Facebook User Labor Enactments is a new live performance by Ursula Endlicher which uses ULML code (=User Labor Markup Language) as choreography. In the performance on November 13, five performers and the audience will together shape the course of the show.
Using Burak Arikan’s newly developed ULML-based software application which collects user activity on Facebook, the performance will combine this online information as well as audience submitted ideas right on stage. The public is invited to add movement directions to a database which will be used by the dancers during the show. The audience can also try out their own movements of the ULML language!
Facebook User Labor Enactments is a collaborative event breaking down boundaries between user and consumer, performer and audience, and is driven by a continuous exchange between Web and body.
Credits:
Concept / Stage layout / Video projection / Sound: Ursula Endlicher
Web Programming: Ursula Endlicher, David Farine
ULML/Facebook Application written and live feed: Burak Arikan
ULML-movement-library: live feed by Ursula Endlicher – and the audience!
Choreography: ULML-movement-library / live ULML code
Performers: Robert Appleton, Shizu Homma, Laura Meyers, Ralph Meyers, Nancy Schwartz
Production Assistance: Lee Day
Where:
The New School
66 West 12th, Room 404
New York, NY 10011
When:
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 6PM
More information on the conference “The Internet as Playground and Factory“.
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MYPOCKET exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2009, Berlin
More info about MYPOCKET: http://burak-arikan.com/mypocket
MYPOCKET, Installation view at Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, 2009
“New Media: Why” is the fifth in a series that explores aspects of technology-based art. The exhibition will investigate how artists use dynamic, interactive technologies to reveal the logic, structure, and beauty inherent in experimental, non-traditional applications. The exhibition will be presented in the South Gallery and online where audience participation is encouraged. Artists include:
“MYPOCKET”, Burak Arikan
“Confess”, Margot Lovejoy
“Nearly Human”, Douglas Irving Repetto
“Latent Figure Protocol”, Paul Vanouse
“New Media: Why” was curated by Jacqueline Shilkoff, Associate Curator/New Media and the Digital Museum.
Neuberger Museum of Art
Purchase College
735 Anderson hill road
Purchase, NY 10577-1400
New York Times review about the show:
“‘New Media’: Brain Trees, DNA, Receipts … and Bells”, Susan Hodara, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/nyregion/westchester/08artwe.html
Ergenekon.tc shows the network diagram of the society depicted in the 2455 page Ergenekon bill of indictment. Ergenekon is an illegal covert network found in Turkey, the lawsuit is in progress. Connections between the actors of Ergenekon including people, institutions, groups, places, theories, ideologies, and beliefs, together form a multi-branch crack, which can not be controlled with a single leader nor with a complete hierarchy. Ergenekon does not have a center, it is a decentralized network that has multiple centers. Ergenekon network existed because it was able to diffuse in to hierarchical structures such as government and military organizations.
The Ergenekon.tc project does not look for a meaning in the complexity depicted by the Ergenekon bill of indictment, but signifies its intensive complexity.
Ergenekon.tc combines two computer programs. The first program reads the 2455 page bill of indictment document, filters the nouns, and connects them based on their distance in the text. The second program visualizes this networked structure. In the resulting map, the size of fonts represents the frequency of the names, the relative distance represents relationship weights, dark colored areas show the centers formed by high connectivity.
http://www.ergenekon.tc
http://deluks.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergenekon_(organization)
MediaSpace Exhibition, Mypocket and Meta-Markets, 2009, Stuttgart
More info on the exhibition: http://blog.media-space.org/mediaspace/
Meta-Markets: http://burak-arikan.com/meta-markets
MYPOCKET: http://burak-arikan.com/mypocket
