Annie Abrahams, Angry Women (Take 3), 2011

Annie Abrahams combines the traditions of net.art, video, and performance to create networked performances like Angry Women (Takes 1-5) and Angry Men (Take 1), which explore the limits of personal and social communication using new technologies. (Also see Loneliness Together:http://www.bram.org/beinghuman/alone/allfr.htm)

Abrahams: “When studying biology I had to observe a colony of monkeys in a zoo. I found this very interesting because I learned something about human communities by watching the apes. In a certain way I watch the internet with the same appetite and interest. I consider it to be a universe where I can observe some aspects of human attitudes and behaviour without interfering. (for instance in ViolenceS http://bram.org/indexviolence.html )

“I am also interested in providing a situation in which the visitors, by leaving a personal trace, collaborate in revealing a collective voice, participate in the emergence of a staggering beginning for a language of the multitude. I am convinced these collections contain a revelation of actual tendencies in society (our contemporary being) and procure us a kind of cartography of the other. (I am looking for ways to introduce the web-created-text objects in real space, to inseminate these collections with physical energy, I want to give “flesh and bones” to what exist as potential in a computer and what appears as only light on a screen)

“On the web I am also experimenting with the possibilities of making visitor behaviour (by clicking, choosing, participating, the visitor reveals the work of the artist) the content of an esthetical contemplation (see Separation , Painsong, Karaoke).” ” Interview with Annie Abrahams” by Béatrice Bonfanti 2005.(http://bram.org/info/aa.htm)

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