Facebook User Labor Enactments — The code = The choreography by Ursula Endlicher, with Burak Arikan :: November 13, 2009; 6:00 pm :: The New School, 66 West 12th, Room 404, New York City :: Free but registration is required.

Facebook User Labor Enactments is a new live performance which uses Burak Arikan’s ULML code (User Labor Mark-up Language) as choreography. Five performers and the audience will together shape the course of the show. Arikan’s newly developed ULML-based software application 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 by 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

More information on the conference “The Internet as Playground and Factory”.
More info on “Facebook User Labor Enactments”.
Register for the event/performance.
Read more about Burak Arikan’s ULML language.