artport gate page October 04: Ursula Endlicher

artport gate page October 04

by Ursula Endlicher

http://artport.whitney.org <http://artport.whitney.org/>

Ursula Endlicher presents some of her projects, among them her most recent =
web work, "Famous For One Spam" (2004), which repurposes the overload of SP=
AM email and juxtaposes the fake identity of the sender with the 'real' per=
son found under that name through Web searches; "Web Performer II" (2000), =
which lets the user choose and bring to life different characters in a play=
via search engine results; "Web Performer" (1999), the 'prototype,' which =
turns your browser experience into a stage full of characters searching for=
their online identity; as well as "Website Portraits," which visualizes th=
e site maps of Microsoft or Google in the form of a wig.

Ursula Endlicher is a multiple-media artist working at the intersection of =
Internet, performance, and installation art. Since 1996, she has been keepi=
ng a critical yet humorous eye on the intricacies of the online experience,=
focusing on its technical and social protocols and the visualizations of i=
nterface. Endlicher's artwork has been presented in Europe and the U.S. by =
THE THING, Channel13/WNET online, Postmasters Gallery, and the Austrian Cul=
tural Forum, New York. In 2000, she was a guest lecturer at the Banff New M=
edia Institute, Canada. Born in Vienna, Austria, she has been living in New=
York since 1993.