Annie Abrahams
Born in 1954, Hilvarenbeek, Pays Bas
Lives in France since 1987
a[at]bram[dot]org
http://www.bram.org
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Doctorat in Biologie university of Utrecht 1979
Diploma of the Art school of Arnhem 1986
Annie Abrahams also makes video, installation and performance pieces.
More information on http://artisteslr.fr/ (french) and http://aabrahams.wordpress.com (english)
She teached at the university of Montpellier in the arts department. 2002-2005

Annie Abrahams was born as a farmer's daughter in a small village in the Netherlands in 1954. When she is going to high school for the first time, she stays mute for three days, the time necessary to learn to express herself otherwise than in the local dialect. Having obtained a doctoral in biology in 1980 she leaves her post as an assistant researcher at the university because her colleagues didn't appreciate she read Dostojevski in her spare time. Annie is teaching biology at high school and obtains a diploma in painting at the art school in 1986. In 1987, with a two years grant from the Dutch government for young artists she is going to live in France, where she stays until now.
There she learns to use a computer to help her to construct and to keep trace of the installations she makes with her paintings on complexity. Annie Abrahams shows her computer drawings for the first time in her show "Possibilités" in l'espace Forum in Nice, France in 1992. When in 1996 she creates a 'meeting place' in a show in Nijmegen, Annie uses the computer to be present from a distance. Since than she produces net specific work and starts "Being Human" (low tech mood mutators / not immersive) her most important web work, that explores ways of interpersonal relations on the net. This work concentrates on the possibilities and limitations of communication on the net and has been shown in various international new media and video festivals and shows. (Skopje, Mexico City, Tallinn, Seoul, Atlanta, Montreal, Athens, Clermont Ferrand, Tokyo, Bristol, Seattle, Split, Rotterdam, San Fransisco etc.)

"When studying biology I had to observe a colony of monkeys in a zoo. I found this very interesting because I learned something about human communities by watching the apes. In a certain way I watch the internet with the same appetite and interest. I consider it to be a universe where I can observe some aspects of human attitudes and behaviour without interfering. (for instance in ViolenceS http://bram.org/indexviolence.html )
I am also interested in providing a situation in which the visitors, by leaving a personal trace, collaborate in revealing a collective voice, participate in the emergence of a staggering beginning for a language of the multitude. I am convinced these collections contain a revelation of actual tendencies in society (our contemporary being) and procure us a kind of cartography of the other. (I am looking for ways to introduce the web-created-text objects in real space, to inseminate these collections with physical energy, I want to give "flesh and bones" to what exist as potential in a computer and what appears as only light on a screen)
On the web I am also experimenting with the possibilities of making visitor behaviour (by clicking, choosing, participating, the visitor reveals the work of the artist) the content of an esthetical contemplation (see Separation , Painsong, Karaoke)." " Interview with Annie Abrahams" by Béatrice Bonfanti 2005.

Interview with Annie Abrahams par Bertrand Gauguet in Archée. (French) 2000.
Pavu.com interviews anniea for P2P. 2003
"Interview with Annie Abrahams" by Béatrice Bonfanti for weblogart. 2005
Entretien avec Annie Abrahams pour une mémoire. January 2006. (French)
Réponses au questionnaire "Net & cri - NetÉcrit" by Constance Krebs & remue.net, January 2007. (French)
"Rencontre avec Annie Abrahams", Video interview by Charles Prémont for Le Lien MULTIMÉDIA. March 2008. (French)
Radio interview Annie Abrahams by Ida Hiršenfelder http://www.radiostudent.si/article.php?sid=17354
081215_Annie_Abrahams_intervju_01.mp3 December 2008.
Derrière l’écran : Entrevue avec Annie Abrahams Video 10 min.  Paule Macrous Patric Mondou, Uqam Montréal. 2008 - 2009. (French)
Video Interview for the festival RIAM Marseille March 2009. (French)