Make Love, Not Art.
by Igor Štromajer
[Selected Press Links]
Por: Roberta Bosco y Stefano Caldana
El Pais, 12 de marzo de 2012
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Make Love, Not Art.
Igor Štromajer
Make Love, Not Art.*
* Jebe & #353; umetnost.
Prevod: Jure Novak
Exhibition: Expunction
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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)
33#pp – Found Art
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Found Art by Igor Štromajer
Copenhagen 1973 – Hamburg 2012
transmediale 2012: web video – the new net art?
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 at transmediale 2012
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
Current Art Practices on Time and Technology
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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Au portail du musée
“Le Slovène Igor Stromajer va plus loin avec Expunction, où il a mis en scène, de mai à juin, la suppression de ses œuvres en ligne devenues inactives, qu’il démonte en expliquant leur création et leur environnement technique. Elles sont ensuite mises à disposition dans une archive téléchargeable. La création est là conservée mais tronquée, isolée du monde virtuel auquel elle répondait.”
http://www.liberation.fr/culture/01012380557-au-portail-du-musee
Au portail du musée
Par Sophian Fanen, Liberation, 31. décembre 2011
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
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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