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┗◯✚◯┛ Xmas Edition

◯✚◯ 2019 Xmas Edition

by Igor Štromajer

a=tF²


Pillows, Shower Curtain, Car Mat, Wrapping Paper, Pencil Case, Laptop Sleeve, Table and Desk Lamp, Leggings, Bathroom Towel Set, Ugly Christmas Sweater

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Proto-Art in the Age of Generative Reproduction

Proto-Art in the Age of Generative Reproduction

The matrix creates, the body reproduces. In the trans-gender artifice, art objects are reproductions of the iterations of the matrix — a matrix that uses the body as a parallax to represent ideas, patterns, and emotions. With the rationalization of the electronic environment, the matrix is superseding a point where it will be free from the body to realize immersions into the parameters of the delphic artifice. Work of Proto-Art in the Age of Generative Reproduction contains 10 minimal java engines (also referred to as “memes”) that enable the user to make political audio/visual compositions.

– measuring chains, constructing realities
– putting into place forms
– a matrix of illusion and disillusion
– a strange attracting force
– so that a seduced reality will be able to spontaneously feed on it

Igor Štromajer‘s work investigates the nuances of modulations through the use of slow motion and close-ups which emphasize the generative nature of digital media. Štromajer explores abstract and boring scenery as motifs to describe the idea of cyber-intuitive artifice. Using radical loops, non-linear narratives, and allegorical images as patterns, Štromajer creates meditative environments which suggest the expansion of space…


<– Obligatory ascii sig. Repeat until desired cyborg effect is achieved. –>

/u[0]{)]|]]-] ————-/u/u!@#$%^~!@#$%^&*()) __++_)(*&^%$——–/u/u!@#$%^~!@#$ %^&*())__++_)(*&^%$——–/u/u!@#$ %^~!@#$%^&*())__+, etc., etc.
<– End obligatory ascii sig. –>

● dynamically generated by The Market-O-Matic (1.0) [fine arts version]

 

GFEST 2002

GFEST 2002 – collaborative performance: The Štromy’s Room [archive]

Velenje, September 2002 – The Coal Mining Museum of Slovenia / Muzej premogovništva Slovenije

Štromy’s Room concept, computer programming and animations, graphics and live video projections, live sound mixing and audio sampling: Igor Štromajer

Štromy’s Room performers: Pika Klančnik, Ana Cloe, Lana K. Gotvan, Pedro Saavedra, Neda Hafner

GFEST – a project by Vlado G. Repnik, Robert Klančnik, Igor Štromajer
2002

Main Camera: Robert Klančnik
Second Camera: Tone Stojko
Third Camera: Simon Stojko

– video: PAL 720×576 pixels, 25 fps, Mini DV cassette, raw material / unedited footage
– audio: mic recorded, 192 kbps, 48 kHz, Stereo

Production: GVR Zavod – Institute for Contemporary Arts | babaLAN © 2002
Archive: kid.kibla.org/~intima/hunt

 

White Page Gallery

From October 29th to 31st, 2019, Igor Štromajer‘s a=tF² pixel was featured on Vuk Ćosić‘s legendary and historic website
http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/
as part of the White Page Gallery by Domenico Dom Barra.

Dates: 29OCT2019 – 31OCT2019
Name of the pixel: atf2.png
Size: 1×1 pix
Mode: RGB/8 Bit
Color: #01ffff
Format: png

Documentation: photo + screenshot + page source

Ref.:
www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/wpg/
facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156890161233379
intima.org/vuk/atf2.png

 

FB Cam Face Tracking oo¹

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Facebook camera face tracking effect oo¹

by Igor Štromajer
October 2019

Try it (FB mobile app): facebook.com/fbcameraeffects/tryit/713503482501522

Effect Name: oo¹
ID: 713503482501522

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iintima Telegram Sticker Pack

iintima Telegram Sticker Pack
by Igor Štromajer

Zentrum der Netzkunst / Center of Net Art, Berlin – Telegram residency:
iintima Telegram-sticker pack by Igor @iintima Štromajer

t.me/addstickers/iintima
● netart.berlin/2019/10/14/telegram-residency-2

50 Telegram-stickers made from the deleted intima.org net art works (Expunction, 1996-2007).

“Our memory serves to deceive, to betray us, to misrepresent rather than paint and describe the past.”

Zentrum der Netzkunst, Berlin
www: netart.berlin
Telegram: t.me/ZentrumderNetzkunst
Facebook: facebook.com/ZentrumDerNetzkunst
Twitter: twitter.com/BNetzkunst

all 50 stickers (FB Album)

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I Am (Not Good Enough) / Ich bin (nicht gut genug)


I Am (Not Good Enough)
⠀⠀⠀⠀
I.
⠀⠀⠀⠀
if I were
⠀⠀⠀⠀rich
⠀⠀⠀⠀fast
⠀⠀⠀⠀smart
⠀⠀⠀⠀and younger
⠀⠀⠀⠀
if I had
⠀⠀⠀⠀more time
⠀⠀⠀⠀
if I were
⠀⠀⠀⠀a woman
⠀⠀⠀⠀a Trotskyist
⠀⠀⠀⠀and offline
⠀⠀⠀⠀
if I worked
⠀⠀⠀⠀more
⠀⠀⠀⠀and harder
⠀⠀⠀⠀
if I spoke
⠀⠀⠀⠀better
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀English
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀German
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀and French

⠀⠀⠀⠀I would be
⠀⠀⠀⠀a better artist
⠀⠀⠀⠀
II.
⠀⠀⠀⠀
I have
⠀⠀⠀⠀an infinite
⠀⠀⠀⠀amount of time
I am
⠀⠀⠀⠀completely unreliable
⠀⠀⠀⠀yet fully predictable

I am not
⠀⠀⠀⠀good enough
⠀⠀⠀⠀as an artist
but I am
⠀⠀⠀⠀tolerated
⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀
imnge-1
⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀
Ich bin (nicht gut genug)
⠀⠀⠀⠀
I.
⠀⠀⠀⠀
Wäre ich
⠀⠀⠀⠀reich,
⠀⠀⠀⠀schnell,
⠀⠀⠀⠀klug
⠀⠀⠀⠀und jünger,
hätte ich
⠀⠀⠀⠀mehr Zeit,
wäre ich
⠀⠀⠀⠀eine Frau,
⠀⠀⠀⠀ein Trotzkist,
⠀⠀⠀⠀und offline,
arbeitete ich
⠀⠀⠀⠀mehr
⠀⠀⠀⠀und härter,
spräche ich
⠀⠀⠀⠀besser Englisch, Deutsch und Französisch,

⠀⠀⠀⠀wäre ich
⠀⠀⠀⠀ein besserer Künstler.
⠀⠀⠀⠀
II.
⠀⠀⠀⠀
Ich habe
⠀⠀⠀⠀unendlich
⠀⠀⠀⠀viel Zeit
und bin
⠀⠀⠀⠀komplett unzuverlässig,
⠀⠀⠀⠀aber doch völlig vorhersehbar.
⠀⠀⠀⠀
Ich bin
⠀⠀⠀⠀nicht gut genug
⠀⠀⠀⠀als Künstler.
Toleriert
⠀⠀⠀⠀werde ich.
⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀
imnge-2
⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀
Igor Štromajer, 2019

Special thanks to Kerstin Thürnau


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i2d_uri a=tF²

i2d_uri a=tF²

by Igor Štromajer

image to data URI
base64 encoding
Uniform Resource Identifier

 

i2d_uri

 

Paper Matters

Paper Matters
sales exhibition

15 June – 8 September 2019
UGM Kabinet
UGM Maribor / Maribor Art Gallery

Artists:
Nevena Aleksovski, Urška Alič, Ajda Auer, Maja Babič Košir, Boris Beja, Uršula Berlot, Nenad Cizl, Vesna Drnovšek, Mina Fina, Enej Gala, Ilić, Duša Jesih, Barbara Jurkovšek, Žiga Kariž, Tina Konec, Tanja Lažetić, Polonca Lovšin, Arjan Pregl, Mirjana Rukavina, Anja Seničar, Nina Slejko Blom, Conny Blom, Small but Dangers (Simon Hudolin, Mateja Rojc), Zora Stančič, Gal Šnajder, Igor Štromajer, Miha Štrukelj, Veronika Vesel Potočnik, Sašo Vrabič

Curator: Simona Vidmar

1.

Igor Štromajer: Mathview 7:15 (2019)
DM digital print, puzzle in the box, 266 parts
32,5 x 23 x 3,7 cm (puzzle: 30 x 45 cm)
85 €

2.

Igor Štromajer: & # x 2 5 1 7 ; & # x 2 8 ; & # x 2 5 e f ; & # x 2 6 9 9 ; & # x f e 0 f ; & # x 2 5 e f ; & # x 2 9 ; & # x 2 5 1 b ; (2019)
DM digital print, puzzle in the box, 266 parts
32,5 x 23 x 3,7 cm (puzzle: 30 x 45 cm)
85 €

3.

Igor Štromajer: a=tF² (2019)
DM digital print, puzzle in the box, 266 parts
32,5 x 23 x 3,7 cm (puzzle: 30 x 45 cm)
85 €

Papirnate zadeve so del programa Umetnost na prodaj / Art for Sale v organizaciji Umetnostne galerije Maribor v sodelovanju s Centrom za kreativnost MAO – Muzeja za arhitekturo in oblikovanje.