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Love The Robots

The Love the Robots show began initial development by Kirsty Boyle in 2010.

Love the Robots is a showcase combining performance/informal presentation, exhibition, workshop and discussion centered around the theme of robots, contemporary art, culture and society. The hybrid format combines practice and theory, serving as a catalyst for a network of collaborations and contacts among local and international artists and audiences. Each show is presented live and streamed online via this website.
The Love the Robots show encourages diverse creative approaches to the process, production, presentation and practice of contemporary robotic arts, audience engagement and community building.

12 March 2010: Dock18, Rote Fabrik, Zurich
15 January 2012: The Edge Digital Culture Center, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
23 November 2012: Rote Fabrik, Zurich

EXHIBITION

The exhibition abstraction contraption explores the world of robots and machines in contemporary art. It forms a part of the Love the Robots Show.
Robots have functioned as idols, toys and cult objects through the ages across almost every culture of the world. Daydreams of machines inform the invention of devices which sense, process and perform in the world around us.
As images created by humans, as well as facsimiles of life, robots simulate our actions – and mirror our imagination. As replicating machines, they stage opportunities for projections of wholeness and fantasies of fragmentation. When contemplation, speculation and engineering intersect, robots are born.
Thinking beyond the utilitarian functions of mechanical devices, artists are exploring our fascination with robotics and critiquing the role of science in society. The practice, often in a DIY, bespoke fashion, has given rise to a new form of creative practice, one that is as grounded in the questioning of technology as it is inspired by its possibilities to entrance.
abstraction contraption provides an overview of different projects realised both regionally, nationally and internationally. The majority of the projects are primarily presented as screen based works, highlighting the abstraction of projected images of the machinic.
The robot as a projected image mutates from detached appliance to an incarnation of obsession. The creation of such intermediary artifacts in turn reveals the playful and idealistic urges within our own human nature.

— Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman: Ballettikka Internettikka

Featured Artists:
Mari Velonaki, Natalie Jeremijenko, Erika Lincoln, Niki Passath, Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum, Michael Candy, Kuuki (Gavin Sade and Priscilla Bracks), Kristoffer Myskja, Petra Gemeinboeck and Rob Saunders, John Tonkin, France Cadet, Ballettikka Internettikka (Igor Štromajer and Brane Zorman), Varvara Guljajeva + Mar Canet, Flight Assembled Architecture (Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, Raffaello D’Andrea), Sputniko!, Kirsty Boyle

To Be Continued / Expunction in Paris

“À suivre”: capturer le temps dans la performance contemporaine
Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers

The dance theorist Bojana Kunst is spending weeks with a choreographer, artist, or other cultural producer (Danae Theodoridou, performer and researcher, Boyan Manchev, philosopher and theorist, Ivana Müller, choreographer, Igor Štromajer, internet artist), exploring the different aspects of work processes within contemporary art, their relationship to time and the political, economic and performative implications of such experimentation. These “full-time” meetings are being shared with the public, either during conversations, performance, or by individual appointment. These occasions offer to the public the opportunity to engage themselves with the ways Bojana Kunst and her partners address their relationships to time. The material produced during these meetings and public situations provides the basis for a publication, to appear in 2012.

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Meeting with Bojana Kunst and Igor Štromajer

Saturday, 17 December 2011, encounter between Bojana Kunst and Igor Štromajer

Live Internet Broadcast:
www.ustream.tv/channel/les-labos
Saturday, 17 December, 16:00 – 19:00 (CET +0100 UTC; Paris Time)

+ ask questions via Twitter, use #explab hashtag.

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On May 2011 Igor Štromajer started to delete his net art projects, created from 1996 to 2007 (Expunction, 2011). The process of deletion opened many questions about temporal fragility of contemporary artistic practice, especially when we talk about new media art works. You are invited to join us at the encounter, where we would like to talk about the disappearance of projects and their temporal traces, about the attempts to keep the projects going on or to delete them, transfer them or archive them, to keep them or to leave them going.

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Appointments on Saturday, 17 December 2011, 4 pm – 7 pm.
Contact Virginie Bobin to set up a meeting, at v.bobin@leslaboratoires.org and +33 153 561 594.

Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers
41, rue Lécuyer, 93300 Aubervilliers, France

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Digital Art Conservation, Strasbourg

Digital Art Conservation: Practical Approaches
Artists, Programmers, Theorists
École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, 24 and 25 November 2011, 09.00–18.30

FR | DE + Download the programme booklet and the poster (PDF)

24 Nov 2011 at 16:15 | Igor Štromajer presenting: Expunction (Deleting http://www.intima.org Net Art Works, May – June 2011)

Artists who create digital artworks face the problem of preservation much sooner than artists who work with more traditional materials. Artists who wish their work to endure always ready for exhibition, must give some thought to preservation strategies from the moment the artwork is created. The choices of standard tools, documentation and modes of distribution are all part of this process.

An interest in the historical value of digital artworks also encourages the institutions that exhibit them to make this particular value visible, in addition to the appropriate conservation of the work. This leads us to reconsider the conservation strategies which advocate the systematic and continuous updating of non-functioning or obsolete devices.

This symposium aims to give an overview of certain strategies that have been implemented over the past few years by presenting the intertwined approaches and practices of theorists, artists, programmers and preservation specialists.

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Townhouse Gallery, Cairo

Townhouse Gallery for contemporary art
Cairo, Egypt
24 November 2011

Die Die Die Beauty (online streaming video by Igor Štromajer, 2007; a part of Breaking Solitude series by Annie Abrahams) is shown in the context of the exhibition called Talk to Me by the Townhouse Gallery for contemporary art in Cairo, Egypt.

Talk to Me is an exhibition that looks at interpersonal communication and the possibility to create intimacy through virtual spaces. It’s taking place in the context of an event series called d1sc0nN3ct, which explores different ways of presenting digital/new media work.

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Emobot / Robot Museum

Igor Štromajer: Emobot, 2011
(Wax 69, Set.3, E-Basic ZX-S 2000+, 8-bit Mono Q Sil)

Maribor Art Gallery: Robot Museum; group exhibition
29 September – 6 November 2011

Štromajer has placed Emobot, an emotional robot, in the gallery. Emobot is not a work of art nor does it produce art. Its only artistic value is absence (of production) of art. Emobot produces art by not producing it, by active omission of production. It is (and it isn’t) an artistic action, performed by not being performed. In other words – it is created by not being created. Emobot is an art work actively absent from the exhibition: the most radical artistic action is the one performed by not performing it. Emobot functions by not functioning, by omitting its functioning. And when it is active, we are not aware how it functions, and actually we don’t want to know. Emobot is omissive art: “Philosophers have so far only changed the world, this is about interpreting the world!”
The work was created in the context of exploring omissive art, the status of art in contemporary society as well as of the value and impact of an artistic action.

Concept of the exhibition: Jože Slaček, Curator: Meta Kordiš
Authors at the exhibition: Srečo Dragan, Stefan Doepner, Luka Drinovec, Luka Frelih, Sanela Jahić, Zoran Srdić Janežič, Boštjan Kavčič, Nika Oblak & Primož Novak, Borut Savski, Sašo Sedlaček, Maja Smrekar, son:DA, Robertina Šebjanič, Igor Štromajer, Branko Zupan

Opening: Thursday, 29 September 2011

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ISEA2011 Lounge at Nuru Ziya

ISEA2011 Lounge @ Nuru_Ziya: 3rd Cocktail Hour, 18 September 2011.

Igor Štromajer @ ISEA2011 Nuru Ziya Lounge (Photo: Anne Roquigny)

One of the special ISEA2011 Nuru Ziya Lounge guests, Igor Štromajer, discusses the intrinsic and intimate entwinement of the virtual in everyday materiality.
Istanbul, Turkey – 18 September 2011

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@juspar[1] and now quoting Galloway[2]: “Code is the only language that is executable”. Does what it says. #code #chun[3] #netpol1010[4]

@juspar[1] and now quoting Galloway[2]: “Code is the only language that is executable”. Does what it says. #code #chun[3] #netpol1010[4]

by Igor Štromajer (ISEA2011 panel: Voicing Electronic Arts)

Abstract:

0 html – 0 head – 0 title – 3 0 /title – 0 meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content =”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″ – 0 meta http-equiv= “Pragma” content=”no-cache” / – 0 meta name=”robots” content=”index,follow” – 0 script – function clearText (thefield) { if (thefield.default Value==thefield.value) thefield.value = “” } 0 /script – 0 /head – 0 body – 3 0 /body – 0 /html –

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ISEA2011 panel: Voicing Electronic Arts

ISEA2011 panel:
Voicing Electronic Arts
isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/panel/voicing-electronic-arts

The panel will address complexities of voice in the current digital and networked moment of electronic art by bringing to the fore the dynamic relationship between technique and technology and culture, by including theorists and artists in the panel discussion.

Chair: Prof. Norie Neumark
Presenters: Nermin Saybasili, Igor Štromajer, Isabelle Arvers

Date: Friday, 16 September, 2011 (09:00 – 10:30)
Location: Sabanci Center Room 1, Levent