Intima | Igor Štromajer

Igor Štromajer:
»Thoughts live in people!« / »Im Menschen lebt der Gedanke!«

Light Art Festival: Ascents / Lichtkunstfestival: Aufstiege
17 September – 9 October 2016
Curator: Joachim Fleischer

High watchtower at Esslingen Castle / Hochwacht der Esslinger Burg; Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
Preview: 11 September 2016

– Flickr Album
– Facebook Album
– Aufstiege – Light Art Festival / Lichtkunsatfestival, Kulturregion Stuttgart
– Stadt Esslingen am Neckar / Presse
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From 17 September to 9 October, the »Ascents« light art festival will enable visitors to discover flights of steps, vantage points, Stuttgart’s famous »Stäffele« steps, towers and other ascents from a new perspective. The festival‘s curator, Joachim Fleischer, has invited more than 40 artists from 10 different countries to draw inspiration from the many different places of ascent in the region. All these unique installations can be viewed every day from 8 pm to 12 midnight in 25 different towns and cities.

Slovenian-born multimedia artist Igor Štromajer sends out a coded message from the watchtower in Esslingen to the town below. The lights that blink from the windows of the watchtower are relaying a message in Morse code. A clue to the meaning of this message is provided in the name of his work »Im Menschen lebt der Gedanke!« (»Thoughts live in people!«). Štromajer leaves it to the observer to either decode the message or simply enjoy the sensory perceptions.

(Tabea Krauß, art historian)

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Events:

— Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 8 pm:
Künstlergespräch mit Igor Štromajer / Artist talk: Igor Štromajer; Altes Rathaus Esslingen, Lempp-Zimmer (Old Town Hall, Esslingen)

— Monday, 26 September 2016 at 7 pm:
Salon am Montag: Kontroversen, Forum für Kultur, Politik und Gesellschaft, Café Lux, Esslingen
Das Gespräch mit Igor Štromajer und dem Publikum moderiert Benedikt Stegmayer, Leiter des Kulturamtes Esslingen (The discussion between Igor Štromajer and the audience is moderated by Benedikt Stegmayer, Head of Esslingen Cultural Department)

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Posta Benandante Project – Tribute to Piermario Ciani

Collective mail art project / exhibition
— curated by Paola Bristot, Marco Pasian; Associazioni Viva Comix di Pordenone | Porto dei Benananti
11–30 June 2016
Galleria PAB Punto Arte Benandantee, Portogruaro, VE, Italy

+ Bilbolbul International Festival, Bologna, Italy, opening of the exhibition: 25 November 2016 at 8.30 pm
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+ list of artists

A contribution by Igor Štromajer:

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intimadotorgslashfuture

internet artwork
⇢ intima.org/future
by Igor Štromajer
is for sale for € 12.610,00

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What do you get?

– the entire intima.org/future idea/concept (0/zero files, 0/zero folders)
– an original invoice
– all standard ownership rights to the concept/idea of this artwork; possibility to negotiate for further special and specific rights

– [bonus gift, for free] screenshot (browser: Chrome 48.0.2564.116 m) / print of the non-existent website/URL, framed in black, broken front glass, 29,7 ⨯ 42 cm (11.69 ⨯ 16.54 in), hand signed by the artist

Interested?
Still available for purchase!

intima.org/intimadotorgslashfuture

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Yami-Ichi – Offline Geek Flea Market
internetstadl#3

Saturday, 9 April 2016 at NRW-Forum Düsseldorf

Are you tired of being dependent on the internet and want to return to the physical world? On the occasion of the Night of Museums 2016, the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf will host a Yami-Ichi as its third Internetstadl, where products from the internet will be sold in real life – a kind of offline celebration of online products.

#embroidery: 25 DIY cross-stitch patterns
by Igor Štromajer

The new monthly series of events Internetstadl offers an introduction to the digital future. The Internetstadl brings together creative and digital pioneers and turns online culture into an entertaining event format. Internetstadl ist curated by Alain Bieber, artistic director of the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, together with the net artist Florian Kuhlmann and the creator Thomas Artur Spallek.

At the Offline-Geek-Flea Market objects will change real hands that are otherwise only available online – the offline world as a legal black market. Following Tokyo, Berlin, Brussels and Amsterdam the Yami Ichi, invented by the Japanese artist group IDPW, is now coming to Düsseldorf.

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██ – microformance

[ummuu eene, ookko, aaasa]

Igor Štromajer: ██ – microformance
0,04m³ Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia

[vimeo https://vimeo.com/150236370]
VIDEO: Vimeo + YouTube

Saturday, 26. December 2015 at 18:32

+ Flickr Photo Album

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Igor Štromajer je para-umetnik in intimni mobilni komunikator. Za svoja dela je prejel več nagrad, v svojih stalnih zbirkah pa jih hranijo različne umetnostne institucije, med drugimi Centre Pompidou v Parizu, Museo Reina Sofia v Madridu, Computer Fine Arts Gallery v New Yorku in Umetnostna galerija v Mariboru. Je prejemnik Glazerjeve listine, priznanja za umetniške dosežke mesta Maribor. Raziskuje distopične emocije, ki izhajajo iz nezmožnosti komunikacije, vzpostavlja strategije brezrazložnega upora ter ponuja neuspešne taktike preseganja politične tesnobe. Decembra letos razstavlja tudi na pregledni skupinski razstavi Krize in novi začetki: Umetnost v Sloveniji 2005-2015 v +MSUM (22.12.2015 – 3.4.2016).

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by Igor Štromajer

The Widget Art Gallery
2 November – 18 December 2015
Curator: Chiara Passa

Special thanks to Gretta Louw for the title.

The Widget Art Gallery (WAG) is an app and a platform, a mini single art gallery room that fits into people’s pocket. The virtual gallery-room hosts a solo digital art exhibition every month.

– further instructions and downloads
– direct link to current exhibition

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#FoundArt

Unnamed Group

Artists: user, username, profile_name, alias, default, name, visitor, guest, anonymous, login_name, account_name

Unnamed Group is a web-based anonymous group performance. Reflecting on the cloaked nature of the web, in a time when identity profiling is becoming more and more default, it also aims to explore the performative character of the web in opposition to a more commonly used presentational use.

This web page, as all others, is hosted on a webserver. 10 artists were individually invited and received access to this webserver to be able to edit this page. Their identities are not disclosed to the public or to each other. The only interaction they have, is within the directory of this server, or in the case of the perception of the public, within this page.

The login details were sent to the participants on the 1st of November 2015 at 20.00 CET. The performance started as soon as the first participant logged in and edited this page.

Unnamed Group is a pavilion of The Wrong (again), New Digital Art Bienale, 2015

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The Wrong (again)
New Digital Art Biennale
1 November 2015 – 31 January 2016
online and in selected locations worldwide
— a global art event founded by David Quiles Guilló

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