If you knew me would you love me?A performance of the browser, the browser as performance By Chia Amisola
Join us for a live performance of browser-based net art by Chia Amisola. __ As ambience underlies the (web)site, we raise questions of ‘intimacy without proximity’, spirituality & defaults, labor & ‘serving’, memory & decay, and the mythologies of technologies — an embrace and reimagining to move towards revolutionary, liberatory, mutually-shaped, and loving webs.
The website is a practice of self-preservation. ( Remember me on this computer. ) Through the site of a website was I able to make space for myself. ( Within a domain, I found the machine was nature itself. ) The website is a performance. ( My offline self / my online self / my whole self ) A conversion rate, a transfiguration, a prayer was technology itself. ( CLICK to be SAVED! ) Might software be the thing that best mirrors our own mortality? ( The link and the body rot; the liberation is forever. ) Computation is not construction, but construction might be computation. ( Software might be the softest thing about me. ) My poetic inefficiency is a grace, my love is a technology. ( Everything truly performant is immeasurable. ) If you listen closely enough, can you peer down at networked cables like you do the canopies of trees? ( Do you see life in all the life’s work that surrounds you? ) Can you know me until we can’t help but love?
In between a poetry reading (the browser as a concrete poem), a durational performance (ever-expanding & participatory & networked), an ambient show (live on the browser), and maybe even a prayer. You are welcome to sit back and treat the experience as a screening, or join the participatory works with your own personal device.