#gorgeousTaps

[performingonline]

Performance for Multi-User Online Environments (Before COVID-19)

I’m Angela Washko and I am currently teaching a course called Performance Art (In The Expanded Field) at Carnegie Mellon University and have recently had to switch to teaching remotely - a switch that comes maybe more naturally to me than others because of my experience participating in the net art community and operating as a performance artist specifically within online environments. Before everyone was forced to work remotely because of an international pandemic, many artists were already thinking about the internet as a context for performance art.  I wanted to put together a resource focused on artists who have been doing the work of thinking about the specificity of virtual spaces as sites for performance and making work mindful of the unique qualities of the contexts they operate in. I hope that this list of works could be a resource for educators and artists who are interested in looking at artworks by individuals who have been thinking very intentionally about performance in networked contexts.

This list includes artists performing for webcam, artists performing in virtual environments, and artists performing for social media. It specifically focuses on performance, and excludes works of net art that do not contain performance-for-the-internet.  The list also primarily focuses on performance works that are made without the use of expensive equipment or access to institutional spaces (although I know there are some exceptions on this list). Also - it is in no way complete or comprehensive! 

*This list does not include the many artists who perform for video and upload their performances online - UNLESS the artist is specifically thinking about engaging with the digital audience and not prioritizing the gallery as a context. 

**Sexually explicit or violent content that may be uncomfortable for some viewers and situations

Annie Abrahams and Emmanuel Guez, Reading Club (video conferencing)

Annie Abrahams, Daniel Pinheiro and Lisa Parra, DistantFeeling(s) (Zoom)

Annie Abrahams, Ruth Catlow, Paolo Cirio, Ursula Endlicher, Nicolas Frespech and Igor Stromajer, Huis Clos / No Exit (video conferencing)

Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Finding Fanon 2 (Grand Theft Auto V)

Robert Adrian, The World in 24 Hours (networked happening)

LaTurbo Avedon, Visiting Artist Talk (multi platform)

Jeremy Bailey, various performances by Famous New Media Artist Jeremy Bailey (YouTube)

Jeremy Bailey, The You Museum (online advertising banners)

Man Bartlett, 24hr non-Best Buy (Twitter)

Genevieve Belleveau, Gorgeoustaps and The Reality Show (Facebook)

Wafaa Bilal, Domestic Tension (livestream website)

Wafaa Bilal, Virtual Jihadi (Quest for Saddam game)

Mary Bond, autodissociate me (4chan)**

Marco Cadioli, Remap Berlin (Second Life, Google Maps, Twinity)

micha cárdenas, Becoming Dragon (Second Life)

Ruth Catlow and Helen Kaplinsky, Sociality-machine (video conferencing, custom software)

Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett and Neil Jenkins, VisitorStudio (custom software for online performance)

Jennifer Chan, factum/mirage (Chat Roulette)**

Jennifer Chan, factum/mirage III (Chat Roulette)**

Channel TWo [CH2], barelyLegal (Google Maps)

Corpos Informaticos, Telepresence 2 (telepresence project)

Petra Cortright, VVEBCAM (YouTube)

Jeff Crouse and Aaron Meyes, World Series of ‘Tubing (Competitive YouTube-ing)

James Coupe, General Intellect (Amazon Mechanical Turk)

Joseph DeLappe, dead-in-iraq (America’s Army)

Joseph DeLappe, The Salt Satyagraha Online: Gandhi's March to Dandi in Second Life (Second Life)

Joseph DeLappe, Howl: Elite Force Voyager Online (Elite Force Voyager Online)

Joseph DeLappe, Quake Friends (Quake III Arena)

Kate Durbin, Unfriend Me Now! (Facebook Live)

Kate Durbin, Cloud Nine (Cam4)**

Electronic Disturbance Theater, FloodNet (Java applet)

Entropy8Zuper! (Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn), WIREFIRE (Flash 5)

Entropy8Zuper! (Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn), skinonskinonskin (multi platform)

Jason Eppink, Kickback Starter (website, Kickstarter)

Cao Fei, RMB City (Second Life)

Mary Flanagan, [borders] (Second Life)

Foci + Loci, many projects (Little Big Planet 2)

Ed Fornieles, Dorm Daze (Facebook)

Carla Gannis, C.A.R.L.A G.A.N. (virtual environments and social media platforms)

Riley Harmon, Poser (Andy Warhol’s Grave Livecam)

Amber Hawk Swanson, Sidore (Mark) / Heather > LOLITA (livestream)**

Josh Harris, We Live In Public / Quiet (livestream)

Auriea Harvey, Webcam Movies (webcam)

Ann Hirsch, Scandalishious (YouTube)

Ann Hirsch, horny lil feminist (website)**

Faith Holland, Porn Interventions (RedTube)**

Shawné Michaelain Holloway, a personal project (XTube)**

Shawné Michaelain Holloway, b4bedwithurlbae (Periscope)**

Brian House, Joyride (Google Maps)

Brian House, Tanglr (Google Chrome extension)

E. Jane, E. The Avatar (YouTube, online store)

E. Jane, That time I sold my dreads online (ebay)

JODI, SK8MONKEYS ON TWITTER (Twitter)

Miranda July, Learning to Love You More (website)

Devin Kenny, Untitled/Celfa (webcam performance)

Laura Hyunjhee Kim, The Living Lab (social media, website)

Gelare Khoshgozaran and Nooshin Rostami, Just Like A Disco (webcam)

Gelare Khoshgozaran, Misscommunication (webcam)

Gelare Khoshgozaran, Realms of Observation (Chat Roulette)

Lynn Hershman Leeson, The Dollie Clone Series (webcam livestream)

Olia Lialina, Animated GIF Model (multiple webpages)

Olia Lialina, Self-Portrait (browser)

Olia Lialina, Summer (multiple webpages)

Jordan Wayne Long, Box Shipment #2 (Lord of the Rings Online)

Gretta Louw, Controlling Connectivity (Skype and others)

Low Lives, Virtual Performance Series (livestream)

Michael Mandiberg, Shop Mandiberg (ecommerce site)

Eva and Franco Mattes, Freedom (Counter-Strike Source)

Eva and Franco Mattes, Life Sharing (website)

Eva and Franco Mattes, No Fun (Chat Roulette)**

Eva and Franco Mattes, Re-Enactments (Second Life)

Eva and Franco Mattes, Synthetic Performances (Second Life)

Lauren McCarthy, Follower (artist-made app)

Lauren McCarthy, LAUREN (livestream surveillance)

Lauren McCarthy, Social Turkers (Amazon Mechanical Turk)

Lauren McCarthy, SOMEONE (webcam)

MTAA, 1 year performance video (aka SamHsiehUpdate) (livestream)

Jayson Musson / Hennessy Youngman, Art Thoughtz (YouTube)

Martine Neddam, Mouchette (website)

Mendi and Keith Obadike, Blackness for Sale (ebay)

Marisa Olson, Marisa’s American Idol Training Blog (blog)

Randall Packer & Systaime, #NeWWWorlDisorder (Facebook Live and website)

Sunita Prasad, Sunny & Benny Together Forever (My Free Implants website)

Jon Rafman, Kool Aid Man in Second Life (Second Life)

Bunny Rogers, 9 Years (Second Life)

Stephanie Rothenberg, Invisible Threads (Second Life)

Stephanie Rothenberg, Best Practices In Banana Time (Second Life)

Annina Ruest, A Piece of the Pie Chart (Twitter, webcam)

Annina Ruest, Rock N Scroll (Skype)

Nicole Ruggerio, AR Filters (Instagram)

RaFia Santana, #PAYBLACKTiME (Facebook and Paypal)

Anne-Marie Schleiner, Joan Leandre, Brody Condon, Velvet Strike (Counter-Strike)

Leah Schrager, Sarah White - Naked Therapy (video chat)**

Skawennati, TimeTraveller ™ (Second Life)

Molly Soda, various projects (multi platform)

Georgie Roxby Smith, Fair Game (Grand Theft Auto V)

Georgie Roxby Smith, 99 Problems [Wasted] (Grand Theft Auto V)**

Eddo Stern, Fort Paladin (America’s Army)

Eddo Stern, Runners (Everquest)

Tale of Tales, ABIOGENESIS (Endless Forest)

Third Faction, Demand Player Sovereignty (World of Warcraft)

Toca Loca, Halo Ballet (Halo)

Amalia Ulman, Excellences and Perfections (Instagram, Facebook)

VNS Matrix, Corpusfantastica MOO (MOO - multi-object oriented multi user dungeon)

Addie Wagenknecht & Pablo Garcia, Webcam Venus (sexcam sites)**

Angela Washko, BANGED: A Feminist Artist Interviews the Web’s Most Infamous Misogynist (Skype)

Angela Washko, The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft (World of Warcraft)

Angela Washko, The World of Warcraft Psychogeographical Association (World of Warcraft)

Brett Watanabe, San Andreas Deer Cam (Twitch, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas)

[colonizedminds]

today marks my #jesus year, 🐏 past #Saturn #Neptune 🌎 the planetoid towards regenerating 🌙 a year to chill and learn this new place ☄️ this spring shit is real #vitamind 🌬 #readytoroll #nofomo #ramjam2k17 #tbt to #soppen #oslo with the btown bae #gorgeoustaps (at Berlin, Germany)

[bodyolove]

Levitation of Nature's Goddess. Model @gorgeoustaps

[justmarysew]

Repost from @worksofadreamershop ... Soooooo, I just got these Awesome sample tapes from @ninejuniperavenue and both cloth and paper tapes are durable and stick really, REALLY well to whatever you want to have decorated with her lovely tapes. Take it from me, these would be a wonderful thing to add to decorate your packages, scrapbooking, cards, gifts, you name it. If it can be taped these will do the job splendidly. Please visit her Etsy shop to buy some of her gorgeous washi tape at a friggin awesome price!!! _ #igshops #etsybuyers #etsy #etsyshop #handmadegoods #creativity #art #craftylove #follow #supporttheshops #hemp #creativity #checkitout #checkit #macrame #jewelry #earrings #necklace #handwrapped #bookmarks #washitape #tapeplace #tapeshop #gorgeoustape #clothtape #papertape #scrapbooking #packaging #forher #forhim http://ift.tt/2CKRwnI

[gorgeoustaps]

Sacred Sadism and The Artists Submission, a new work for @electricobjects Art Club.  Performed by Jos McKain and photographed by Elizabeth Preger.  My visual interview with EO can be viewed here 

[birkthomassen]

Performance close-up.

[newhive]

Emily Gaynor talks to Los Angeles-based artist Genevieve Belleveau (gorgeoustaps) about therapeutic role-play, the inherent knowledge and eroticism of plant life, creating a more compassionate world through the practice of BDSM, and Sacred Sadism – her newly commissioned project for NewHive.

[adreemwrld-blog]

Genevieve Belleveau: Monk

2014

New York

[designerdonuts-blog]

RIGHT BEFORE I BEAT HER 

<3<3

[gorgeoustaps]

Photo by my brother Caleb of the first stage of my Mobile Monastery dream.  Read more here 

[sleazeburger]

I'm in a group show examining URL vs. IRL with a bunch of amazing artists TONIGHT in SoHo! COME!!!

presented by the Jack Chiles Gallery, 481 Broadway, Floor 4 New York

May 20th - ­23rd, 2013 Noon - ­9pm Produced by Angelina Dreem and Valerie Veatch

B.Y.O.Device QR K­HOLE of redirected content and original digital art by: Vuk Cosic Nick DeMarco Deanna Havas Jessica Biel© Genevieve Belleveau aka gorgeousTaps Travis Egedy Alexandra Gorczynski Spencer Mansfield Ashby Signe Pierce Jono Mî Lô Debora Delmar Corp.

The FEED is an IRL platform for curated sharing of web content presented by Angelina Dreem and Valerie Veatch. The avatars of select artists are placed in the Jack Chiles Gallery, surrounded by QR codes linking to URL's of their creative discretion. The gallery experience becomes reflective of how web culture is consumed: through a screen and at the whim of curiosity, guests linger among avatars, bookmarking and sharing favorites at this B.Y.O.Device show. Gallery guests are encouraged to graze for as long as they like, soundtracked to live DJ's streaming from all over the world via MixLr.com.

The FEED presents an environment in which content is simultaneously being created, consumed and shared, an experiment in prosumption.

[adreemwrld-blog]

Genevieve Belleveau 

Swamp 1

2013

[feed-the-feed]

Our Opening Party TOMORROW with GorgeousTaps, Raul DeNieves, and Dia Dear and La Porscha streaming live from Los Angeles. 

[snowywilderness-blog]

Under the auspices of the one-week residency of the one and only Ventiko, Genevieve Belleveau orchestrated a really fun satirical-performative Day Spa at Culturefix last week and then Rebecca Smeyne photographed it for Paper, aka Next Level Bizness! Also featured/in the house were Labanna Babalon, Ariele Max, Angelina Dreem, Brian Whateverer, Mind Dynamics, Clara Carter of Beauty Today Magazine, Lindsey Leonard, Seva Granik, and Palmtrees Caprisun Citrusblast!

[futurewake-blog]

Geneviève Belleveau - High Priestess of the Garden of Earthly Delights

[artselfie]

#artselfie @kritbangkok — by @gorgeoustaps http://instagr.am/p/ViCsapJLji/