Annie Abrahams

Quick Facts

Full Name	Annie Abrahams
Occupation	Painter
Date Of Birth	May 17, 1954(1954-05-17)
Age	70
Birthplace	Hilvarenbeek
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	North Brabant
Horoscope	Taurus

Annie Abrahams Biography

Annie Abrahams is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on May 17, 1954 in Hilvarenbeek, North Brabant, Netherlands. Annie Abrahams (born 1954) is an Dutch performance artist who specialises in web-based and video performance, which often stems from collective writings and interaction. She was born and raised in Hilvarenbeek located in the Netherlands Her move to France was a natural progression. and eventually settled at France around 1987. Her work as a performer explores and challenges the limitations and possibilities of online communications and collaboration.

Abrahams continued to investigate computer-related functions, telematic performance and the choices of visitors through works that focus on the admiration of beauty via contemplation and observance of the finer details (for instance, Separation, Songsong Karaoke). In an interview with ARTeMEDIA she discusses her biology-related education and her involvement with social networks, and compares the current and constantly evolving type of social media to the communication and engagement skills of monkeys she studied and concludes that the internet is a great opportunity as a universal platform that can be used to create new ways of interactivity.

From 2007, Abrahams’ work delves into and contextualises how people react and form relationships in distributed online groups, for example in Huis Clos / No Exit and Angry Women. She has collaborated with a number of artists including Mark River, MTAA, Nicolas Frespech, Igor Stomajer and Antye Greie. Her interactive performances often follow a desired ‘footprint left in the sand’ imprinted and left by the duration of the piece as well as formulating and creating a collective language from many different ethnicities and identities of individuals. The key factor of investigation revolves around the notion of human behaviour when presented with a new interactive archive of networked based performance; she explores how participants ‘click’ and ‘choose’ opportunities to create new behaviours and perhaps a new way of thinking, for example a personal interaction without any interference from peers in ViolenceS, a 2009 collaboration with Nicolas Frespech.

This methodology of performance was then adapted and re-performed on a smaller scale with four performers instead of six. As part of the festival based in London If Not You Not Me at the HTTP Gallery in London (12 February till 20 March 2010) it furthered Abrahams’ concept of employing traces from previous events. The adaptation is entitled as Huis Clois/No Exit – Jam; the four performers Antye Greie (Finland), Pascale Gustin (France), Helen Varley Jamieson (New Zealand) and Maja Kalogera (Spain/Croatia) were given the task to synchronize sound together whilst competing with the technological constraints such as time delay when transferring from peer to peer. As part of the whole exhibition in London, Abrahams used digital technologies that accessible to the general public and communicates the factors that create a ‘disconnection’ in amongst a live video/sound collaboration. This fragmented connection between peers in both the virtual and real words consequently generates a fragmented intimacy, frustrations of connectivity (real-time application), shared absences and the desperation to connect from a distance as well as the body’s needs of relieving sensual longing in regards to corporeal reality. Huis Clos/No Exit was also presented at On Translation, NIMK Amsterdam, 2010, with Ruth Catlow, Paolo Cirio, Ursula Endlicher, Niciolas Frespech and Igor Stromajer.

Abrahams was a professor in The University of Montpellier as part of the department of art from 2002 to 2005. In 2005, she co-curated InstantS to Panopile.org, the net.art platform panopile.org (2006 through January 2009) and also the online performances series Breaking Solitude and Double Blind (2007 2008, 2007 and 2009)

Annie Abrahams Net Worth

Annie Abrahams is one of the richest Painter from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Annie Abrahams 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Abrahams is a native of a small village of farmers located in the Netherlands. She received the Doctorate in Biology from the University of Utrecht (1978) as well as a diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts Arnhem (1985).

In a industry in agriculture. Her path to academics led to her becoming recognized internationally for her pioneering performances that were networked as well as her collaborative writing exercises. After finishing her doctorate in the field, she was appointed research assistant at University. While there, she was studying painting and, after receiving her degree, Abrahams was awarded arts funding by the Dutch government. After moving from the Netherlands to France from 1987 to France, Abrahams started working using computer programs (specifically DOEK, created for her by Jan de Weille in 1993) to create and build installations that were inspired by the complexity of her artwork. In 1992, her computer-generated drawings were displayed in the exhibition Possibilities in the L’espace Forum located in Nice, France. In the year 1996 Abraham began to explore networking-based performance, with the focus on distance and space social networking, through creating a physical place to connect with the virtual world’ through a show in Nijmegen. She launched a website titled Being Human with net art work that she described as performative interventions into the space of loneliness in the public and The Internet (1997-2007).

Abrahams also engaged with the traces left behind from a performance on the personal level, as well as generating a new collaborative voice, for example her 2006 collaborations with Clement Charmet in The Webflaneur; “a Data Dandy trip” and with Igor Stromajer in Operra Internettikka.

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Abrahams challenges the dramatic orderings in her web performance of Huis Clos/No Exit – On Collaboration situated in CNES La Chartreuse in early 2010 for six performers whom became accustomed to reading material, illustrations that symbolized and depicted computer monitors. The purpose was to make the creation come to life through the performers. With the title pertaining to a theatrical terms as a claustrophobic piece of Satre, Abrahams integrates the virtual world and the performance device at a distance through the visual and audio recordings of a webcam clustered together to create a split screen. The objective of the piece was to test the levels of intimacy that can be gained from webcam sessions through a task based activity. The performers were then asked to create a single human face using the entire video frame of the webcams, made up of skins and bodies and evoking a sense of unity and intimacy despite the singular audio and visual capture of each performer.

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Annie Ranked on the list of most popular Painter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Annie Abrahams celebrates birthday on May 17 of every year.

During April to August 2014 while on a residency at CONA in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Abrahams explored what it means to be an ‘(e)stranger’. The project involved a website, a performance and the publication of a book.