Ursula Endlicher

Ursula Endlicher
Born	Vienna, Austria
Nationality	Austrian
Alma mater	Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1991) School of Visual Arts (1993)
Website	Official website

Ursula Endlicher is an Austrian multi-media artist who creates works in the fields of internet art, performance art and installation art.

Ursula Endlicher was born in Vienna, Austria. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1991. In 1995, she received a Master of Fine Arts, with an emphasis in computer art, from the School of Visual Arts. She relocated permanently to New York City in 1993.

Endlicher has created technology-based performances and installations that use live Internet data. A recurring theme in her work is the "nature" of the web and the behavior of its users, addressed through exploitation of the Internet’s inherent architecture, the web’s HTML language, and user behavior on social media sites. Endlicher’s earliest Internet artwork was presented at the Thing's Vienna bulletin board in 1994. Her internet art works have been since been commissioned for the Whitney Museum’s artport (Light and Dark Networks, 2012; Famous for One Spam, 2004) and for New Radio and Performing Arts’s Turbulence.org website (html_butoh).

Two of her projects—the performance series Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited and html_butoh—use HTML code as the basis of a movement language. That is, HTML (and later XML) tags are translated into a set of dance movements, thus making the web code visible and physical. Endlicher writes, "I first had the idea to 'perform' HTML in 2006, when I discovered a parallel between HTML tags (the language the Web is written in) and Butoh (a Japanese dance technique, which is based on 'becoming an image' in the performance)." In html_butoh these movements are recodified into a database of small video clips.Website Impersonations has been hosted at SIGGRAPH, the Center for Performance Research, Light Industry, and elsewhere.

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