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Transmittance #2

Transmittance #2
Telematic performance by Maja Delak & Luka Prinčič / Wanda & Nova deViator.

13 December 2011 at The Gallery 001, Tobačna Factory, Ljubljana
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Igor Štromajer participating as: Online Agent

Transmittance explores collaboration which is local, global, networked and broadcasted. It involves an artistic group of performers, visual artists, musicians and computer programmers to research performative possibilities of streaming, broadcasting and telepresence forging new types of performance and audience. With focus on critical and socially-aware artistic languages this work is based on asking questions about body, self and society – opening non-dualistic perspectives.

Transmittance is available as research, educational and/or performance model including a preparation time and performance event that is streamed on-line.

Production: Emanat

http://transmittance.si

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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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Ballettikka Internettikka Antarcttikka

Ballettikka Internettikka Antarcttikka
by Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman
14 – 20 November 2011
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All We Want From You Are Your Political Fantasies

All We Want From You Are Your Political Fantasies
by Igor Štromajer, 2011

[VIDEO] www.intima.org/3060908

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