*Can the essence of a website called Being Human created between 1997 and 2007, be translated into a book in 2023?*
I am very happy and proud to announce the release of my book *Being Human . een bloemlezing . an anthology* The book is part of the exhibition *REBOOT <https://nieuweinstituut.nl/projects/reboot-baanbrekende-digitale-kunst>: Pioneering Digital Art* at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. It contains *44 poems*, a *Fore Words* by Erika Fülöp, an *Ad Verbs* by me. The graphic design is by Alexandre Leray. A book as a derivative of something that is gone, which at least, now can no longer be experienced as in the time when it was made. ... *Being Human* has always been a linguistic universe, in which different voices, languages, poems, codes and variables mingle into a labyrinthine whole. And so it appeared a challenge and logical to me to try to capture *Being Human* into a book, into a collection of poetry. " *A fantastic and fascinating semiotic mess. It is text. Type undefined. We bounce back and forth between languages that we understand and others we don't, between ourselves and others, between humans and the space between them, caught in the interface that connects and separates them and us*." *Erika Fülöp*. The book costs *24 euro* and will be *for sale* at NAI Booksellers (NAi Boekverkopers) in Rotterdam (next to the Nieuwe Insttuut). You can also order one with me for 24 euro + porto. ISBN: 978909037631, 160 pages, A5, hardcover. With thanks to: LI-MA, Amsterdam; the Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam and the Jaap Harten Fonds, Den Haag. Opening *REBOOT <https://nieuweinstituut.nl/projects/reboot-baanbrekende-digitale-kunst>: Pioneering Digital Art,* *Saturday October 7 * Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. Free entrance, Sign up HERE <https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-opening-reboot-baanbrekende-digitale-kunst-713722331707> . Exposition *8/10/2023 – 1/04/2024* Twenty ground-breaking digital artworks from the Netherlands, which helped define our societal relationships with technology, are on display, alongside new works by ten makers who take inspiration from them in looking towards the future. Works by *Annie Abrahams*, Livinus and Jeep van de Bundt, Driessens & Verstappen, Edward Ihnatowicz, JODI, Bas van Koolwijk, Lancel/Maat, Jan Robert Leegte, Yvonne Le Grand, Peter Luining, Martine Neddam, Marnix de Nijs and Edwin van der Heide, Dick Raaijmakers, Joost Rekveld, Remko Scha, Jeffrey Shaw, Debra Solomon, Steina, Peter Struycken, and Michel Waisvisz. *Contemporary responses* by Janilda Bartolomeu, Cihad Caner, Dries Depoorter, Swendeline Ersilia, Ali Eslami, Jonas Lund, Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters, Katja Novitskova, Ekim Tan, and brui5er. Curators: *Sanneke Huisman* of LI-MA and *Klaas Kuitenbrouwer* of Nieuwe Instituut. *Being Human* will be presented as: A projection of *BramTV*, *2005* (*online* version) Three screens with *BramTV* *special Collection 1, 2 and 3*, *2006* ( *offline* stand alone version) And a poetry *book*: *Being Human . een bloemlezing . an anthology*, *2023*. Best Annie
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