Project Room: The Black Box Museum Project / Memoria
Curated by Milan Tutunović
Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain à Sète – Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée / CRAC – Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, France
5 November 2010 – 30 January 2011
Designed by MaLa MҼLi
Igor Štromajer: OMISSIVE ART – www.intima.org/blackboxmemo
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A História é Clandestina
(Stealth Stories)
A collaborative technological performance initiated by Eunice Gonçalves Duarte. Will be first performed in Lisbon, Portugal, 28 October 2010.
“How, after all, do you write a history of a ‘consciousness’? How do you write a history for something that escapes easy definition, has no discernable boundaries, and operates on the principle of reflection (how, for example, do you separate a photograph from what it’s of or from the unfolding context of its reception)? How do you invent a voice (or voices) for this history that can speak to photography’s emotional effects as well as its physical and formal characteristics and economic and political ramifications?”
Geoffrey Batchen
Image designed by VEL Z
VOICE
Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media
Edited by Norie Neumark, Ross Gibson and Theo Van Leeuwen
The MIT Press, U.S.A.
Voice has returned to both theoretical and artistic agendas. In the digital era, techniques and technologies of voice have provoked insistent questioning of the distinction between the human voice and the voice of the machine, between genuine and synthetic affect, between the uniqueness of an individual voice and the social and cultural forces that shape it. This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on these topics from history, philosophy, cultural theory, film, dance, poetry, media arts, and computer games. Many chapters demonstrate Lewis Mumford’s idea of the “cultural preparation” that precedes technological innovation—that socially important new technologies are foreshadowed in philosophy, the arts, and everyday pastimes.
Chapters cover such technologies as voice mail, podcasting, and digital approximations of the human voice. A number of authors explore the performance, performativity, and authenticity (or ‘authenticity effect’) of voice in dance, poetry, film, and media arts; while others examine more immaterial concerns—the voice’s often-invoked magical powers, the ghostliness of disembodied voices, and posthuman vocalization. The chapters evoke an often paradoxical reassertion of the human in the use of voice in mainstream media including recorded music, films, and computer games.
Norie Neumark analyzes and writes about the Oppera Teorettikka Internettikka by Igor Štromajer.
Oppera Internettikka – Poбo:свадба (Robo:Wedding)
Robotic Wedding
Project by Igor Štromajer
Part of the 5th AKTO Festival for Contemporary Arts
11-15 August 2010, Bitola, MK
Curated by Filip Jovanovski
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Poбo:свадба – Video Installation
This video represents a part of the Poбo:свадба installation, exhibited in the House of Officers (Oficerski dom) in Bitola, MK, during the 5th AKTO Festival for Contemporary Arts.
Video by Igor Štromajer
Audio by The Conet Project
“Bourgeois marriage is, in reality, a system of wives in common and thus, at the most, what the Communists might possibly be reproached with is that they desire to introduce, in substitution for a hypocritically concealed, an openly legalized system of free love. For the rest, it is self-evident that the abolition of the present system of production must bring with it the abolition of free love springing from that system, i.e., of prostitution both public and private.”
(Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Manifesto of the Communist Party, 1848)
Poбo:свадба (Robo:Wedding) Video Installation in Bitola (Photo: AKTO)
Dialogi št. 5-6 10
(avgust 2010)
DNEVNIK
Bojana Kunst in Igor Štromajer:
Hamburški dnevnik
http://www.aristej.si/slo/dialogi
Založba Aristej, Maribor, Slovenija
Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka
by Igor Štromajer and Brane Zorman
www.intima.org/bi/ins
C3K44XE, Hamburg, Amsterdam, 29 May 2010
Huis Clos / No Exit – On Translation
Telematic performance with 6 performers
May 29th 2010 8.30 pm
NIMk – Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka, 29 May 2010
(C3K44XE, Amsterdam, Hamburg)
Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka
(Internet Ballet)
www.intima.org/bi/ins
by Igor Štromajer and Brane Zorman
Saturday, 29 May 2010 at 22:00 (Amsterdam/Berlin/Paris Local Time)
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
Live Internet Broadcast
– authors and performers: Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman
– theoretical adviser: Bojana Kunst
– live sound (manipulated and performed) by MC Brane Vs BeitThron
– live video edited by Igor Štromajer
Co-produced by the Netherlands Media Art Institute (Nederlands Instituut Voor Mediakunst), Amsterdam (www.nimk.nl), Intima Virtual Base – Institute for Contemporary Arts (www.intima.org) and Cona Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia (www.cona.si), May 2010.
Ballettikka Internettikka is a series of tactical art projects which began in 2001. It explores wireless Internet ballet performances combined with guerrilla tactics and mobile live Internet broadcasting strategies. After invading the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (2002), La Scala in Milan (2004), the National Theatre in Belgrade (2005), Volksbühne in Berlin (2006), the City Hall and Lippo Centre in Hong Kong (2007), a construction site in Seoul (2008), the Norwegian island Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean (2008), the Japanese island Minami Torishima in the Pacific Ocean (2009) and other institutions, places and their concepts. Štromajer and Zorman are now preparing a new Internet ballet – Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka, performing and broadcasting live from the coded location C3K44XE in Hamburg. The live event will be broadcast to the public at the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, and on the Internet at:
www.intima.org/bi/ins
In the Port of Hamburg, at the micro location C3K44XE, Stromajer and Zorman will release two micro robotic bugs: two artificial autonomous robotic toy insects (based on the HexBug Alpha and HexBug Bravo platforms), equipped with mechanical and electronic sensors and with two wireless waterproof night vision micro spy-cameras, let loose to commit a parallel suicide (the third, invisible micro robotic bug, equipped with the same camera, will observe the situation from a distance).
Both of the robotic bugs are programmed only to commit suicide – at the same time (with up to +/- 5 seconds time tolerance) – but not how to do it. Their intelligent decision-making electronic system will allow them to select the method of their simultaneous death.
Visitors of the Performmikka Internettikka event in Amsterdam and visitors on-line will be able to monitor the robotic bugs’ path to death, and their final decision.
How will the robotic insects decide? Autonomously or politically?
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