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BIO
Ursula Endlicher's work resides on the intersection of Internet, performance and multi-media installation. Since the mid 1990ies her practice has been bridging the gap between the World Wide Web and physical reality. She translates the social and structural components of the Web into choreography for performances, into installations, and objects. She just recently showed her new online data performance called "Light and Dark Networks" (2012), commissioned by The Whitney Museum for Artport, on Whitney.org. She has exhibited and performed her work internationally in venues such as ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose, the transmediale festival in Berlin; SIGGRAPH Asia, Japan; Jersey City Museum, NJ; Postmasters Gallery, New York; the Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn; and at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland. Her net-art work has been commissioned by Turbulence, and by the Whitney Museum for artport; her Internet/theater work has been presented by the "Theater am Neumarkt" in Zürich, Switzerland. She participated in the Virtual Residency 2.0 at Location One, and was invited to several international Festivals on networked culture and performance. She recently gave a "Lightning Talk" at the LISA Conference at the Guggenheim Museum, NY. Her work is part of the ursula blickle's videoarchiv at the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, Austria, and the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University.
Her website is www.ursenal.net.
Her website is www.ursenal.net.
Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited
Dates:
Thu Apr 03, 2008 00:00 - Wed Apr 02, 2008
You are invited to dance html with me this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday during three new "Website Impersonations" Performances at the Performance Mix Festival at LMCC's Swing Space@Seaport in New York (210 Front Street corner Beekman).
Schedule:
Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #10 - www.orkut.com (April 3, 5:30 PM sharp)
Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #7 - www.msn.com (April 4, 5:30 PM sharp)
Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #1 - www.yahoo.com (April 5, 5:30 PM sharp)
Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited (2006-2008) is a live performance series, which utilizes Web code as choreography. In these performances I am embodying the "character" of a Website - this time I have a cast of performers joining me! - and perform its html code, which is fed in from the Web "on the fly". During each of the performances the source code of the website is immediately translated into ongoing movement instructions, representing different html tags. These instructions derive from the html-movement-library, an online database of user-submitted movement suggestions, and from other parts of the html language. The sound accompanying the performance is another translation of the code - it is interpreted as a musical score. The audience on location is invited to participate in the html dance.
More information on Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited: http://www.ursenal.net/wi_ttmv.
The html-movement-library -- always open for submissions!! -- http://turbulence.org/works/html_butoh.
Performance Mix Festival: http://www.el.net/nda/mix.html#series.
LMCC Swing Space: http://www.lmcc.net/art/swingspace/210front/index.html.
Credits:
Title: Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #10, #7, and #1
Concept / Stage / Video Projection / Music / Web Programming: Ursula Endlicher
Choreography: html-movement-library / live HTML code
Performers: Nancy Agabian, Robert Appelton, Ursula Endlicher, Laura Meyers
AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION ENCOURAGED!
These events are FREE!
I hope to see you there!
Ursula
Schedule:
Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #10 - www.orkut.com (April 3, 5:30 PM sharp)
Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #7 - www.msn.com (April 4, 5:30 PM sharp)
Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #1 - www.yahoo.com (April 5, 5:30 PM sharp)
Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited (2006-2008) is a live performance series, which utilizes Web code as choreography. In these performances I am embodying the "character" of a Website - this time I have a cast of performers joining me! - and perform its html code, which is fed in from the Web "on the fly". During each of the performances the source code of the website is immediately translated into ongoing movement instructions, representing different html tags. These instructions derive from the html-movement-library, an online database of user-submitted movement suggestions, and from other parts of the html language. The sound accompanying the performance is another translation of the code - it is interpreted as a musical score. The audience on location is invited to participate in the html dance.
More information on Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited: http://www.ursenal.net/wi_ttmv.
The html-movement-library -- always open for submissions!! -- http://turbulence.org/works/html_butoh.
Performance Mix Festival: http://www.el.net/nda/mix.html#series.
LMCC Swing Space: http://www.lmcc.net/art/swingspace/210front/index.html.
Credits:
Title: Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #10, #7, and #1
Concept / Stage / Video Projection / Music / Web Programming: Ursula Endlicher
Choreography: html-movement-library / live HTML code
Performers: Nancy Agabian, Robert Appelton, Ursula Endlicher, Laura Meyers
AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION ENCOURAGED!
These events are FREE!
I hope to see you there!
Ursula
Taboo Theater 2.0
Deadline:
Sat May 24, 2008 00:00
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.
More information/ Participate in this project: http://www.theateramneumarkt.ch/tabublog
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.
More information/ Participate in this project: http://www.theateramneumarkt.ch/tabublog
members reception
Yes, It was a really nice event, I agree with Tim!
It is fantastic to meet with people in RL who one only sees online most of the time :-)
Thanks, Lauren!
Ursula
It is fantastic to meet with people in RL who one only sees online most of the time :-)
Thanks, Lauren!
Ursula
Upcoming shows and events in Europe
Hi all,
I hope you all are having a great summer.
I wanted to let you know about several shows and events I am having in September in Europe.
Should you be in these places at the given time, please come by.
Would be fantastic to see you here or there.
All best --
Ursula
http://www.ursenal.net
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*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, Karakoy - Istanbul -Turkey.
Curated by Michele Thursz. Opens September 3. The show runs from September 3 - October 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, 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 -- 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, Gendarmenmarkt, 10117 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
I hope you all are having a great summer.
I wanted to let you know about several shows and events I am having in September in Europe.
Should you be in these places at the given time, please come by.
Would be fantastic to see you here or there.
All best --
Ursula
http://www.ursenal.net
-----
*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, Karakoy - Istanbul -Turkey.
Curated by Michele Thursz. Opens September 3. The show runs from September 3 - October 3.
http://www.bmsuma.com
Website Wigs, Interrupted: http://www.ursenal.net/websitewigs/ww\_interrupted
Website Wigs: http://www.ursenal.net/websitewigs
----
*html\_butoh*
in 'UN\_SPACE', at paraflows07 Festival, at MAK-Gegenwartskunstdepot Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark, 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
----
*Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #4 - www.youtube.com*
at Gallery Tristesse Deluxe, Berlin, Germany -- 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, Gendarmenmarkt, 10117 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
3/28: Ursula Endlicher: Singing Website Wallpaper + html-movement-library at MediaNoche
Dates:
Wed Mar 28, 2007 00:00 - Tue Mar 27, 2007
The html-movement-library plus Singing Website Wallpaper
Two web-driven installations by Ursula Endlicher
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 6PM - 8PM
Artist's talk: Saturday, April 14, 4PM
Performance: Saturday, May 12, 8PM
MediaNoche
161 East 106th Streeet, First Floor
New York, NY 10029
http://www.medianoche.us
Invite: http://www.ursenal.net/medianoche/UEinvitefront.jpg
Excerpt of Press Release:
MediaNoche, Uptown's gallery devoted to new media, presents the html-movement-library and Singing Website Wallpaper, two web-driven installations by Ursula Endlicher.
In the html-movement-library artist Ursula Endlicher uses physical movement and gesture to re-invent html as a lexicon for choreography. The html-movement-library is an online database of video performances articulating html code through gesture, movement and dance. Visitors at MediaNoche are invited to contribute to the ever-expanding repository of movement by allowing themselves to be video-captured within the installation. They can also browse the library.
In Singing Website Wallpaper Endlicher gives voice to html by re-interpreting code as a musical score and visualizing the scales as printed patterns on wallpaper. While the sound component of the installation is influenced by the actual "flow" of activity on yahoo.com, msn.com and google.com, the wallpaper is "frozen" source code from each site translated into a visual set of functionality-related symbols.
According to Endlicher, "Both installations are data enactments: Singing Website Wallpaper is a graphical and musical representation of the activities on various Websites. The html-movement-library translates the Web's data representations into choreography." In addition, other art projects are utilizing the library's collection of videos and images: Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited and html_butoh are current examples of works that source content from it.
Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited will be performed by the artist at the end of the exhibition. The performance will be generated by real-time source code from the Web combined with material collected in the show and submitted online.
Two web-driven installations by Ursula Endlicher
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 6PM - 8PM
Artist's talk: Saturday, April 14, 4PM
Performance: Saturday, May 12, 8PM
MediaNoche
161 East 106th Streeet, First Floor
New York, NY 10029
http://www.medianoche.us
Invite: http://www.ursenal.net/medianoche/UEinvitefront.jpg
Excerpt of Press Release:
MediaNoche, Uptown's gallery devoted to new media, presents the html-movement-library and Singing Website Wallpaper, two web-driven installations by Ursula Endlicher.
In the html-movement-library artist Ursula Endlicher uses physical movement and gesture to re-invent html as a lexicon for choreography. The html-movement-library is an online database of video performances articulating html code through gesture, movement and dance. Visitors at MediaNoche are invited to contribute to the ever-expanding repository of movement by allowing themselves to be video-captured within the installation. They can also browse the library.
In Singing Website Wallpaper Endlicher gives voice to html by re-interpreting code as a musical score and visualizing the scales as printed patterns on wallpaper. While the sound component of the installation is influenced by the actual "flow" of activity on yahoo.com, msn.com and google.com, the wallpaper is "frozen" source code from each site translated into a visual set of functionality-related symbols.
According to Endlicher, "Both installations are data enactments: Singing Website Wallpaper is a graphical and musical representation of the activities on various Websites. The html-movement-library translates the Web's data representations into choreography." In addition, other art projects are utilizing the library's collection of videos and images: Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited and html_butoh are current examples of works that source content from it.
Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited will be performed by the artist at the end of the exhibition. The performance will be generated by real-time source code from the Web combined with material collected in the show and submitted online.
