"The Old Internet" is an ongoing performance series of brief appearances and explorative sketches that playfully entangle the audience (online or offline) in situations reflecting on online social-media, or invite them into spontaneous narratives based on structural or historical components of the Internet.

There have been six performances/appearances so far... and a very nice review.***

	The Old versus the New Internet (2009) Live Appearance during the opening of "Levels of Undo" at Location One Gallery, September 9, 2009. The Old Internet appears during the opening of the show and tries to make new friends while connecting to their hair... images
	Come Sit on The Old Internet's Lap! (2010) Live Performance during "studios on view"*, April 24, 2010 The Old Internet invites visitors onto its lap to listen publicly to their secret wishes... images
	Follow the Old Internet's Plan (2010) Live Performance at Chashama Harlem Studios Gallery**, May 6, 2010 The Old Internet follows the stock quote percentage of LVLT, ATT, AOL etc. (=the original Backbone's companies represented by rubber bands attached to its belt!). While rearranging their structure accordigly it gets quite entangeld in its market trends... images
	The Old Internet.... IS the Electronic Man (2011) Photographic appearance at "The Electronic Man" Project, MACRO Museum Rome, June 23-26, 2011 The Old Internet celebrates Marshall McLuhans 100th birthday by connecting from a sunny balcony in NYC - via its digital tongue - to "The Electronic Man" Project by Salvatore Iaconese and Oriana Persico in Rome. There, The Old Internet's gestures are getting re-enacted in different ways... images
	The Old Internet Slide Show (2012) Online live performance during the LOW LIVES Festival, April 27-28, 2012. Screening of performance video at LOW LIVES: ISEA2012, Sept.22 2012. The Old Internet reminisces on its infancy and youth and recites statements from the early net days. Each declaimed quote followes a ride down an infant's slide. To be efficient and deliver as many statements/packets as possible in 5 minutes the Old Internet gets quite a work-out... video
	Let The Old Internet be your chaperone at your favorite social-hang-out or event (2014) The "Experience" has been sold during ART F CITY ROAST and AUCTION The Old Internet chaperoned the highest bidder to a public event of their choice. tumblr
*reocurring event at artist's studio      **The performance took place within the exhibition "Stitched Topographies" by Christine Gedeon. ***Corinna Kirsch says on Art F City in "Pratt Upload Recap: The Post Human Panel" (October 21, 2014):    "...I'm a fan of "The Old Internet, a live performance where [Ursula Endlicher]    dresses up as an old man who talks about ye olden days of the world wide web.    Just trying to imagine the Internet in the 90s, even, proves difficult;    there's so few archives around to showcase what Aunt Sue's Geocities    looked like. So it's a fine and noble task to keep circulating that historical memory."

The Old versus The New Internet The Old Internet appears at an opening at Location One Gallery and tries to connect to the visitors - via its long beard to their hair. Here an attempt to connect to artist Mark Napier. (Credits: Photo by Lee Day)
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Come Sit on The Old Internet's lap! The Old Internet invites the visitors at studio on view onto its lap to listen publicly to their secret wishes... Here with artist Mandy Morrison. (Credits: Photo by Valerie Hallier)
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Follow The Old Internet's plan One evening at Chashama The Old Internet follows that day's stock quote percentage of its origial Backbone's companies such as LVLT, ATT, AOL etc (=represented by rubber bands attached to its belt!) and rearranges their structure accordigly... with the effect to get totally entangeld in its market trends... View more photos of this performance on Flickr!(Photo credit by Chashama)

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The Old Internet.... IS the Electronic Man The Old Internet celebrates Marshall McLuhans centennial by connecting - via its digital tongue - to "The Electronic Man" Project" by Salvatore Iaconese and Oriana Persico at the ADD Festival @ MACRO Museum in Rome. There The Old Internet's gestures are getting re-enacted in different ways... (Photo credit: Ursula Endlicher)
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The Old Internet.... IS the Electronic Man At the ADD Festival @ MACRO Museum in Rome The Old Internet meets the Electronic Man... More of these re-enactments here... (Photo credit: xdxd_vs_xdxd)
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The Old Internet.... IS the Electronic Man At the ADD Festival @ MACRO Museum in Rome The Old Internet meets the Electronic Woman! More of these re-enactments here... (Photo credit: xdxd_vs_xdxd)
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