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Submission Type

Performance

Start Date/Time (EDT)

19-7-2024 7:00 PM

End Date/Time (EDT)

19-7-2024 7:15 PM

Location

Algorithms & Imaginaries

Abstract

This October I have published a poetry book* made after a website active in between 1997 and 2007. For ELO 2024 in a talk called ".... - a book derived from a website - Why and how?", I explain the decisions in and the process of the making of this book.

For the performance section of the same ELO conference I will perform a re-turn of the poetry in the book to the digital environment of zoom. It will be an experimental reading where different languages (English, Dutch and French)and codes (html, javascript and php) mingle into a "fabulous and fascinating semiotic mess"**.

The original website addressed emotional needs, moods, and desires, which related to connectedness with others and had several sections where visitors could contribute to texts on for instance violence, solitude, desires or fear; thus participating in the creation of what I called at the time the "voice of the multitude".

In the performance Reading a website? I will, besides demo-ing the poetic force of natural language mixed with code, revisit the affect transmitted in these contributions by inviting the assisting conference members to take part in a short section of Reading a website? with their own voice. (I guess this will take around 5 minutes of the whole 15 minutes allowed)

* 44 poems,160 pages printed in offset, black and white, format A5, bound,hardcover with one spot colour. 150 copies, available via book-stores.
** from the Fore Words in the book by an e-lit scholar:

"A fantastic and fascinating semiotic mess.
It is text. Type undefined.
We bounce back and forth between languages that we understand and others we don't, between ourselves and others, between humans and the space between them, caught in the interface that connects and separates them and us."

Bio

Annie Abrahams questions the possibilities and limits of communication in general and, more specifically, investigates its modes under networked conditions. Abrahams is known worldwide for her netart (Being Human – online low tech mood mutators / not immersive.1996 – 2007), collective writing experiments and is an internationally regarded pioneer of networked performance art. In her carefully scripted art, she tends to reveal ordinary human behavior and develops what she calls an aesthetics of trust and attention. https://bram.org

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Jul 19th, 7:00 PM Jul 19th, 7:15 PM

Reading a website?

Algorithms & Imaginaries

This October I have published a poetry book* made after a website active in between 1997 and 2007. For ELO 2024 in a talk called ".... - a book derived from a website - Why and how?", I explain the decisions in and the process of the making of this book.

For the performance section of the same ELO conference I will perform a re-turn of the poetry in the book to the digital environment of zoom. It will be an experimental reading where different languages (English, Dutch and French)and codes (html, javascript and php) mingle into a "fabulous and fascinating semiotic mess"**.

The original website addressed emotional needs, moods, and desires, which related to connectedness with others and had several sections where visitors could contribute to texts on for instance violence, solitude, desires or fear; thus participating in the creation of what I called at the time the "voice of the multitude".

In the performance Reading a website? I will, besides demo-ing the poetic force of natural language mixed with code, revisit the affect transmitted in these contributions by inviting the assisting conference members to take part in a short section of Reading a website? with their own voice. (I guess this will take around 5 minutes of the whole 15 minutes allowed)

* 44 poems,160 pages printed in offset, black and white, format A5, bound,hardcover with one spot colour. 150 copies, available via book-stores.
** from the Fore Words in the book by an e-lit scholar:

"A fantastic and fascinating semiotic mess.
It is text. Type undefined.
We bounce back and forth between languages that we understand and others we don't, between ourselves and others, between humans and the space between them, caught in the interface that connects and separates them and us."