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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">Hi all,</font><br>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">Trebor asked me to introduce
myself to this list. I'd like to start with a few words about my
work.</font></div>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">I am Ursula Endlicher, and I am
an artist working on the intersection of Internet, performance and
installation.</font></div>
<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">In my work I am using the Web's
structures and grammars, foremost HTML code of specific Websites, to
choreograph performances. The chosen Websites I have used so far in
the performance series "Website Impersonations: The Ten Most
Visited" have been facebook, myspace, wikipedia, to name just a
few.</font><br>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">In these performances I am using
participatory databases - the html-movement-library(ies) which
collect user submitted videos (online) or texts (while on
stage/online) - to co-choreograph the show.</font></div>
<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">The videos and texts in the
library are showing or describing how HTML tags could look when
performed through movement. (In order to come up with a movement,
users, dancers, performers are encouraged to read more about it at
http://turbulence.org/works/html_butoh to find out which functionality
each tag serves in a browser and how to parallel this to physical
movement.)</font></div>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">So in my performances, dancers,
audience and Web code together influence the course of the live
show.</font></div>
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Here are some links/documentation movies to previous performances:<br>
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Website Impersonation of facebook:</font></div>
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color="#000000">http://www.ursenal.net/wi_ttmv/index8.html</font></div
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">-- and a direct link to a
docu-movie about it:</font></div>
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>http://www.ursenal.net/wi_ttmv/index8facebookmovie.html<br>
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Website Impersonation of Wikipedia.org:</font></div>
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color="#000000">http://www.ursenal.net/wi_ttmv/index6.html</font></div
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">-- and a direct link to a
docu-movie about it:</font></div>
<div><font size="-1"
color="#000000">http://www.ursenal.net/wi_ttmv/index6wikimovie.html</font
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">More of my work:</font></div>
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color="#000000">http://www.ursenal.net/</font><br>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">I am very much looking forward to
participating in this already exciting discussion, triggered by
Trebor's text and questions about labor and Internet, leading up to
the conference. Topics such as user participation, privacy, online
personae (this comes back to me as a topic, differently though to how
I was interested in it in the late 1990-ies), pseudonyms
versus "real'" names, and "behavior" online and
its possible effect on offline actions, are among the issues which
have an impact on my work, and which I'd like to further investigate
and share with this list.</font></div>
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Looking forward to moreŠ</font></div>
<div><font size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
Ursula</font><br>
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