
took over the entire Museum's website at sunrise and sunset.
Light and Dark Networks was commissioned by The Whitney Museum of American Art
as part of the Internet art series "Sunset and Sunrise" curated by Christiane Paul.
>> More details on the project go here: lightdarknetworks.ursenal.net.
Official launch: January 27, 2012 - March 5, 2013

RECENTLY and ONGOING
>>Projet Octopus / pour une exposition en ligne / towards an online exhibition<<
A exhibition/project by M. Aktypi et N. Frespech, part of the Symposium "Forms and
processes in art practices within digital culture",
at Centre Rabelais in Montpellier, France.
Symposium: 26 & 27 November, 2012.
The exhibition will stay online.

RECENTLY: 12/12/12
Online performance participation in >>Angry<< by Annie Abrahams
during 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance.
More info on the project/history of "Angry."
12/12/12 at 7PM Paris time / 1PM East Coast/New York time
and 12/13/12 7AM New Zealand time.

RECENTLY:
>>Facebook Re-enactments<< @ Momentum Worldwide, Berlin
Streaming Museum is curating five video programs for
Momentum Worldwide, including
>>Artistic License in Silicon Valley<<
(concurrently shown at ZERO1 Biennial.)

Momentum Worldwide
Gallery Location:
Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2
Berlin, Germany
Until December 2, 2012

RECENTLY:
>>Facebook Re-enactments<< @ ZERO1 Biennial, San Jose, CA.
Streaming Museum is curating a group exhibition called
>>Artistic License in Silicon Valley<< for ZERO1 Urban Screen,
presenting "unique perceptions of technology in global digital culture."
I am participating with "Facebook Re-enactments", where I am impersonating
people who share the same name on Facebook...
The screening premiered on September 14, 2012, at 9:30PM.
Upcoming shows: Exact schedule TBA on ZERO1's website.
The exhibit will run till December 8, 2012.

RECENTLY
Online performance participation in >>Huis Clos / No exit<< by Annie Abrahams
@ Edinburgh College of Art during Remediating the Social - ELMCIP conference.
with Igor Stromajer, Nicolas Frespech, Ruth Catlow and Ursula Endlicher.
More info about Huis Clos/Annie Abrahams.
Oct 25, Nov 1, 2 and 3, 2012

RECENTLY:
>>interACTicons<< @ paraflows.7 Festival for Digital Art and Culture
in Vienna, Austria @ "Das Weisse Haus".
The festival's theme this year was "reverse engineering" -
"interACTions" invites the audience to re-enact social media terminology
and to be part of an going data-performance!
The show opened September 13, 2012,
and ran. until October 20, 2012

RECENTLY
>>LOW LIVES: ISEA2012<<
A selection of videos from the Low Lives networked performance series
were screened during ISEA2012. The program included performance videos
from 30 international artists as they were streamed live.
My contribution: >> The Old Internet Slide Show...<<
LOW LIVES @ ISEA2012: Machine Wilderness
Saturday, September 22, 8:30am-5:30 pm
National Hispanic Cultural Center- 1701 4th St. SW, Albuquerque, New Mexico

RECENTLY:
Summer Group Show Permanent Collection opened Thursday, July 12
at Nancy Margolis Gallery in Chelsea. Artists were invited to reflect on works from
the MoMA collection. I re-staged Bruce Nauman's "Art Make-Up: No.1 White, No.2 Pink,
No.3 Green, No.4 Black". My "digital make-up" deteriorates continuously...
The show was up and running til August 4, 2012.

RECENTLY:
>>Remote Schmink-a-thon<< at Woodstock Digital Media Festival, Vermont.
Remote Schmink-a-thon (Weather Data Make-Up Marathon) is a live networked
and streaming video performance taking place in the woods around Woodstock, VT,
on Saturday, June 23, in the afternoon.
The audience can watch from afar a wood creature's make-up session which is changing
based on current weather data reports. For a close-up the spectators can access
the creature's hand mirror via their cell phones.
The installation version can be viewed at Artistree Gallery during the group show
"Micro", which opens Friday, June 22 at 8:30PM, and will run until July 7, 2012.
Woodstock Digital Media Festival
Woodstock, VT on June 22 & 23, 2012

RECENTLY:
>>The Old Internet Slide Show<<- Online performance during the
Low Lives 4 - Networked Performance Festival on April 28, 2012 at 5:07 PM EST.
The Old Internet will reminisce on its infancy and youth and recite statements
from the early net days. Each declaimed quote follows a ride down an infant's slide.
To be efficient and deliver as many statements/packets as possible in 5 minutes
the Old Internet gets quite a work-out...
Links: Low Lives Festival and The Old Internet Performance Series
April 27-28, 2012

NEW PUBLICATION:
My work interACTicons is included in >>Emergency INDEX<<,
a "new yearly edition documenting performance in the words of its creators."
March 20 at 7PM: Presentation at The Kitchen, which will
show movies of some of the performances from the book (including a
short docu about interACTicons) as well as several live performances.
March 20, 2012

NEW REVIEW:
Rhizome Editorial: >>The Whitney Artport<< - elaborates on Light and Dark Networks,
my new commission for the Artport as part of Sunset/Sunrise... and other Artport news
such as Scott Snibbe's new iPhone app "Tripolar". Read on...
February 7, 2012

October 28, 2011
Participation in Annie Abraham's "Angry Women" video/online performance at
the show "Training for a better world", CRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Sete, France.

August 2011
Throughout the month of August >>interACTicons, remixed<<
was shown at the LISA (Leaders in Software and Art) screening series
@ Big Screen Plaza in midtown, New York.
The screening also included works by Mark Napier, Dennis H. Miller, and Matt Pearson.
>>interACTicons, remixed<< is a social-media terminology re-enactment using online
video clips collected earlier this year during the transmediale.11 festival in Berlin, Germany,
for the interACTicons project.
More info on interACTicons, remixed here.
More info on the interACTicons project, here.

July 14, 2011
An article about >>Facebook Re-enactments<<
on Arts|Blog.it, written by penelope.di.pixel. (italian)
July 14, 2011

June 23-26, 2011
>>The Old Internet... ...is the Electronic Man<<
The Old Internet celebrates Marshall McLuhan's centennial by connecting to
Salvatore Iaconese and Oriana Persico's "The Electronic Man" Project
via its digital tongue... @ ADD Festival, MACRO Museum, Rome, June 23-26 2011.

March 31, 2011
>>Free Culture Incubator Workshop No 5:
Get your message across - platforms, tools and strategies to reach your audience.<<
Online Live Stream Interview conducted by Ela Kagel on Thursday March 31, 2011.
transmediale Beyond.

February 1 - March 23, 2011
>>The Simulationists: Mixed Reality Performance<<
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
I exhibited and performed a new project called
>>Website Annotations/Impersonations: SAIC.edu<<,
part installation part performance, each influencing the other's appearance
while collecting audience submission - via twitter.
The event was curated by Claudia Hart, Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey.
The exhibitions ran from February 1 - March 23, 2011.
Reception, Symposium and Performance: Friday, February 18, 2011.
SAIC Betty Rymer Gallery and SAIC 012 Performance Space,
280 S. Columbus Dr., Chicago, Il.

February 16, 2011
Video Interview of several artists who were participating in transmediale.11:
FACEBOOK UND DIE TRANSMEDIALE - DEIN GESICHT GEHÖRT UNS (eng/de)
includes statements reg. the use of FB, and some info reg. interACTicons.
conducted during the tm festival in Berlin by Wiebke Pöpel for 2010LAB.tv.

February 9, 2011
Video Interview on interACTicons @ transmediale on
>>A New Days' Work, Electronic Art of the 21st Century,
Delivered Daily<< conducted during the tm festival in Berlin by Zack McCune.

February 3, 2011
Video Docu: >>ARTE Creative - your network for
contemporary culture :: transmediale.tv :: Day 2 of transmediale.11<<
with Impressions and fragments of interACTicons...

February 1 - 6, 2011
>>transmediale.11 festival<<
@ Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
I presented a new project called >>interACTicons<< which is reflecting on and enacting
our activities on social networking sites.
The project includes an online archive collecting audience ideas, a walk-in workshop and
installation, and a performance of the 40 most used social networking sites,
embodied by two dancers, Andrea Jane Dispenziere and Regina Sobel.
The festival ran from February 1-6, 2011, with the performance on Feb. 6 at 7:30PM.

November 11, 2010 - January 6, 2011
>>the future is not what it used to be<<
at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle., Warsaw, Poland.
A group show bringing together artists engaged in the Internet shaped culture,
curated by Magdalena Sawon.
There is a catalog - NEW: plus an online version of it - accompanying the exhibtiion.

August 12, 2010
Artist Talk @ >>LISA (Leaders In Software in Art) salon<< at
The Project Room For New Media at The Chelsea Art Museum.
Other presenters that evening were Jack Toolin, Daniel Beunza, and Scott Draves.

July 10 - 31, 2010 -- web showcase ongoing
>>Shadow & Light<< @ Kulturmöllan in Lövestad, South Sweden.
This exhibition was curated by Marek Walczak, Lars Eklöw, Johanna Kindvall & Anna-Maria
Eklöw and was featuring works on the theme of shadows and light.
I have been showing a new web-driven installation called >>Partly Cloudy Structures<<
featuring a spider-like creature who takes on residency in the mill and online;
her movements and actions are influenced by the local real-time weather data...
The exhibition ran from July 10 - 31. The web version of Partly Cloudy Structures stays online.

June 11 - 28, 2010 -- web showcase ongoing
>>Made In Internet<< @ ArtBoom Festival in Krakow, Poland and online.
In this showcase, which was curated by Marcin Ramocki and featured
24 international web-based artists, I was showing a piece called
>>3 min html-movements"<<, a video enactment of the Artboom Festival website's
source code - used as choreography for HTML inspired short dance and performance clips.
The festival ran from June 11 til June 28.
The web showcase remains online.

March 5 to June 11, 2010.
>>Hair Tactics<< @ Jersey City Museum
On view was a new Website Wig built upon braiding the hyper-link structure
of www.jerseycitymuseum.org - the museum's website - into color-coded and
knotted hair.

May 29, 2010
Participation in Annie Abraham's: >>Huis Clos : No Exit - On Translation<<
@ Netherland Media Art Institute in Amsterdam.
A telematic performance with 6 performers.

May 6, 2010
>>"Follow The Old Internet's Plan<<
Performance at Chashama Harlem Studios Gallery
461 West 126th Street, NYC

>>Watch a slide show of the performance on Flickr.
The Old Internet performed May 6th's stock quote percentage of the "backbone's"
- original and often bought out or merged - companies such as LVLT, ATT, or AOL...
The performance took place within the exhibition "Stitched Topographies"
by Christine Gedeon.

April 18, 2010
Mirror, Mirror review >>A Portrait of a Portrait of a Portrait<<
by Michelle Levy, ARTslanT, April 18, 2010

April 2 - May 8, 2010
>>Mirror, Mirror<< @ Postmasters Gallery,
a group exhibition of nine artists engaged with contemporary portraiture in all media.
I showed the video installation Facebook Re-enactments - video reenactments
of people on Facebook who share the same name...

March 22, 2010
>>THEATER 2.0...<< A Video-Interview with 2010LAB.tv
I am talking about the crossover of Internet, Performance and Installation
in my work...IN GERMAN.
2010Lab.tv is part of "Ruhr.2010 - Kulturhauptstadt Europas".

December 17 - 19, 2009
>>Website Impersonations: The Next Generation<<
@ SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 in Yokohama, Japan.
Joined by one dancer - Yuka Takahashi - I invited the audience to take part
to perform and "deconstruct" HTML of three Websites: yahoo.co.jp,
fc2.com, and google.jp. The performances took place within
the Web-driven installation. Click here for the Art Gallery Preview Video.

November 13, 2009
>>Facebook User Labor Enactments<<
@ "The Internet as Playground and Factory"
a conference on digital labor at the New School.
For this performance I have been working with five performers and
also invited the audience to take part. This time I used an XML-based
language called ULML (=User Labor Mark-Up Language),
developed by Burak Arikan, as choreography.

November 2009
>>Space and Cyberspace: URSULA ENDLICHER'S Internet in the Round<<
Review by Mary Love Hodges, The Brooklyn Rail, November 2009

September 9 - October 31, 2009
>>Levels of Undo - Virtual Residency Project<<
@ Location One/New York.
I showed new works reflecting on: the peculiar
exchanges with my virtual residency mate(s), the long
and winding road of working online for one and
a half decades, and my deep and mysterious
experiences with facebook...

One of my new works on view:
Facebook Re-enactments

October 3, 2009
>>Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #2 - www.google.com.<<
@ Center for Performance Research
With google.com my ten-part cycle of "Website Impersonations:
The Ten Most Visited" is done.
This live performance series, which utilizes Web Code
as choreography, includes dancers, performers,
and the audience - right on stage.

September 29, 2009
Vera List Center for Arts and Politics
>>Changing Labor Value<<
PANEL DISCUSSION & ART INSTALLATION
@ The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor, New York City
Panel: 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Installation: 5:30 to 9:00 p.m.
My facebook performance from the Website Impersonations series is included
in the Web-based project installation of the event.

May 15 - August 15, 2009
>>Three-months Virtual Residency<<
Theme:Levels of Undo @ Location One/www.location1.org
Follow the blog discussion here.

June 6, 2009
>>Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #3
- www.live.com<<
studios on view, New York

March 17, 2009
>>Upgrade! Boston<<
7:00 pm @ Studio for Interrelated Media
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
621 Huntington Avenue, Boston

March 13, 2009
>>Great Dance Blog:<<
Creating Dance from Wikipedia's HTML Tags
Review/Blog Post about Website Impersontation #6
by Doug Fox.

March 3, 2009
>>Theater of Code<<
Curated by Christiane Paul
I showed a new part of the Website Impersonations:
The Ten Most Visited series. This time: #8 - facebook.com.
This event at Light Industry also included performances
and interventions by MTAA and Adrianne Wortzel.

December 11, 2008
>>Website Impersonations:
The Ten Most Visited #6 -
www.wikipedia.org <<
A new part of this live/Web performance
series @ LABfactory
In cooperation with AIKO.

September 15, 2008
>>VagueTerrain.org<<
"Dialogues-Translations-Performances"
In dialog with Ela Kagel
Part of Curediting by
VagueTerrain and CONTEXT.NET

August 1, 2008
>> Interface Cultures -
Artistic Aspects of Interaction<<
by CHRISTA SOMMERER, LAURENT
MINGONNEAU, and DOROTHEE KING (eds.)
"Mulitple Media Works" --
Essay about my Internet-based and
interactive works.

August 2008
>>ursula blickle video archiv at
kunsthalle wien<<
Inclusion of my Works into Archiv

May 29, 2008 - 8PM
>>LABfactory<<
"Code/Choreography"
Lecture and Sneak Peek into Rehearsal
for upcoming Website Impersonation
Performance with Aiko (photo) at LABfactory
in Vienna in December '08.

May 19-24, 2008
>>Theater am Neumarkt<<
"tabootheater 2.0"
A theater/Internet project by Ursula
Endlicher, Ela Kagel, and Anke Zimmermann.
Blog, Workshop with invited artists in theater
space and online, and performance @
Theater am Neumarkt, Zürich, Switzerland

May 22, 2008
>>Der Standard<<
"Haarige Verknüpfungen"
Review of Exhibit at Galerie Dana Charkasi, Vienna

May 7 - June 21, 2008
>>Gallery Dana Charkasi<<
"Website Portrait Performacnes + Website Wigs"
Solo Show, Two multiple-media installations.
(Image: Detail from Website Portrait Performances -
www.whitehouse.gov. Opening May 7, 6-8PM

May 1, 2008
>>Multiplace 2008 / network culture festival<<
"Choreography of the html code"
Presentation and Discussion. Viera Levitt, moderator,
(SK/US) in conversation with Ursula Endlicher (A/US) at
FreeDom, SK_Bahon (near Bratislava)