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ax³+bx²+cx+d=0

7 post-blockchain NFCs (non-fungible cubes irl), hand-converted from a 1996 animated gif

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The NFC, 2022
post-blockchain NFC (non-fungible cube)
anodized titanium and aluminium
cube: 1 cm³, platform: 2 cm²
edition of 7

1) In 1996, Štromajer used an animated gif (64⨯64 pixels) of a spinning cube in his first net art work 0.html.

2) 25 years later, Sakrowski redesigned this iconic file into an augmented reality artwork.

3) In February 2022, Štromajer produced seven post-blockchain NFCs (non-fungible cubes) from the original gif.

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↝ Štromajer, 1996

AR Cube.Zero ↝ Sakrowski
(Štromajer Sakrowski), 2021
3000 xDai, edition of 3

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A cubic function is a function of the form ƒ(x)=ax³+bx²+cx+d where the coefficients a, b, c and d are complex numbers, and the variable x takes real values, and a≠0. It is both a polynomial function of degree three, and a real function. Setting ƒ(x)=0 produces a cubic equation of the form ax³+bx²+cx+d=0.
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Controlling_Connectivity – Ten Years After

Controlling_Connectivity
Ten Years After
Artists Talk: Gretta Louw, Igor Štromajer

Art Laboratory Berlin (ALB)
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
8 pm CET

Curators: Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz
Videography: Tuçe Erel

In context of Vorspiel | transmediale 2022 Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to a conversation with artists Gretta Louw and Igor Štromajer based on Louw’s radical 10 day online performance at ALB in 2011.

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35th Stuttgarter Filmwinter

35th Stuttgart Filmwinter — Festival for Expanded Media
Stuttgart, 7–16 January 2022

Media in Space & Network Culture
Expanded Media Exhibition
Projektraum Kunstverein Wagenhalle, Stuttgart

TOGETHER
a festival for all and none

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Igor Štromajer participating with 3¦×Fń–Qé3 = Mià+ • eight computer/procedurally-generated post-¹, proto-², algorithmic, meta-pop³ pseudo-songs • video set

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3¦×Fń–Qé3 = Mià+ is a procedurally generated meta-pop music and video set by Igor Štromajer and his computers, both sung and performed by them. The lyrics for the songs were code extracted from jpeg images and converted into texts. The music was procedurally/computer-generated using various algorithms and applications that automatically converted the lyrics to music (text-to-music) and combined the resulting music with the sung lyrics. In the same process, the lyrics themselves became singable, they were given melodies (text-to-singing).

Expanded Media Podcast • Text/Concept: Sara Dahme, Music/Mix: Michael Fiedler • Network Culture 5: 3¦×Fń–Qé3 = Mià+

↑ 3¦×Fń–Qé3 = Mià+ (Projektraum Kunstverein Wagenhalle, Stuttgart)
Photo: Daniela Wolf

Projektraum Kunstverein Wagenhalle, Stuttgart
Photo: Daniela Wolf

↑ 3¦×Fń–Qé3 = Mià+ (Projektraum Kunstverein Wagenhalle, Stuttgart)

Videos:

1. ×kX‹-+Ô[ô |Ń‚xăö9 (3:59)
2. ×›lëśßwp^Ů ßc W (3:22)
3. -ľH°¦Y˙7y=¹^=Q _-Můě (3:44)
4. éOŁs=•üVz˙ Ľ‚;z—xľ,? (2:23)
5. 9ç†°¬ý3÷ °¬ 1É ›‘i (4:00)
6. Hh…og“mS~ÍÖÎ¸ŐZ» (2:39)
7. Éc Ö=ě ŢĘS÷…O‚ ü (3:26)
8. ¦¬+ 2g™-.Ä Š›ó weX (4:00)

The Large Glass

The Large Glass
Journal of Contemporary Art, Culture and Theory
Големото стакло

The New Reality
No. 31/32, December 2021
Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje
Музеј на современата уметност Скопје

In this issue:
“Igor Štromajer: a=tF² · To find the art (a), you multiply the time (t) by the square of the force (F)”

This volume of the The Large Glass compares various contributions on ‘The new reality’, a reality, which has been shaped by events throughout 2020 and 2021. Starting from the early period of the pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns, closed borders coupled with forms of social antagonism, struggles, discrimination and exclusion of people from economic activity and political participation, as well as the ongoing climate emergency and ecological destruction. This challenging context not only creates a political emergency, but also an artistic state of emergency.

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Qé3 [poetry]

3¦×Fń–Qé3= Miá+
[algorithmic poetry]
December 2021 edition

33 computer-generated and computer-read (TTS) poems by Igor Štromajer and his computers

• read in Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish language

3¦×Fń–Qé3= Miá+
-oµ4× [pdf]
one hundred and one poems co-written by a human and a machine

other versions (txt, audio, video, etc.)

One-Off Moving Image Festival 2021

4^th One-Off Moving Image Festival
7–14 November 2021
Noemata, Valencia (Spain) + Gol (Norway) + online

• One-second movies, off takes, and 60 seconds movies on the theme ‘After Is Now’
• One-Off Festival is part of The Wrong biennale nº5 (1 November 2021 – 1 March 2022), the movies are screened on the One-Off channel at The Wrong TV
• 11–18 November 2021 ⇢ AOS – arebyte on screen