The Ballettikka Internettikka robots.
(Photo: Dejan Habicht)
Tag: Igor Stromajer
VOICE
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.
Poбo:свадба (Robo:Wedding)
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
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
Huis Clos / No Exit – On Translation
Huis Clos / No Exit – On Translation
Telematic performance with 6 performers
May 29th 2010 8.30 pm
NIMk – Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
PERFORMMIKKA INTERNETTIKKA
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMMIKKA INTERNETTIKKA
nimk.nl/eng/calendar/performmikka-internettikka
29 May 2010
The Netherlands Media Art Institute / Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (NIMk)
doors open 20:00, program begins 20:30
Entrance 5,- (students 3,50)
Please make reservations
An evening with internet/teleperformances by Annie Abrahams, Christophe Bruno, Constant Dullaart, Igor Stromajer and Brane Zorman, focused on the relations between contemporary performance practice and the internet.
With performances by:
Annie Abrahams, Huis Clos : No Exit – On Translation (20:00)
Christophe Bruno, Human Browser
Constant Dullaart, Arranged online moments
Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman, Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka (22:00)
Performmikka Internettikka focuses on recent new possibilities surrounding tele- or internet performance. With the increased speed of internet connections in recent years and the omnipresence of the net, it has not only provided these media artists with inspiration, but also with a platform and a medium. In their work the participating artists respond in various ways to the technical possibilities and limitations of the internet, and to the implications the medium has for content. How does a simultaneous and collective performance being carried out at different places around the world look? What does the delay and distance contribute to the chances and limitations? How does an audience deal with viewing a live ‘event’ with illegal recorded images that are being made at that moment somewhere else in the world? In addition, the artists respond with irony to the Internet as a source of entertainment, and as a capitalist instrument. In short, what does the internet contribute to contemporary performance art practice in terms of inspiration, mediation and as a platform?
APT NM
BI Insecttikka Test
Testing two new autonomous robotic toy bugs/insects (guerrilla intruders / silent invaders) with mechanical and magnetic sensors, equipped with wireless micro camera. Possible result: Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka, May 2010, Amsterdam.
Pasatiempo, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Ballettikka Internettikka (Internet Ballet / Aeronauttikka by Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman) on the cover of Pasatiempo – The New Mexican’s Weekly Magazine of Arts, Entertainment and Culture, March 12-18, 2010 (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)
intima.org · Igor Štromajer 