html_butoh

"Ursula Endlicher translates real-time data into choreographies for Internet art works, performances and installations. html_butoh questions the way information is indexed on the Web; it enacts the 'Global Top 500' websites and is choreographed by their real-time HTML structure. Small video clips show participants translating the 'functionality' of each HTML tag into movement. The URLs, and therefore the 'stage,' changes every 3:28 minutes, running through 500 websites within a twenty-four hour cycle. html_butoh runs on the html-movement-library, an open-for-participation video clip database. In Butoh—a Japanese dance technique—the dancer 'becomes' an image through her movements, which parallels to how a web browser scans through HTML and displays its content. By submitting to the html-movement-library every participant instantly becomes part of the html_butoh performance. " -- From Turbulence