Category: ART WORKS

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Štromajer‘s latest pseudo-art series on dead tech: Tecnologia morta – electrical machines, computers, telephones and other digital devices and their parts that once produced, processed, transmitted and stored his net and video pseudo-art (motherboards, sound and graphics cards, disks and magnetic tapes, fans, keyboards, chips, processors, cables and other computer parts), but are now partially or completely dead, no longer performing their basic functions, carrying only a physical memory of them.

dedigitalization ≠ reanalogization

Like software, hardware is also changing rapidly, continuously and inexorably, losing its functionality, purpose and, consequently, its content – the (pseudo-)art itself. The author’s basic premise here is that (pseudo-)art is not only hidden in the idea, i.e. not only in the nominal and declared 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. These dead machines are part of the author’s intimate history, the memory which serves to mislead, betray and misrepresent us, instead of painting and 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. That is why these dead machines and their fragments, which appear to be worthless electronic garbage, tell us much more about the originals, the original pseudo-artistic works that they once helped to produce, than the originals themselves.

The series is part of Štromajer‘s dedigitalization processes over several years, from the deletion of his net art works back in 2011 to the present.

20 items / dimensions:
· 52 × 52 × 6 cm (6 x)
· 37 × 37 × 6 cm (7 x)
· 27 × 27 × 6 cm (3 x)
· 11.7 × 11.7 × 3.3 cm (4 x)

(white wooden frames with objects under clear glass)

Oppera Teorettikka Internettikka
· created and performed by Igor Štromajer
(singing HTML and Java in English and Slovenian language)
· a version with remastered sound, February 2024

18 March 1999
Opera and Ballet of the Slovene National Theatre in Ljubljana

18 March 2024 marks the 25th anniversary of Oppera Teorettikka Internettikka, performed in 1999 on the stage of the Opera and Ballet of the Slovene National Theatre in Ljubljana.

Previously, Štromajer first sang the Oppera at the SeaFair – Skopje Electronic Arts Fair at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje (at the invitation of Melentie Pandilovski) in 1998, and at the transmediale in Berlin in January 1999 (at the invitation of Tilman Baumgärtel; in Kulturzentrum Podewil).

· audio recorded live by Borut Savski (ministry:of:x-periment) and aired on Radio Študent
· produced by Anatom, co-produced by Intima Virtual Base and Kapelica Gallery
· camera by Jurij V. Krpan, photo by Igor Delorenzo Omahen; special thanks to Bojana Kunst, Nataša Kos, Borut Smrekar

Le Pavarotti du HTML – Le Slovene Stromajer crée des opéras en code web; par Marie Lechner (le vendredi 2 février 2001, Libération, Paris)

Igor Štromajer‘s book of computer-generated poetry will be published in autumn this year. It contains one hundred and one unicode poems co-written by a human and a machine between 2013 and 2018.

Igor Štromajer
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one hundred and one poems
co-written by a human and a machine

MMC KIBLA, 2024

The poems will be published both as a printed book as well as a USB card.

↓ portrait of the poet ↓

plus
electro post pseudo meta proto punk
concert by !gor #352;

LIVE in Kino Šiška
Ljubljana, Friday, 29 September 2023
10 pm

NOW IS HERE!

curators: Alja Lobnik & Janez Janša
producers: Tina Dobnik & Polona Dolžan, Maska 2023
photos: Katja Goljat
video camera: GVR

Continue reading “✚ punk”

— prompt:
write html code for a dynamic, single-page net art work in the style of igor štromajer

— GPT:
“Sure! Igor Štromajer is known for his interactive and dynamic net art works. Here’s an example of a single HTML page that incorporates some of his style elements:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset=”UTF-8″>
<title>Igor Štromajer-style net art</title>
<style>
body {
background-color: black;
color: #01ffff;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
text-align: center;
}

#container {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
height: 100vh;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}

#text {
font-size: 99px;
font-weight: bold;
animation: flicker 0.1s infinite alternate;
}

@keyframes flicker {
0% {
opacity: 1;
}
50% {
opacity: 0.5;
}
100% {
opacity: 1;
}
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id=”container”>
<div id=”text”>+</div>
</div>

<script>
document.addEventListener(‘mousemove’, function(event) {
var x = event.clientX;
var y = event.clientY;

var grayscale = Math.round((x + y) / 9);

var container = document.getElementById(‘container’);
container.style.background = ‘rgb(‘ + grayscale + ‘,’ + grayscale + ‘,’ + grayscale + ‘)’;
});
</script>
</body>
</html>

In this example, the HTML document contains a single page with a black background and turquoise text. The text is styled to flicker using a CSS animation. The ‘mousemove’ event listener is added to the document, which changes the background color of the container div based on the mouse position, creating an interactive effect. Feel free to customize the text, styles, and animation to further match Igor Štromajer‘s style.”

1st rehearsal!

+ plus +
suburban- electro- post- pseudo- meta- proto-
punk concert
by !gor #352;

photo Ernst Thürnau

→ coming up:
Maska 2023
Ljubljana, September 2023
LIVE in & from Kino Šiška

Continue reading “!gor #352; +”

└⦿✚⦿┘
➠ I described myself to Stable Diffusion and then asked it to turn me into a furry toy.

• intima.org/o-o

Continue reading “└⦿✚⦿┘ furry”