Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited is a Live
Performance Series choreographed by Web code.
In the performance of
Google at the Center for Performance Research on October 3, 2009, three dancers,
two performers, the audience, and I shaped together the course of the show.
The source code of the website - its HTML tags - were interpreted live on stage into new dance movements, which were immediately translated into text-based
descriptions and then stored online into the (text-based) html-movement-library. This information was reused on stage as new instruction material. As the data performance
progressed, more html-movements were developed, stored and altered by the participants.
The inclusion of the html-movement-library on stage enabled a simultaneous exchange of instruction and performance, data and movement input and output, and a continuous transfer between Web and body.
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