MoTa Museum of Transitory Art
14 February 2014, 8 PM
MoTa Valentine’s Kitchen
– dinner with the artist: Igor Štromajer, Make Love Not Art, projection
Category: EXHIBITIONS
Pixxelpoint 2013
Pixxelpoint Festival 2013
De.fragmentation
Nova Gorica, 29 November – 6 December 2013
Igor Štromajer‘s 0§n–3¦é×F= Miᆠexhibited at the Nova Gorica City Gallery.
Pixxelpoint 2013 Artists:
Primož Bizjak, Mark Durkan & Eilis McDonald, Florian Grond, Kensuke Koike, Marotta & Russo, Anja Medved, Jani Osojnik, Project59 (Irina Danilova, Hiram Levy, Dan Tuvlosky), Marcin Ramocki, Martin Romeo, Christian Rupp, Lena Lieselotte Schuster, Sašo Sedlaček, Owen F. Smith, Maja Smrekar, Igor Štromajer, Miha Turšič, Špela Petrič, Maja Murnik, Visoka šola za umetnost Univerze v Novi Gorici, Workshops with Pamela Barberi
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Selection:
BridA / Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango, Jurij Pavlica
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Curating Your Memory
Curating Your Memory
Curating Your Memory is an evening about deleting, curating and dealing with big data on a personal scale.
V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam
The Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
V2_: Thursday, 28 November 2013 at 8 pm
French philosopher Jacques Derrida made the claim that ‘the mutation in technology changes not simply the archiving process, but what is archivable – that is, the content of what has to be archived is changed by the technology’. What he means is that the style of the content is transformed through new processes and production. Moreover, the relation to time and space created by the fact that within mere seconds one can reach someone in every corner of the world, has also affected the content. Of course this also effects power relations, decision-making and accountability. It is generally known and accepted that archives construct a specific account of history, many things end up in an archive, but even more remains outside, to be forgotten. Questions like who is in charge of an archive, who selects, and for whom is the archive, have been plaguing archives from the beginning. One could argue that the digital accelerates this process, so how to relate to this new situation? What is the value of digital memory and how to deal with big data on a small scale? These questions form the start of an evening with three perspectives.
With Robert Sakrowski, Dragan Espenschied and Igor Štromajer, moderated by Annet Dekker.
This public event is organised by Piet Zwart Institute, Dept of Media Design – Networked & Lens-Based, and made possible with the support of Goethe Institute and V2_.
Igor Štromajer presenting at the V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, 28 Nov 2013, Photo: Sakrowski
I Am Not Good Enough – MNAC Bucharest
Igor Štromajer:
I Am Not Good Enough / Nu sunt suficient de bun
Artist Talk / Solo Exhibition
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
MNAC – Muzeul National de Arta Contemporana
15 November 2013 – 15 January 2014
English: www.mnac.ro/en/archives/3493
Romanian: www.mnac.ro/archives/3493
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Production: Alina Bucur
MNAClab: Larisa Sitar
B3 Moving Image Biennial – Ultrashort
B3 Moving Image Biennial / Biennale des bewegten Bildes
30 October – 3 November 2013, Frankfurt, Germany
2nd winner: Instagram video Love Without Mercy / Liebe ohne Gnade by Igor Štromajer (category Expanded Narration / Ultrashort)
B3 Ultrashot Jury:
– Frédéric Boyer (Artistic Director of the Tribeca Film Festival, New York)
– Eva Paulitsch and Uta Weyrich (Artists)
– Prof. Bernd Kracke (Professor for Electronic Media, President of the Hochschule für Gestaltung – HfG / University of Art and Design Offenbach, Head of the B3 Biennale)
– Award / (The Prizes of the B3)
Award ceremony: on stage with Laurie Anderson, 3 November 2013, Frankfurter Kunstverein.
Photo: Ajda Tomazin
Igor Štromajer receiving the award from the jury members.
Photo: Rudi Weissbeck
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1:1 Expunction
1:1 STOPOVER – Group Exhibition
MSUM – Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova | Moderna galerija Ljubljana
17 October 2013 – 12 January 2014
1to1.mg-lj.si
Curated by Zdenka Badovinac
In collaboration with Maska Ljubljana
Igor Štromajer: Expunction, 2011
www.intima.org/expunction
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Artists:
Azra Akšamija, Julieta Aranda & Anton Vidokle, Jože Barši, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto and Michelangelo Pistoletto, The Collection, the Museum and the History presented by Walter Benjamin, Domestic Research Society, Irwin, Isola Art Center, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Kontekst Collective, Trevor Paglen, Marko Peljhan, Tadej Pogačar, Marjetica Potrč, Marija Mojca Pungerčar, Raqs Media Collective, Marko Sančanin, Igor Štromajer, Apolonija Šušteršič, Dragan Živadinov :: Dunja Zupančič :: Miha Turšič
“When on a scale of 1:1, art not only describes life, it is one with it.”
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Not interested in showcasing art, 1:1 would be better called a stopover for art than an exhibition, since 1:1 art can never be wholly contained in the time frame of an event.
The focus of the 1:1 stopover is the relationship between art and life, and art and institution. When on a scale of 1:1, art not only describes life, it is one with it. This relation can be disrupted by the institution, which is often thought to divorce art from life. Not so, however, when the institution itself tries to establish a similar one-to-one relationship with art by no longer merely representing it, but instead treating it as a partner.
EMAF 2013
Igor Štromajer at EMAF 2013 (European Media Art Festival) in Osnabrück:
Saturday, 27 April 2013
talk/presentation
Omissive Art
a=tF²
by Igor Štromajer
1. Statement:
Omissive Art (Unterlassungskunst) is an active creative process of being passive. The most radical artistic action an artist can do today, is the one he/she does not do. Therefore, my basic mission is not to do art. That is, to do art, by not doing it. The only artistic value of my art is the absence of art. Therefore I call: Make love, not art!
2. Equation:
a=tF²
To find the art, you multiply the time by the square of the force.
3. Related Quotations:
“I don’t want it to be essentially the same – I want it to be exactly the same. Because the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.” Andy Warhol
“I have nothing to say and I’m saying it. The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all.” John Cage
“I have no special message. I wish I did. It would be great if I had one.” Andy Warhol
4. False Examples:
Expunction – deleting net art works: www.intima.org/expunction
Ego Massage: www.intima.org/ego-massage
0§n 3Šé×F= Miá: www.intima.org/miat
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Ego Massage (Ceci n’est pas de l’art)
Ego Massage
(Ceci n’est pas de l’art)
Images, automatically (and fast: max 30 sec per image) created by Igor Štromajer.
“I don’t want it to be essentially the same – I want it to be exactly the same. Because the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.” Andy Warhol
“I have nothing to say and I’m saying it. The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all.” John Cage
“I have no special message. I wish I did. It would be great if I had one.” Andy Warhol
“Make love, not art.” Igor Štromajer
2012–2013
infoMAMA – Almost Spring
Almost Spring / 100 Years of Slovene Art
Group Exhibition | Major overview of Slovene art of the XX and XXI centuries
Maribor Art Gallery UGM l Umetnostna galerija Maribor
30 November 2012 – 24 February 2013
Curators: Breda Kolar Sluga and Simona Vidmar
Igor Štromajer participating with infoMAMA, inter-media installation, 2004
intima • Igor Štromajer 