Annie Abrahams
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17 May 1954 Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Education | University of Utrecht, Academy of Fine Arts Arnhem |
Annie Abrahams (born 1954) is a Dutch performance artist specialising in video installations and internet based performances which also consist of collective writings and derives from collective interaction. Born and raised in Hilvarenbeek in the Netherlands, she migrated and settled in France in 1987. Her performance work challenges and questions the limitations and possibilities that are implicated when internet users communicate from one to another by the use of new media known as cyberformance.
She was born in a small farmer's village in the Netherlands. Annie has received a doctorate from the University of Utrecht for biology with the additional degree from the Academy of Fine Arts Arnhem.
Brought into a world of agriculture, her academic pathway led her to becoming internationally known for her contribution and pioneering of networked performance art and collective writing experiments. After succeeding her doctorate in 1980 she was assigned as an assistant researcher amongst the University. Her enthusiasm for the arts still continued after teaching biology and received a diploma in 1987 for her paintings which was then later recognised by the Dutch government with their proposal of grant offerings over the next two years while she studied and moved to France. Whilst migrating to France she developed her ability to utilise and use software/applications on a computer to help enhance and construct installations based on the complexities of her paintings In 1992 her computer drawings were exhibited in her show Possibilities located at the l'espace Forum in Nice, France. From 1996 Abraham delved further into network performance with the emphasis on space and distance social networking entails by creating a physical space to interact with the 'virtual world' in a show in Nijmegen. She develooped a website called Being Human with net art works she described as performative interventions in the public space of loneliness = the Internet. (1997–2007). She taught at the University of Montpellier as part of the arts department from 2002 till 2005.
Abrahams from 2002 till 2005 taught in the arts department at the University of Montpeiller to then later curate InstantS for panopile.org (2006 to January 2009), Breaking Solitude and Double Blind further web performances that took place in 3 consecutive years (2007, 2008 and 2009)
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