Parque Cultural de Valparaíso
Valparaíso, Chile
Exhibition: Alzheimer
23 August – 14 October 2012
Igor Štromajer: u«{ë{©ß†
video
“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
an alternative documenta
what a 21st century documenta could look like
Igor Štromajer – Is this Art? Is This Life?
Igor Štromajer’s recent work combines video, much of it taken from the web, that then is distorted, altered, and overlaid.
Nevertheless Štromajer persists…and produces an uncanny mixture of web ‘snapshots’, coded play, and seemingly irrelevant theoretical discourse. Having been one of the first Internet artists to combine video, performance and the web, he deleted much of his previous works from his server in 2011 (see http://www.intima.org/expunction/) an interesting solution to a problem that plagues much of first generation net.art – its incompatibility with new web norms. In fact these works can still be downloaded from the artist’s website, allowing others to ‘view them privately’ or put them on their own servers…thereby leaving the act of digital art conservation to its audience.
www.intima.org offers further territory for exploring the Life (and perhaps the Art) of Igor Štromajer.
Curator: Christian de Lutz
Notes on the work ‘The Last Territory – On Solitude’ by Igor Štromajer
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Robot Museum
A+A Gallery, Venice, Italy
(Slovenian exhibition venue)
Opening of the exhibition: Friday, 11 May 2012 at 18.00
Authors: Stefan Doepner, Srečo Dragan, Luka Drinovec, Luka Frelih, Sanela Jahić, Boštjan Kavčič, Nika Oblak & Primož Novak, Borut Savski, Sašo Sedlaček, Maja Smrekar, son:DA, Zoran Srdić Janežič, Robertina Šebjanič, Igor Štromajer and Branko Zupan.
Emobot, Igor Štromajer, 2011, ready-made
The Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova
[Moderna galerija Ljubljana]
Exhibition: The Present and Presence – Repetition 1
Opening: 17 April 2012, 8 pm
MSUM: Special Projects
Complementing the repeated exhibition are five special projects. One of them is An Archive of Performance Art, curated by Blaž Lukan.
Ballettikka Internettikka (2001-2011) by Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman is exhibited in the frame of An Archive of Performance Art.
www.intima.org/bi
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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.
Is This Art? Is This Life? (by Igor Štromajer)
Photos: Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt a.M.
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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
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Photo: Janez Janša, Aksioma
– sporočilo za medije (PDF)
– Press Release (PDF)
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
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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
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
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#tm2k12 installation by Constant Dullaart and Robert Sakrowski
Art Laboratory Berlin
Saturday, 14 January, 2012
3.30 PM: Tour of the exhibition Controlling_Connectivity with Gretta Louw and Regine Rapp (curator)
4 PM: Artists’ talk Current Artistic Practices on Time and Technology with Gretta Louw, plan b (Sophia New & Daniel Belasco Rogers) and Igor Štromajer; moderation: Christian de Lutz (curator).
In connection with the exhibition Controlling_Connectivity by Gretta Louw and the series Time and Technology Art Laboratory Berlin is presenting an artists’ talk on the theme current art practices on time and technology featuring Gretta Louw and plan b (Sophia New & Daniel Belasco Rogers) as well as the internet artist Igor Štromajer (www.intima.org). The talk will be introduced and moderated by Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz.
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