MKC Maribor – Kulturni inkubator / Cultural Incubator
Maribor, Slovenia
Intima Virtual Base – 23 May 2008
MKC Maribor – Kulturni inkubator / Cultural Incubator
Maribor, Slovenia
Intima Virtual Base – 23 May 2008
Yet to Come? On possibilities and impossibilities of resistance (Se bo še zgodilo? O možnostih in nezmožnostih odpora); article by Bojana Kunst (Ballettikka Internettikka), Maska, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Vol. XXIII, N. 113-114, Spring (15 May) 2008
(article about Intima Virtual Base)
Ballettikka Internettikka Hydraullikka
Eros-Thanatos RoboBallet
by Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman
Les Rencontres Internationales, Madrid (Plaza del Rey, 10 May 2008 at 10 PM)
Pressing, flattening and grinding two fragile robots-in-love by merciless heavy hydraulic press machine.
Ballettikka Internettikka Hydraullikka
by Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman
[preparations/testing]
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– watch the video (final result)
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Hydraulic press 6300kN (800 tons) / April 2008 Testing: pressing two Silverlit R/C Program-a-BOT robots (32 programmable, sound sensor, intelligent sensors detects obstacles, communicates)
(Hydraulic Press Manufacturer: Mossini, 2001)
Hydraulic Press Owner: Gorenje Toolmaking
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Special thanks to
Gorenje Group, Velenje, Slovenia – www.gorenje.com
Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF); Cleotronica: Festival for Media, Art, and Socio-Culture; Alexandria, Egypt
– Exhibition opening: 1 May 2008
– Symposium: 1 and 2 May 2008
Curator: Bassam El Baroni
– Exhibiting and presenting: The Netherlands is respectful. Russia is corrupt. (Igor Stromajer), Ballettikka Internettikka Stattikka (I. Stromajer & Brane Zorman) and Intima Virtual Base

Spike Art; Antje Mayer & Sebastian Fasthuber, Spike Art Quarterly Kunstmagazin, Vienna, Austria / Berlin, Germany, N.15, Spring / March 2008
Ljubljana, Capital Village
On art and culture of the Slovenian capital. By Antje Mayer
Ljubljana, Dorfmetropole
Über die Kunst- und Kulturszene der slowenischen Hauptstadt. Von Antje Mayer
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– Swimming in the sea, with your passport in your mouth / Mit dem Reisepass im Mund durchs Meer
– statement: A normal country with normal problems / Ein gewöhnliches Land mit gewöhnlichen Problemen
(Kontakt – The Arts and Civil Society Program of Erste Bank Group)
(article about Intima Virtual Base)
Ballettikka Internettikka Olymppikka
Guerrilla Net RoboBallet Performance
by Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman
low-res preview | hi-res DVD available
– watch the video (YouTube)
24 March 2008
At the same time that the official 2008 Olympic Torch is being kindled by the light of the Sun (Olympia, Greece), Štromajer & Zorman are digitally igniting a robot with computer software.
Le Net social mis à nu par ses artistes, même; Valérie Nescop (RoboMarseillaise), Poptronics, Paris, France, 21.03.2008
(article about Intima Virtual Base)