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RECENTLY: SHOWS AND EVENTS SPRING 2008 IN EUROPE:
Choreography of the html code
What: Presentation and Discussion
When: May 1, 2008
Where: FreeDom, SK_Bahon (near Bratislava)
How: MULTIPLACE 2008 / network culture festival
New media art in the USA + presentation of the project html_butoh - bringing the human body back to data world.
Independent curator Viera Levitt and artist Ursula Endlicher will discuss new media art in the USA and introduce Ursula's project html_butoh, that brings the human body back to the technical world of the Internet. In this piece, Endlicher replaces the html code with movement sequences from an online video clip archive, the html-movement-library, which is available for anyone wanted to participate. Visitors to the talk and exhibit held at the new space FreeDom in Bahon, between Bratislava and Trnava, near the train station, will be guided through the process of how to submit their ideas to the database and to be part of this "global performance" piece.
http://www.multiplace.sk
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Website Portrait Performances + Website Wigs
What: Solo-Exhibition
When: Opening May 7, 2008 (changed date!) (Duration of the show: May 7 - June 21, 2008)
Where: Gallery Dana Charkasi, Fleischmarkt 11, 1010 Vienna, Austria.
In one room of the gallery I will be showing Website Portrait Performances (2005). This interactive multi-media installation examines the hypertext link structure of "www.whitehouse.gov" and
displays it in a new visual language: as a knotted, meshwork-like drawing of all the links on its home page. This structure can be navigated via the mouse-chair - a large track ball that
serves as as a computer mouse when sitting down on it - which triggers simultaneously video-clips and the actual web pages of the site pulled in through a live Internet connection.
The choreography of the videos - in which I am playing a Charlie-Chaplin-like character inspired by the movie The Great Dictator - derives from the HTML code of the site, translated into
movement instructions. The user can explore these links - and their interpretation into video-clips - like a landscape, while training his/her abdominal and back muscles...
In the second room of the gallery I will be showing Website Wigs (2004-08), among them also new additions to the series. Website Wigs are visualizations of the hypertext link structure
of websites. HTML code is knotted into hair representing each website's link structure as a hair-do. Among them: google.com, apple.com and the gallery's own website, as a wig.
http://www.dana-charkasi.com
http://www.ursenal.net/wpp/wppintro/
http://www.ursenal.net/websitewigs
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Taboo Theater 2.0
What: Blog and Internet/Theater project
When: Online Participation starts NOW; Theater project on location: May 19-24, 2008.
Where: Online and at Theater am Neumarkt in Zürich/Switzerland
How: ONLINE PARTICIPATION!!
Taboo Theater 2.0 is an Internet/Theater project by Ursula Endlicher, Ela Kagel and Anke Zimmermann, focusing on the question: How much taboo does art need?
Historically it seems that theater has always embraced topics regarding the breaking or rethinking of ethical values in its society. What will a theater-production face when
inviting a global society with diverse approaches towards art, culture, and societal habits, to participate in it? In the blog section of this piece we are inviting everyone to
submit images, sound files, texts, videos or comments on taboos in art, theater, literature, or on the Web, which will then be part of a week-long theater production at
Theater am Neumarkt/Chorgasse in Zürich from May 19-24, 2008. The Internet is our global stage and we are hoping that via the blog many different points of view will be conveyed, as
they will co-determine the outcome of the piece. The structure and functionality of the blog will be translated onto the theater stage, where the collected content will be further worked on.
Participate in this project: http:www.theateramneumarkt.ch/tabublog
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Labfactory - Lecture/Showing/Sneak Peek
What: Laboratory/Lecture/Showing/Sneak Peek
When: May 28, 2008 -- 8PM
Where: Labfactory, Vienna, Austria
For the next part in the Series "Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited" I will be working with Kazuko Kurosaki (Aiko). We are currenlty rehearsing
on further developments in juxtaposing html and dance for a new Website Impersonation to be performed in December 2008 at LABfactory.
In the Lecture part I will talk about the html-movement-library and its projects and encourage the audience to participate in it. Furthermore we will demonstrate first ideas of how to
enact the instructions from the html-movement-library. Website planned to be impersonated in December: www.wikipedia.org.
Code/Choreography at Labfactory: http://www.labfactory.at
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RECENTLY: EVENTS SPRING 2008 in NEW YORK:
Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #10, #7 and #1
What: Performance
When: April 3, 4 and 5 at 5:30 PM.
Where: Performance Mix Festival/FestivalHUB at LMCC Swing Space@Seaport, 210 Front Street/Corner
Beekman, New York, NY 10012
I showed new developments in Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited, (2006-2008) which is a live performance series (in ten parts) utilizing Web code as choreography.
In these performances I am taking on the "character" of a Website - with its logo and color scheme - and perform its HTML code, which is fed in from the Web "on the fly".
Websites impersonated: "www.orkut.com", "www.msn.com", and "www.yahoo.com". More documentation coming soon...
http://www.ursenal.net/wi_ttmv
http://www.el.net/nda/mix.html
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PREVIOUSLY: SHOWS AND EVENTS IN EUROPE IN SEPTEMBER '07:
Website Wigs
in 'Contemporary Baroque - extreme excess', at BM-Suma Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey -- opens September 3, 6 PM.
I will be showing a selection of my 'Website Wigs' and 'Website Wigs, Interrupted' Series.
'Website Wigs' are visualizations of the hypertext link structure of websites. Html code is braided into hair representing each Website's link structure as a hair-do. Websites being portrayed
as wigs are google.com, intel.com, among others.
In 'Contemporary Baroque - extreme excess', at BM-Suma Contemporary Art Center, Bankalar Cad. Yanikkapi, SOK.3 #2, Suma Han, Karaköy - Istanbul -Turkey.
Curated by Michele Thursz. Opens September 3. The show runs from September 3 - November 3.
-->http://www.bmsuma.com
-->Website Wigs, Interrupted: http://www.ursenal.net/websitewigs/ww_interrupted
-->Website Wigs: http://www.ursenal.net/websitewigs
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html_butoh
in 'UN_SPACE', at paraflows07 Festival, at MAK-Gegenwartskunstdepot Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark, and Quartier21, Museumsquartier Vienna, Austria -- opens September 13, 7 PM.
'html_butoh' inhabits a web-based performance space which is shared by a "global" mix of participants - its contributors and audiences come from cross-cultural and cross-national backgrounds.
UN_SPACE is the title of this year's paraflows festival in Vienna, exploring inaccessible, invisible, theoretical, and immaterial spaces.
The location of this exhibition is the Contemporary Art TOWER that belongs to the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna: MAK-Gegenwartskunstdepot Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark, 1030 Vienna, Austria.
Opens September 13. The show runs from September 13 - September 23.
-->http://www.paraflows.at/
-->html_butoh: http://turbulence.org/works/html_butoh
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Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #4 - www.youtube.com
at Gallery Tristesse Deluxe, Berlin, Germany / Presented by Upgrade!Berlin -- performance event: September 20, 8 PM.
'Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited' is a live performance series utilizing the html-movement-library for enacting and re-interpreting the source code of the "ten most popular"
websites.
I will perform another sequence from this series -- this time I will enact "www.youtube.com".
Galerie Tristesse Deluxe, Wallstrasse 15, 10179 Berlin-Mitte, Germany.
-->http://www.galerietristesse.org/
-->Presented by Upgrade!Berlin: http://www.upgrade-berlin.net/
-->Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited: http://www.ursenal.net/wi_ttmv
-->html-movement-library: http://turbulence.org/works/html_butoh
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ONGOING: Curating Net-Art - an ongoing blog discussion by Ela Kagel/Mobile Studios and Ursula Endlicher.
NOW: TabooTheater 2.0 Submit your ideas/material etc to the blog! Submissions will be part of the theater lab/production in May 2008 at Theater am Neumarkt/Zürich/Switzerland.
[x] SUBMISSIONS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ONGOING: Submit your html-movement-based video clips to the html-movement-libary!
NOW: TabooTheater 2.0 Submit your ideas/material etc to the blog! Submissions will be part of the theater lab/production in May 2008 at Theater am Neumarkt/Zürich/Switzerland.
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August 2006: Recipient of Commissioning Grant from Turbulence.org for "html_butoh".
May 2006: Finalist for Commissions Program at Rhizome.org
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