Is This Art? Is This Life? – Neue Klarheit (New Clarity)

neue klarheit
vkunst frankfurt IV
media and video art exhibition

Exhibition dates: from April 20 to 21, 2012
Exhibition times: daily, from 8:00 pm to midnight

Is This Art? Is This Life? videos (2011), created by Igor Štromajer, will be shown at the neue klarheit (new clarity) – media and video art exhibition (v_kunst) in Frankfurt.

Location: A. J. Keller und B. Berresheim, Architekten, Fahrgasse 26, 60311 Frankfurt [LichtAn:LichtAus]

vkunst frankfurt is once again taking place in the town center of Frankfurt/Main. The exhibition deals with current video art trends and the direction that this art form is heading. The title “neue klarheit” incorporates philosophy, history, time, and pictures. The moving picture is explored further at this year’s event in order to gain a better understanding of the universe of possible actions in media and video art. Most of the galleries as well as some shops in Frankfurt’s Fahrgasse street once again host the exhibition. And, in doing so, they provide the framework for an open air exhibition hall.

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Is This Art? Is This Life? (by Igor Štromajer)
Photos: Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt a.M.

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The Critique of Pure Reason

The Critique of Pure Reason
by Igor Štromajer

[beta version, Hamburg 2012]

[context] lazy evening
…. [date] Fri 23 Mar 2012
…. [start time] 21:03 GMT+1
…. [course] timeline

[protocol] Short Message Service
…. [from] !gor [my account]
…. [to] friends [select group]
………. [select contact] Barbara
………. [select contact] Charlotte
………. [select contact] Ulrike Susanne
…. [3 friends]
…. [content] come over please
…. all three of you
…. lie down on my bed
…. masturbate
…. without saying anything
…. see you soon
…. [send message] message sent

[3 friends]
………. Barbara [already in your circles]
………. Charlotte [already in your circles]
………. Ulrike Susanne [already in your circles]
…. [action] arrival [3 friends]
…. [location] to [my location]
…. [time] 21:48 GMT+1

[3 friends]
………. Barbara [already in your circles]
………. Charlotte [already in your circles]
………. Ulrike Susanne [already in your circles]
…. [action] taking their clothes off [3 friends]
…. [action] lying down [3 friends]
…. [micro location] my bed
………. [mode] one next to other [3 friends]

[3 friends]
………. Barbara [already in your circles]
………. Charlotte [already in your circles]
………. Ulrike Susanne [already in your circles]
…. [time] 22:02 GMT+1
…. [action] starting to masturbate [3 friends]

[context] complete darkness
[tech] lights off [all]
[human eye] zero visibility
…. [device] PVS14-3P 1AA
…. [type] night vision camera
………. [built-in memory] none
………. [graphic filter] real-time pixelization
………. [%] 72
…. [realistic camera/lens view] lost forever
…. [camera viewfinder] closed
…. [camera operator] !gor [my account]

[sound] text-to-speech software
…. [device] Kindle D00901
…. [action] read
…. [select file] Immanuel Kant The Critique of Pure Reason

[sound] VLC Player [mp3]
…. [device] Vaio VPC SA 3S
…. [type] laptop
…. [select file] syn003.mp3
…. [action] play
………. [mode] loop

[2 friends]
………. Charlotte [already in your circles]
………. Ulrike Susanne [already in your circles]
…. [action] orgasm reached [2 friends]
…. [time] 22:39 GMT+1
………. [mission] completed [2 friends]

[1 friend]
………. Barbara [already in your circles]
…. [action] orgasm not reached [1 friend]
…. [time] 22:41 GMT+1
………. [mood] relaxed [1 friend]

[3 friends]
………. Barbara [already in your circles]
………. Charlotte [already in your circles]
………. Ulrike Susanne [already in your circles]
…. [time] 22:53 GMT+1
…. [action] having a glass of water [3 friends]
…. [action] taking their clothes on [3 friends]
…. [action] leaving [my location] [3 friends]

[me] !gor
………. [mode] idle
…. [end time] 23:18 GMT+1

Ballettikka Internettikka / Lichtungen

Lichtungen – Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst, Kultur und Zeitkritik
Graz, Austria

Heft 129/2012, March 2012:
Ballettikka Internettikka by Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman

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Press: Make Love, Not Art.

Make Love, Not Art.
by Igor Štromajer

[Selected Press Links]

Hagan el amor, no el arte

Por: Roberta Bosco y Stefano Caldana
El Pais, 12 de marzo de 2012

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Make Love, Not Art.

Igor Štromajer
Make Love, Not Art.*
* Jebe & #353; umetnost.
        Prevod: Jure Novak

Exhibition: Expunction
Flickr Aksioma | Flickr Expunction | Facebook | Twitter

www.intima.org/expunction @ Aksioma Project Space
Ljubljana, Slovenia, March 2012

Exhibition opening: Wed, 29 February 2012 at 7 PM
29 February – 16 March 2012
Theoretical and conceptual contextualization: Ida Hiršenfelder, Digital Death

ENG: www.aksioma.org/make_love_not_art
SLO: www.aksioma.org/make_love_not_art/index_slo.html

Photo: Janez Janša, Aksioma

sporočilo za medije (PDF)
Press Release (PDF)

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transmediale 2012: web video – the new net art?

transmediale 2k12 | 31 January – 5 February 2012

in/compatible
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

transmediale 2012 | www.transmediale.de/content/webvideo-new-netart:

Wednesday, 1 February 2012
15:00 – 17:00
25 years of transmediale | web video – the new net art? | panel with Robert Sakrowski, Constant Dullaart, Petra Cortright, Igor Štromajer

Photo: Brane Zorman

If net art is cashing in on the utopian promise of video art, what dream does net art have left for itself? Has it come full circle? Is net.art now at its end? And is it true what the net art veteran Mark Amerika proclaims via Twitter, that “video is the new net art”?

Photo: Brane Zorman

Perhaps the confusion in the question stems from a too-narrow understanding of net art thanks to the label “net.art”, which usually refers only to a small group of artists of a particular time (1995-1999). Such a designation could never really be adequate to the phenomenon of net art, because, like photography, painting, or video art, it is an art form – and art forms are above all defined by their medium. The medium of net art, however, is simply the net: whichever particular form net art takes is irrelevant for its definition. Whether its clients are connecting to the net using stationary computers with browsers or mobile devices with apps, whether their bandwidth speed is fast or slow – “net art will never die!”; since a society without the net is itself now inconceivable (just as it once was without the printing press).

Photo: Brane Zorman

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b.ALT.ica at transmediale 2012

b.ALT.ica
net art work by Igor Štromajer (1998)
is part of the
<collaborative documenting / archiving of netart.activities>
transmediale 2012 installation by Constant Dullaart and Robert Sakrowski

b.ALT.ica (1998–2011) | 169 files: 3.24 MB
Created by Igor Štromajer | Produced by Intima Virtual Base
Courtesy of Moderna galerija Ljubljana – Slovene Museum of Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Awarded: 5.000 DM (West German Marks) at COMTECart 99 / CYNETart festival, Dresden, Germany, 1999 (Kunsthaus Dresden and Medien- und Kulturzentrum Pentacon, Dresden); Curator: Klaus Nicolai
First presented at transmediale.99 (Podewill, Berlin, 1999)
b.ALT.ica Expunction | b.ALT.ica Flickr

b.ALT.ica is dedicated to my father, because this is the place where he lives now. | Franjo Štromajer , 1943–1997

<collaborative documenting / archiving of netart.activities>
#tm2k12 installation by Constant Dullaart and Robert Sakrowski

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