1:1 Expunction

1:1 STOPOVER – Group Exhibition
MSUMMuseum of Contemporary Art Metelkova | Moderna galerija Ljubljana

MSUM

17 October 2013 – 12 January 2014
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Curated by Zdenka Badovinac
In collaboration with Maska Ljubljana

Igor Štromajer: Expunction, 2011
www.intima.org/expunction

Bojana Lotte 1:1

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Expunction

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.

Expunction

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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

EMAF 2013

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Ego Massage (Ceci n’est pas de l’art)

Ego Massage
(Ceci n’est pas de l’art)

Ego Massage

Images, automatically (and fast: max 30 sec per image) created by Igor Štromajer.

Ego Massage

“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

Ego Massage

www.intima.org/ego-massage

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

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u«{ë{©ß† [Alzheimer]

Parque Cultural de Valparaíso
Valparaíso, Chile

Exhibition: Alzheimer 
23 August – 14 October 2012

Igor Štromajer: u«{ë{©ß†
video

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“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

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an alternative documenta w/ Igor Štromajer

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 in Venice (Exhibition)

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

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Ballettikka Internettikka at MSUM

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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Is This Art? Is This Life? – Neue Klarheit (New Clarity)

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.

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Is This Art? Is This Life? (by Igor Štromajer)
Photos: Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt a.M.

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