Author: intima.org

Igor Štromajer
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solo show
22 November 2024 – 11 January 2025
artKIT
· opening: Friday, 22 November at 18.00

1. Exhibition

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Štromajer exhibits random objects that the electric poet needs for his work, as well as parts of machines and defunct computer equipment that processed the Unicode poems and contributed to the creation of the book. The author’s basic premise is that (para/non)art resides not only in the idea, in the concept, i.e. not only in the nominal and the declared, in itself, but equally in the tools and machines that produce it. The machines that generate it are an indispensable part of it.

3¦×Fń-Qé3=Miá+ is part of Štromajer‘s years-long process of dedigitalization, from the deletion of his net art works in 2011 to the present, because the only way to liberate ourselves from feudal techno-capitalism is through collective and total dedigitalization.

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2. Book · Collection of Poems

The centerpiece of the exhibition is a book of one hundred and one poems co-written by a human and a machine. The poems were generated between 2013 and 2018 by semi-automatic conversion of .jpg and .gif image files from the author’s deleted net art works [1996-2007; 2011] into text form using the Unicode Encoding Standard.

➠ artKIT, Glavni trg 14, Maribor
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday from 15:00 to 19:00, Saturday from 10:00 to 13:00

↓ photos from the opening, 22 November 2024
📷 Janez Klenovšek / KIBLA

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IZIS – 12th Festival of Audiovisual and New Media Art 2024
JUST CONTROL – group show
Libertas, Koper
opening: 4 October 2024
exhibition: 5-20 October 2024
curator: Irena Borić

Igor Štromajer:
Expunction, 2000 · 2011 · 2024

On March 13, 2000, net non-artist Igor Štromajer programmed the first known artwork for UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) cell phones, which used the then standard WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) to access the Internet. The title of the work was wap.sonnet – microbe.4/wap.art, and among the 30 other files that made up the whole, it included a file called ctrl.base.wml (1.29 kB), which was responsible for controlling and managing the net art work.

On May 16, 2011, as part of the ritual deletion of his net art works called Expunction, the author deleted the entire wap.sonnet of 17 kB from his intima.org server, and with it also the ctrl.base.wml file.

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Against the Stream of Time
· 10th Triennial of Contemporary Art U3
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· 10. trienale sodobne umetnosti U3
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Opening: Friday, 21 June 2024

Moderna galerija MG+
Museum of Modern Art
Ljubljana, 21 June – 17 November 2024
Curator: Tevž Logar

Igor Štromajer ↝ 101.72 MB (2024)

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Štromajer participates at the exhibition with his latest series on memory – electrical machines, computers, phones and other digital devices and their parts that once produced, processed, transmitted and stored his net ⁿᵒⁿ⁻art (motherboards, sound and graphics cards, disks and magnetic tapes, fans, keyboards, chips, processors, cables, etc.), but are now partially or completely dead, no longer performing their basic functions, carrying only a physical memory of them.

These dead machines are part of the author’s intimate history, the memory which serves to mislead, betray and misrepresent, instead of describing the past. A false memory, however, does not offer an authentic image of the past it speaks of, but always only a misleading, deceptive, fictional and distorted, falsified image.

Like software, hardware is also changing rapidly, continuously and inexorably, losing its functionality, purpose and, consequently, its content – the (non-)art itself. The author’s basic premise here is that (non-)art is not only hidden in the concept, the idea, i.e., not only in the nominal and declared (non-)art, but equally also in the tools and machines that produce it. That is why the parts of machines on display, now more or less dead, are full of intimate memories that have faded and stories that have died.

In the exhibition, Štromajer‘s 101.72 MB is presented through a two-part setup that includes twenty framed electronic ready-made objects that simulate—pretend to be—art, and the skeleton of a disused robot employed in his previous works.

The series as a whole is part of Štromajer‘s years-long de-digitalization processes, from the deletion of his classical net ⁿᵒⁿ⁻art works in 2011 to the present, because the author believes that the only way to liberate ourselves from feudal techno-capitalism is through collective and total de-digitalization.

The title of the work indicates the amount of now deleted net ⁿᵒⁿ⁻art works (101.72 MB of files) produced and processed by the exhibited machines and their parts between 1996 and 2007: intima.org/ex.

de-digitalization ≠ re-analogization

Štromajer first appeared at the U3 in 2003, curated by Christine Van Assche, chief curator of new media at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

↓ artists ↓
Nika Autor, Jaka Babnik, Nataša Berk, Viktor Bernik, Maxime Berthou & Mark Požlep, Martin Bricelj Baraga, Jasmina Cibic, Ana Čavić, Lana Čmajčanin, DNLM, Aleksandra Domanović, Vadim Fishkin, Jošt Franko, Tomaž Furlan, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Sanela Jahić, Staš Kleindienst, Andrea Knezović, Polonca Lovšin, name:, The Nonument Group, Gala Alica, Marjetica Potrč, Tobias Putrih & Ardalan SadeghiKivi, Tjaša Rener, Peter Rauch, Maruša Sagadin, Duba Sambolec, Luka Savić, Maja Smrekar, Robertina Šebjanič, Andrej Škufca, Igor Štromajer, Apolonija Šušteršič, Ulay, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Matej Andraž Vogrinčič, Nana Wolke, Neja Zorzut

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