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by Igor Štromajer
2014 – 2025
· new entries, April 2025
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Unicode poems in Zagreb
3¦×Fñ-Qé3=Mià+
one hundred and one poems co-written by a human and a machine
📍 Booksa / Kulturtreger
Thursday, 13 March 2025 at 19:30
Martićeva 14D, Zagreb
· in collaboration with Format C / Hacklab01 / MaMa
The Zagreb launch of the latest collection of computer-generated poems by Igor Štromajer and his computers took place on Thursday, 13 March 2025 at 19:30 at Booksa – in collaboration with Format C / Hacklab01 / MaMa.
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by Igor Štromajer
HTML · JavaScript, 2025
solo exhibition
1 March – 1 June 2025
Wi-Fi Gallery grey) (area
St. Mark’s Square, Korčula, Croatia
Curator: Darko Fritz
· galerija siva) (zona
· ten Unicode poems co-written by a human and a machine
Total Screen Time, Berlin
Total Screen Time – Brainrot
— group show · a one-night exhibition on phones
panke.gallery, Berlin
Saturday, 1 February 2025
18:00 – 21:00
· curated by Aram Bartholl and Socrates Stamatatos
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Igor Štromajer participates with the work:
auto.function } .client a=tF² () else.if
(2025)
Unicode poems in Berlin
3¦×Fñ-Qé3=Mià+
one hundred and one poems co-written by a human and a machine
/rosa – Zentrum für Netzkunst
Friday, 24 January 2025 at 6 pm
Heidelberger Str. 28, 12059 Berlin, Alt-Treptow/Neukölln
The Berlin launch of the latest collection of computer-generated poems by Igor Štromajer and his computers took place on Friday, 24 January 2025 at 6 pm at /rosa – Zentrum für Netzkunst, a Berlin project space specializing in reconstructing, archiving, contextualizing, maintaining and preserving net art and net culture.
The poems were generated between 2013 and 2018 by semi-automatic conversion of .jpg and .gif image files from the author’s deleted net art works [1996-2007; 2011] into text form using the Unicode Encoding Standard.
The Berlin presentation was organized with the kind support of the Slovenian Cultural Information Center SKICA Berlin.
· published by KIBLA, Maribor, November 2024
· Zentrum für Netzkunst Berlin
press · artKIT
↑ Televizija Slovenija · TVS 1 · Kultura · 27/11/2024 · Petra Skok
↑ TVS · Tele M · Kultura · 26/11/2024 · Petra Skok
book · 3¦×Fń–Qé3+
Igor Štromajer
3¦×Fń–Qé3=Miá+
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one hundred and one poems
co-written by a human and a machine
The poems were generated between 2013 and 2018 by semi-automatic conversion of .jpg and .gif image files from the author’s deleted net art works [1996-2007; 2011] into text form using the Unicode Encoding Standard.
Kibla, Maribor, 2024
112 pages
softcover, thread-sewn
The joint library of ZKM | Center for Art and Media and the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) – Katalog der Bibliothek von ZKM und HfG Karlsruhe:
➠ ZKM Online-Catalog (OPAC)
Acquisition: since March 2025, the book has been part of the permanent collection of the Maribor Art Gallery.
You’re a human and you can’t read Unicode poems by yourself? No worries, sit back and relax, the computer does it for you.
Igor Štromajer, co-poet · sopesnik · Mitdichter
· contact: igor [at] netzkunst [dot] berlin
publisher
ACE KIBLA
Maribor, 2024
represented by
Peter Tomaž Dobrila
TOX Edition, Vol. 29, Nr. 78
ISBN 978-961-6304-56-6
UDC 821.163.6-1
human texts revision
Danica Zlatar, Emil Pečnik
design and layout
Joško Bohunsky
producer
Peter Lubej
print
Demago
500 copies
support
The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
Municipality of Maribor
Koda Modro
X-OP
The publication is part of the project 3¦×Fń–Qé3= Miá+ (2012-2024).
artKIT · 3¦×Fń–Qé3+
Igor Štromajer
3¦×Fń–Qé3=Miá+
-oµ4×
solo show
22 November 2024 – 11 January 2025
artKIT
· opening: Friday, 22 November at 18.00
1. Exhibition
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Štromajer exhibits random objects that the electric poet needs for his work, as well as parts of machines and defunct computer equipment that processed the Unicode poems and contributed to the creation of the book. The author’s basic premise is that (para/non)art resides not only in the idea, in the concept, i.e. not only in the nominal and the declared, in itself, but equally in the tools and machines that produce it. The machines that generate it are an indispensable part of it.
3¦×Fń-Qé3=Miá+ is part of Štromajer‘s years-long process of dedigitalization, from the deletion of his net art works in 2011 to the present, because the only way to liberate ourselves from feudal techno-capitalism is through collective and total dedigitalization.
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2. Book · Collection of Poems
The centerpiece of the exhibition is a book of one hundred and one poems co-written by a human and a machine. The poems were generated between 2013 and 2018 by semi-automatic conversion of .jpg and .gif image files from the author’s deleted net art works [1996-2007; 2011] into text form using the Unicode Encoding Standard.
➠ artKIT, Glavni trg 14, Maribor
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday from 15:00 to 19:00, Saturday from 10:00 to 13:00
↓ photos from the opening, 22 November 2024
📷 Janez Klenovšek / KIBLA
Expunction · IZIS
IZIS – 12th Festival of Audiovisual and New Media Art 2024
JUST CONTROL – group show
Libertas, Koper
opening: 4 October 2024
exhibition: 5-20 October 2024
curator: Irena Borić
Igor Štromajer:
Expunction, 2000 · 2011 · 2024
On March 13, 2000, net non-artist Igor Štromajer programmed the first known artwork for UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) cell phones, which used the then standard WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) to access the Internet. The title of the work was wap.sonnet – microbe.4/wap.art, and among the 30 other files that made up the whole, it included a file called ctrl.base.wml (1.29 kB), which was responsible for controlling and managing the net art work.
On May 16, 2011, as part of the ritual deletion of his net art works called Expunction, the author deleted the entire wap.sonnet of 17 kB from his intima.org server, and with it also the ctrl.base.wml file.
intima.org · Igor Štromajer 