I Am Not Good Enough

I Am Not Good Enough
by Igor Štromajer, 2013

“If I had more time, I would be a better artist.”

“If I were rich, I would be a better artist.”

“If I were a woman, I would be a better artist.”

“If more of my friends were curators and art critics, I would be a better artist.”

+ new statements added regularly

 

Filed under: Actions, Artist, Igor Stromajer, intima

Die Liebe

Title: Die Liebe [Love]
Author: Igor Štromajer
Year: 2013
Type: non-interactive image without sound
URL: www.intima.org/dieliebe

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24 hrs live streaming – still image (static JPEG) without sound
START: Wednesday, 24 April 2013 at 7 PM Paris/Berlin time
END: Thursday, 25 April 2013 at 7 PM Paris/Berlin time

Filed under: Actions, Die Liebe, Igor Stromajer, intima

EMAF 2013

Igor Štromajer at EMAF 2013 (European Media Art Festival) in Osnabrück:
Saturday, 27 April 2013

talk/presentation

Omissive Art
a=tF²
by Igor Štromajer

1. Statement:

Omissive Art (Unterlassungskunst) is an active creative process of being passive. The most radical artistic action an artist can do today, is the one he/she does not do. Therefore, my basic mission is not to do art. That is, to do art, by not doing it. The only artistic value of my art is the absence of art. Therefore I call: Make love, not art!

2. Equation:

a=tF²

To find the art, you multiply the time by the square of the force.

3. Related Quotations:

“I don’t want it to be essentially the same – I want it to be exactly the same. Because the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.” Andy Warhol

“I have nothing to say and I’m saying it. The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all.” John Cage

“I have no special message. I wish I did. It would be great if I had one.” Andy Warhol

4. False Examples:

Expunction – deleting net art works: www.intima.org/expunction

Ego Massage: www.intima.org/ego-massage

0§n 3Šé×F= Miá: www.intima.org/miat

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Filed under: Exhibitions, EMAF, European Media Art Festival, Igor Stromajer

WJ-S Performances @ Galerie des Ecluses, Paris

WJ-S PERFOMANCES
Galerie des Ecluses, Paris
13 Rue des Ecluses-Saint-Martin, Paris 75010, France
Tuesday, 19 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

For one week, artists from around the world have been testing the new REMOTE WJ-S MIXER. They have been taking over our computers in Paris. Join us for a DEMO to discover this new project, projected on the three windows of the Gallery des Ecluses in Paris.
The REMOTE WJ-S MIXER is a virtual platform, developed by James Hudson, running as a cloud service, allowing an international online community of artists to control screens at a distance, and create web performances which are projected into the public space.

WJ-S Author: Anne Roquigny

With:

Maia Grotepass – Cape Town, ZA
Michaël Borras a.k.a Systaime – Limoges, FR
Chloé Desmoineaux – Bourges, FR
Ivan Vollet – Strasbourg, FR
Maja Kalogera – Zagreb, CRO
Ana-Maria Huluban – Cluj, CRO
Caroline Delieutraz – Paris, FR
Sakrowski – Berlin, DE
Faith Holland – New York, USA
Paula Vélez – London, UK
Harbada Lucian – Cluj, RO
Isabelle Arvers – Marseille, FR
Igor Štromajer – Frankfurt, DE
Pierre Piccon – Strasbourg, FR

Filed under: Actions, Anne Roquigny, Galerie des Ecluses, Igor Stromajer, intima, wj-s

Unsitely Aesthetics

Surface Tension Supplement No. 6
Unsitely Aesthetics: Uncertain Practices in Contemporary Art

Edited and with text by Maria Miranda.

Unsitely Aesthetics seeks to address the unconventional ways in which contemporary art is made and engaged with across the vastly expanded networks of new media culture, arguing–counterintuitively–that network culture not only embodies its own version of “situatedness” but can also lead to the creation of a more democratic art, with the Internet acting as a far broader public space than the traditional site-specificity of old, a space in which artists can encounter and perhaps even engender new publics for their work. The book aims to theorize current dynamics in media and sound art practice, and includes interviews and conversations with Barbara Campbell, Linda Carroli, Hugh Davies, Bec Dean, Renate Ferro, John Craig Freeman, Jo-Anne Green, Teri Hoskin, Lucas Ihlein, Yao Jui-Chung, kanarinka (a.k.a. Catherine D’Ignazio), Scott Kildall, Deborah Kelly, Natalie Loveless, Michael Takeo Magruder, Timothy Conway Murray, Norie Neumark, Victoria Scott, Brooke Singer, Igor Štromajer, Helen Thorington and Darren Tofts.

www.unsitelyaesthetics.com

Ballettikka Internettikka @ unsitelyaesthetics.com

Publisher: Errant Bodies Press, Berlin
Spring 2013
Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780982743980

Igor Štromajer interviewed by Dr Norie Neumark.

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- amazon.com

Filed under: Texts, Barbara Campbell, Bec Dean, Brooke Singer, Catherine D’Ignazio, Darren Tofts, Deborah Kelly, Errant, Helen Thorington, Hugh Davies, Igor Stromajer, Jo-Anne Green, John Craig Freeman, kanarinka, Linda Carroli, Lucas Ihlein, Maria Miranda, Michael Takeo Magruder, Natalie Loveless, Norie Neumark, Renate Ferro, Scott Kildall, Teri Hoskin, Timothy Conway Murray, Unsitely Aesthetics, Victoria Scott, Yao Jui-Chung

Ego Massage (Ceci n’est pas de l’art)

Ego Massage
(Ceci n’est pas de l’art)

143 images, automatically (and fast: max 30 sec per image) created by Igor Štromajer, using:
- funny.pho.to
- picjoke.net
- photo505.com
- photofacefun.com
- loonapix.com/effector
- deefunia.com/en/funny/page/1
- funny.org.in/photo-fun.php?page=1

“I don’t want it to be essentially the same – I want it to be exactly the same. Because the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.” Andy Warhol

“I have nothing to say and I’m saying it. The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all.” John Cage

“I have no special message. I wish I did. It would be great if I had one.” Andy Warhol

“Make love, not art.” Igor Štromajer

www.intima.org/ego-massage

2012–2013

Filed under: Actions, Exhibitions, Ego Massage, Igor Stromajer, intima

0§ń–M=5¦é× $iᆠ– Blank_Protest – Maska

Igor Štromajer
0§ń–M=5¦é× $iá†

On the project: Blank_Protest.
Maska Journal, Gestures of Resistance, Vol. XXVII, No. 151–151, Winter 2012, p. 98–105, editor: Martina Ruhsam.
Details + PDF: http://bit.ly/WYuZrk
Reference: www.intima.org/miat

Filed under: Texts, geste odpora, gesture, Igor Stromajer, Martina Ruhsam, Maska, resistance

NET ART – WJ-SPOTS#2: MCD#69

New Publication: MCD#69
NET ART – WJ-SPOTS#2
Les artistes s’emparent du réseau / Artists take over the network

Launching:
Thursday, 13 December 2012, 7 PM
La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris; with Isabelle Arvers & Anne Laforet

Guest Chief Editor: Anne Roquigny
Editorial Editor: Anne-Cécile Worms
Chief Editor: Laurent Diouf

With the participation of:
ALEJO DUQUE // ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO //ANDRÈS LOZANO a.k.a. Loz ANA CARVALHO // ATAU TANAKA // AYMERIC MANSOUX // BRAD TROEMEL // BRIAN MACKERN // CARL.Y & LABOITEBLANCHE (((NOMUSIC))) // CHRISTIANE PAUL // CONSTANT DULLART // DANIIL (DANJA) VASILIEV // DAPHNE DRAGONA // DAVID BLAIR // DEAN WHITBREAD // DOMENICO QUARANTA // EVAN ROTH // FRANCK ANCEL // GEERT LOVINK // GENCO GÜLAN // GÉRALDINE GOMEZ // GORDAN SAVIÇIC // GWENOLA WAGON/STÉPHANE DEGOUTIN // HANS BERNHARD // HEATH BUNTING // I-WEI LI // IGOR ŠTROMAJER // JEAN-BAPTISTE BAYLE // JEAN-PAUL FOURMENTRAUX // JODI // JULIEN LEVESQUE // JULIEN OTTAVI // KAREN DERMINEUR (KRN) // MAGRÉT ELISABET ÓLAFSDÓTTIR // MAJA KALOGERA // MARIA PTQK // MARIE PETIT // MICHAËL SELLAM // MILTOS MANETAS // MINDAUGAS GAPŠEVIČIUS// NICOLAS MALEVÉ // PAULA PERISSINOTTO // PEDRO SOLER // PER PLATOU // RAPHAEL BASTIDE & YANNICK ANTOINE // REYNALD DROUHIN // RICARDO MBARKHO // SAKROWSKI // SHU LEA CHEANG // STANZA // STÉPHAN BARRON // THOMAS CHENESEAU // THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD // YVES BERNARD

Filed under: Texts, Anne Laforet, Anne Roquigny, Anne-Cécile Worms, Isabelle Arvers, La Gaîté Lyrique, Laurent Diouf, MCD#69, net art, wj-spots

infoMAMA – Almost Spring

Almost Spring / 100 Years of Slovene Art
Group Exhibition | Major overview of Slovene art of the XX and XXI centuries
Maribor Art Gallery UGM l Umetnostna galerija Maribor
30 November 2012 – 24 February 2013

Curators: Breda Kolar Sluga and Simona Vidmar

Igor Štromajer participating with infoMAMA, inter-media installation, 2004

Filed under: Exhibitions, Almost Spring, Breda Kolar Sluga, Igor Stromajer, infoMAMA, intima, Maribor Art Gallery, Simona Vidmar, Skoraj pomlad, UGM, Umetnostna galerija Maribor

0§ń–3¦é×F= MiᆠInternational

0§ń–3¦é×F=Miá†
TTS – Text to Speech {8 Machine-Reading Files}

DEUTSCH, ENGLISH, ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, PORTUGUÊS, РУССКИЙ,
汉语, 日本語

Filed under: Actions, Texts, eBook, Igor Stromajer, intima

BELA TEHNIKA : ČRNA MAGIJA

BELA TEHNIKA : ČRNA MAGIJA | WHITE GOODS : BLACK MAGIC

Dom kulture Velenje, 24. November 2012, 8 pm

Filed under: Actions, Bela tehnika crna magija, Igor Stromajer, Janko Mandić, Lado Jakša, Martina Ruhsam, Robert Klančnik, Rok Golob, Simon Kardum, Stefan Doepner, Velenje, Vlado G. Repnik, White goods black magic

This Book Is Made for Readin’

This Book Is Made for Readin’!
No time to read it by yourself? Don’t worry, the computer can read it for you:

24 Hours Live TTS eReading – 24 Hours Live Internet AudioTXT Broadcast:
www.intima.org/0sn-3iexfemiat
START: 5 November 2012 at 00:01 GMT/UTC
END: 6 November 2012 at 00:01 GMT/UTC

[+] computer reads 0§ñ–3¦é×F= Miá†, [+] new ebook by Igor Štromajer: live, using TTS (Text-to-Speech) software

Filed under: Actions, Texts, eBook, ereader, ereading, Igor Stromajer, intima, Kobo, text-to-speech, tts

The Potential Of Erasing

Liberating Ireversible Deletions: Art, Plasticity And Memory
Text by Pia Brezavšček
Translated by Sunčan Stone

Selected excerpts about Expunction – a project by Igor Štromajer, 2011

The complete text (p. 152-157; including all the footnotes, references etc) can be found in: MASKA Performing Arts Journal, Vol. XXVII, No. 149–150 (autumn / October 2012), ISSN 1318-0509

Filed under: Texts