Is this Art? Is this Life?

I have two questions:
Is this Art? Is this Life?

Igor Štromajer, 2011

Ballettikka Internettikka SubAquattikka

Ballettikka Internettikka SubAquattikka
Authors and Performers: Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman

Thursday, 23 September 2010
From 11 AM to 6 PM at Ljubljana ZOO, Slovenia (focus from 3 PM to 5 PM)

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BI SubAquattikka Tests

Ballettikka Internettikka SubAquattikka
Tests by Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman
Intima / Cona, September 2010

Testing a 7 cm (3 inch) long, radio controlled submarine. Excellent maneuvering capabilities!

(Photo: !gor. Š.) / Flickr Album

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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

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)

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BI Insecttikka Video

Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka
by Igor Štromajer and Brane Zorman

www.intima.org/bi/ins
C3K44XE, Hamburg, Amsterdam, 29 May 2010

Vimeo Video

+ YouTube Video

Pasatiempo, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Ballettikka Internettikka (Internet Ballet / Aeronauttikka by Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman) on the cover of PasatiempoThe New Mexican’s Weekly Magazine of Arts, Entertainment and Culture, March 12-18, 2010 (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)

+ read more (inside)

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For Action’s Sake

“For Action’s Sake”
at the Santa Fe Complex; Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Manipulated Image #11: First Year Anniversary Celebration

15 video artists from 10 countries | Online performances from Hamburg and Sweden | Performances by 12 local artists

Friday, March 12, 2010; 6:30pm – 11pm
Tickets: $10 (includes food and reception)
Read more: manipulatedimage.com/MI11.html
+ Download the PDF catalogue of the event (1 MB)

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Education Through Art Practices

The Education Through Art Practices project establishes different forms of work and thought. Rethinking the status of education, especially its role within artistic creation, is today crucial, since we often notice that artistic creation is product-oriented and that it does not allow any space for research nor, consequently, learning through research. In order to create new forms and establish the conditions for different thought, we need to encourage research and establish situations that allow an open, but critical debate. A network of experts in various fields potentially makes possible the creation of a platform as a testing ground for thought, creation, questioning one’s own position and “the value of an artwork” and, last but not least, an opportunity to create new forms and approaches to artistic creation.

Bojana Kunst and Igor Štromajer
INTIMATE PROTOCOLS
1 March 2010, CD, M3/M4
2 and 3 March 2010, CD, M3/M4
3.00 p.m. – 8.00 p.m.

Technological procedures today directly affect our bodies and the ways we experience closeness and intimacy. We will create a situation for a networked performance in which we will focus especially on the connection between technology and emotions, desire and connectivity. We can say we live in the time of the decline of discursive protocols and the increase of material ones. Instead of discursive negotiations, we perform technical procedures that immediately influence THE way we experience proximity, closeness and intimacy.

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The Thursday Club, London

The Thursday Club Presents

Igor Štromajer:
Intima Virtual Base (presentation, artist talk)

Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre, Ben Pimlott Building
Thursday, 18 February 2010 at 6.30pm
Goldsmiths Digital Studios, Goldsmiths College, University of London SE14 6NW, UK

The work of Ballettikka Internettikka is also featured in an essay by Bojana Kunst published in Interfaces of Performance. Now available from Ashgate Publishing is the book Interfaces of Performance, edited by Maria Chatzichristodoulou (University of Hull), Janis Jefferies (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Rachel Zerihan (Queen Mary, University of London).

turbulence.org/blog/2010/02/14/live-stage-ballettikka-internettikka-london

For more information on how to get to Goldsmiths:
www.gold.ac.uk/find-us