Upgrade! Berlin presents: Ursula Endlicher's Website Impersonations

Thursday, September 20th 8 pm

Gallery Tristesse Deluxe
Wallstrasse 15
Berlin / Germany
U Maerkisches Museum

http://www.galerietristesse.org

Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited (2006/2007)

Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited is a live performance series utilizing the html-movement-library for enacting and re-interpreting the “ten most popular” websites. The special task in this performance series is that the movements are based on improvisation deriving from both computer code and user submission. The choreography for each Website Impersonation comes from the real-time html structure of each site, translated by the library into movement suggestions 'on the fly.'

"As a performer I never know which html tag, and therefore which movement task will come next as this is depending on how the site is scripted at the moment. Simultaneously, the performance is depending on audience participation. The audience is able to submit material ahead of time, so their ideas will be eventually used in the performance. At the gallery I will be showing a new performance sequence of the ten-part series" explains Ursula Endlicher.
Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited: http://www.ursenal.net/wi_ttmv.
The html-movement-library: http://turbulence.org/works/html_butoh.

About Ursula Endlicher:

Ursula Endlicher is a conceptual “multiple-media” artist working on the intersection of Internet, performance and multi-media installations. She is living and working in New York. Having used the Internet since 1994 – and having started to use digital media several years prior – she bridges the Web and physical reality either in multi-media settings or performance. Many works are also solely conceived for the Web. Thematically, her focus lies in analyzing the social, political and structural components of the WWW. Special focus goes to reflecting on the hidden architectures on the Web, such as translating “html” into different visualizations, formats, and even into choreography, to make them visible, enjoyable, and experienceable for everyone. She received online commissions from New Radio and Performing Arts (Turbulence.org), and from the Whitney Museum’s Artport. Her work is included in Rhizome’s Artbase, and featured on Furtherfield.org. Endlicher has shown her work at Artists Space, New York, Illegal Machines, Ars Athena and on Thirteen/WNET’s ReelNY.web. Recent workshops included an invitation to TanzQuartier Wien.
Her work can be found at http://ursenal.net/