[NetBehaviour] Book release Being Human . een bloemlezing . an anthology

[Helen Varley Jamieson]

congratulations, annie! 🙂

On 02.10.23 12:05, Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour wrote:
>
> *Can the essence of a website called /Being Human/ created between 
> 1997 and 2007, be translated into a book in 2023?*
>
> I am very happy and proud to announce the release of my book
> /*Being Human . een bloemlezing . an anthology*/**
> The book is part of the exhibition /REBOOT 
> <https://nieuweinstituut.nl/projects/reboot-baanbrekende-digitale-kunst>: 
> Pioneering Digital Art/ at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.
>
> It contains *44 poems*, a *Fore Words* by Erika Fülöp, an *Ad Verbs* 
> by me. The graphic design is by Alexandre Leray.
>
> A book as a derivative of something that is gone, which at least, now 
> can no longer be experienced as in the time when it was made. ... 
> /Being Human/ has always been a linguistic universe, in which 
> different voices, languages, poems, codes and variables mingle into a 
> labyrinthine whole. And so it appeared a challenge and logical to me 
> to try to capture /Being Human/ into a book, into a collection of poetry.
>
> "/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/." *Erika Fülöp*.
>
> The book costs *24 euro* and will be *for sale* at NAI Booksellers 
> (NAi Boekverkopers) in Rotterdam (next to the Nieuwe Insttuut). You 
> can also order one with me for 24 euro + porto.
> ISBN: 978909037631, 160 pages, A5, hardcover.
>
> With thanks to: LI-MA, Amsterdam; the Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam and 
> the Jaap Harten Fonds, Den Haag.
>
>
>
> Opening /REBOOT 
> <https://nieuweinstituut.nl/projects/reboot-baanbrekende-digitale-kunst>: 
> Pioneering Digital Art,/
>
> *Saturday October 7 *
> Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam.
> Free entrance, Sign up HERE 
> <https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-opening-reboot-baanbrekende-digitale-kunst-713722331707>.
>
> Exposition *8/10/2023 – 1/04/2024*
> Twenty ground-breaking digital artworks from the Netherlands, which 
> helped define our societal relationships with technology, are on 
> display, alongside new works by ten makers who take inspiration from 
> them in looking towards the future.
>
> Works by *Annie Abrahams*, Livinus and Jeep van de Bundt, Driessens & 
> Verstappen, Edward Ihnatowicz, JODI, Bas van Koolwijk, Lancel/Maat, 
> Jan Robert Leegte, Yvonne Le Grand, Peter Luining, Martine Neddam, 
> Marnix de Nijs and Edwin van der Heide, Dick Raaijmakers, Joost 
> Rekveld, Remko Scha, Jeffrey Shaw, Debra Solomon, Steina, Peter 
> Struycken, and Michel Waisvisz. *Contemporary responses* by Janilda 
> Bartolomeu, Cihad Caner, Dries Depoorter, Swendeline Ersilia, Ali 
> Eslami, Jonas Lund, Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters, Katja Novitskova, 
> Ekim Tan, and brui5er.
>
> Curators: *Sanneke Huisman* of LI-MA and *Klaas Kuitenbrouwer* of 
> Nieuwe Instituut.
>
> *Being Human* will be presented as:
> A projection of /BramTV/, *2005* (*online* version)
> Three screens with /BramTV/ /special Collection 1, 2 and 3/, *2006* 
> (*offline* stand alone version)
> And a poetry *book*: /Being Human . een bloemlezing . an anthology/, 
> *2023*.
>
>
> Best
> Annie
>
>
>
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