Verbindingen/Jonctions 12
(12th edition of bi-annual festival)

“By Data We Mean”
Brussels, Belgium, 21-29 November 2009

# participating with:
Oppera Internettikka – Protection et Sécurité by Annie Abrahams & Igor Stromajer
(Montpellier, France, 2006)

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V/J12 is a project by Constant, Association for Art and Media

This years edition of the festival proposes three threads to be unravelled and interwoven. The first, Shades of Grey Literature is an invitation to discover, play and worry about the numerous documents, commentaries and traces which organise electronic communication in the background. A mass of anonymous documents (licenses, conditions, specifications, guidelines and standards) secures the uninterrupted flow of information. Ubiquitous Grey literature radiates out from the margins and regulates the relationship between machines and humans. As it frames the way humans relate through networks too, who has the right to see, read, write or execute?

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Island: Minami Torishima, Japan
Reference: Ballettikka Internettikka Nipponnikka

- Wikipedia: Minami Torishima

- Minami Torishima local time
Timezone:  JST (Japan Standard Time), GMT/UTC+9

- Weather forecast for Minami Torishima

- Minami Torishima map

Minami Torishima (Photo by NASA)

# see also: BI Nipponnikka – Seawater Training 01

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5th edition of Share Festival for art and digital culture
3-8 November 2009
Turin / Torino, Italy
www.toshare.it

Market Forces – Fake websites and pranks, squatting supermarkets, anti-games, fake supermarket and guerrilla activism.
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, via Giolitti 36, 10 am – 7 pm

Simona Lodi, art director

# participating with: Problemmarket.com – The Problem Stock Exchange by Janez Janša and Igor Štromajer (Video Documentary, 2002)

+ Incontro con Simona Lodi

The Sharing, Via Rossini 3 – 10124 Torino (IT)

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Share Festival – Incontro con Simona Lodi

Ho incontrato Simona Lodi, direttrice artistca di Share Festival (Torino 3-8 novembre) e ideatrice della mostra “Market Forces”

Il Sole 24 Ore, 16/10/2009

simonearcagni.nova100.ilsole24ore.com/2009/10/share-festival-incontro-con-simona-lodi.html

“… In Slovenia due artisti– Janez Janša e Igor Štromajer aprono on line Problemmarket.com – la borsa dei problemi – dove si possono comprare e vendere problemi – perché è dai conflitti che nasce l’opportunità di trarre profitto …”

Transformator

No Art Without Transformator!

Problemmarket.com – The Problem Stock Exchange
by Janez Janša and Igor Štromajer

www.problemmarket.com

[The Documentation of the Project: 2001-2006/09 – new domain]

Ballettikka Internettikka Nipponnikka – Seawater Training 01

First wet/seawater training for the new Ballettikka Internettikka live action on the Japan’s easternmost island (Minami Torishima), which is going to be performed in the second half of November 2009.

www.intima.org/bi/bin

Action to be performed: Two Suns are simultaneously rising from the Pacific Ocean, and at the same time two robots are walking/diving into the ocean, dancing the early morning Internet Ballet in the Land of the Rising Sun:

Photos from the training: 25 September 2009.
Training location: Strunjan Bay, Slovenia

Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman:
Ballettikka Internettikka
Internet Ballet
2001-2009
www.intima.org/bi

Minami Torishima, the easternmost island of the Land of the Rising Sun

Minam Torishima is an isolated island in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. It has an area of 1.2 square kilometres. It is the hottest place in Japan. It is the easternmost territory belonging to Japan, lying some 1,848 kilometres SE of Tokyo. There is an airport available on the island. It takes about 45 minutes to walk around the island. It is triangular in shape, as well as low lying. The island is unusual as the closer to the coast, the higher the elevation. The central area of the island is 1 meter below sea level whilst the coast is about 5 to 8 meters above. The island is presently used for weather observation and has a radio station, but little else.

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EVERGREEN
Comments on media

22 and 23 September 2009 at 10.10 PM in the Old Power Station in Ljubljana (Ex Ponto, Slovenia). Live Internet broadcast also in Kanuti Gildi SAAL in Tallinn (Estonia; local time: 11.10 PM) and the TPN / Auditório de Alfornelos (The Intensive Art Care Proto) in Amadora (Portugal; local time: 9.10 PM).

+ Live Internet Broadcast Window: 22 & 23 Sept 2009, Ustream.TV

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Media enter the realms of imagination and coproduce a regime of communication. As a series of comments on media EVERGREEN is opening up paradoxical layers of our perception and different understandings of media translations.

Easily lost in the commodities of our society, the radicals of amusement ensure raw material for the present cynical need of utopia. Therefore, everything looks so homely …
Between terrorism and tourism, there is rather a need of micropolitics than the exposure of essential elements and scenes. EVERGREEN does not fetch dramatic interventions but subtle operations and sensual dynamics.
EVERGREEN is a chain of actions: from Boris Mihalj to Gertrude Stein (1994) – from The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) to robots – from the French chanson Ne me quitte pas to the Japanese notebook in white acrylic – from the current weather forecast to the symphony orchestra conductor´s final explanation of EVERGREEN – from applauding to laughing of twenty-one green crocodiles.
Creative media assimilate and scatter the pigeonholing into intermedia and performing arts, into sports and chess, into politics and art, etc. The family circle has expanded. The character of an individual or his work is no longer formed by merely two serious and clumsy family experts. EVERGREEN establishes fluid relationships among the big and the small and enables subtle operations and sensual dynamics to manifest themselves in the imperative of contemporaneity – the empathy. Through this, the whole world is wise again (as it always was).

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Photo: Nada Žgank & Miha Fras

+ EVERGREEN Rehearsals Photos (September 2009) on Flickr

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koncept in režija | Concept and Directing: Vlado G. Repnik
intimni mobilni komunikator | Intimate Mobile Communicator: Igor Štromajer
supervizija | Supervision: Lana K. Gotvan, Martina Ruhsam
kamera v živo | Live Camera: Janez Janša

soavtorji | Co-artists: Boris Mihalj, Toshihiro Yonezu, Miran Trontelj, Janez Skela, Duško Pušica, Tomaž Žnidarčič
kuratorja | Curators: Anders Harm, Pedro Saavedra

Produkcija | Produced by: GVR, Bunker Ljubljana, Ex Ponto, Intima Virtual Base

Projekt sta sofinancirala Ministrstvo za kulturo RS in MOL Ljubljana.
The project was co-financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.

GVR babaLAN
www.babalan.org

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EVERGREEN
Komentarji o medijih

22. in 23. septembra 2009, obakrat ob 22:10, v Stari mestni elektrarni Ljubljana (Ex Ponto, Slovenija). Neposredni prenos v Kanuti Gildi SAAL v Talinu (Estonija; lokalni čas: 23:10) in TPN / Auditório de Alfornelos (Intenzivni negi umetnosti Proto) v Amadori (Portugalska; lokalni čas: 21:10).

Mediji vstopajo v območje domišljije in soustvarjajo način komunikacije. EVERGREEN, kot vrsta komentarjev na medije, odkriva paradoksalne ravni naše precepcije in različna razumevanja prevodov.

Zlahka izgubljeni v udobju skupnosti, zabaviščni radikali zagotavljajo surovine sedanji cinični potrebi po utopijah. Zato vse izgleda tako domače …
Med terorizmom in turizmom je prej potreba po mini diplomaciji intenzivnosti kot pa osvetlitev velikih bistev in prizorišč. EVERGREEN ne prinaša dramatičnih intervencij temveč subtilne operacije in senzualne dinamike.
EVERGREEN je sosledje dejanj: od Borisa Mihalja do Gertrude Stein (1994) – od Položaja delavskega razreda v Angliji (1845) do robotov – od francoskega šansona Ne me quitte pas do japonskega prenosnega računalnika v belem akrilu – od aktualne vremenske napovedi do dirigentove zaključne razlage EVEGREENa – od ploskanja do smejanja enaindvajsetih zelenih krokodilov.
Ustvarjalni mediji asimilirajo in razblinjajo predalčkanja na intermedijske in uprizoritvene umetnosti, na šport in šah, na politiko in umetnost itd. Družinski krog se je razširil. Karakter posameznika ali njegovega dela ni več oblikovan zgolj z resnima in nerodnima, družinskima ekspertoma. EVERGREEN vzpostavlja fluidna razmerja med velikim in majhnim in omogoča, da se subtilne operacije in senzualne dinamike manfestirajo v imperativu sodobnosti – empatiji. Z njo je cel svet zopet moder (kakor je vselej bil).

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TO BE CONTINUED…

Group exhibition in MMSU – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Croatia
Video collection by Maribor Art Gallery
17 September – 24 October 2009
Curator: Simona Vidmar

infoMAMA, mobile emotional network, multimedia project by Igor Štromajer, 2004

Featured artists: Zemira Alajbegović Pečovnik & Neven Korda; Vuk Cosić; Nuša Dragan & Srečo Dragan; Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid; Jasna Hribernik; Damjan Kracina & Vladimir Leben; Ema Kugler;  Janez Janša; Matej Modrinjak; Nataša Prosenc; Franc Purg; son:DA; Igor Štromajer; Apolonija Šušteršič; Miha Vipotnik

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TO BE CONTINUED… video zbirka UGM

Muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti, Reka, Hrvaška
17. september – 24. oktober 2009
otvoritev: četrtek, 17. september 2009, ob 19.00
kustosinja: Simona Vidmar

umetniki: Zemira Alajbegović Pečovnik & Neven Korda; Vuk Cosić; Nuša Dragan & Srečo Dragan; Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid; Jasna Hribernik; Damjan Kracina & Vladimir Leben; Ema Kugler;  Janez Janša; Matej Modrinjak; Nataša Prosenc; Franc Purg; son:DA; Igor Štromajer; Apolonija Šušteršič; Miha Vipotnik

Igor Štromajer: infoMAMA, mobilna emocionalna mreža, 2004, večmedijski spletni projekt

Umetnostna galerija Maribor je edina slovenska institucija s samostojno zbirko slovenske video umetnosti in v ta namen od leta 1999 zbira, varuje, ohranja, raziskuje in predstavlja dela slovenskih videastov od začetkov video umetnosti v Sloveniji v 60-tih leti 20. stoletja do danes. Prvi odkupi umetniških del in ustanovitev Video zbirke UGM leta 1999 je sovpadalo z donatorstvom takratnega podpornika novo nastale zbirke (Phillip Morris Ljubljana), kar je nekaj let pripomoglo k dinamiki odkupov. Zbirka v nastajanju je bila ustanovljena z namenom osnovanja referenčnega centra za slovensko video umetnost ter možnosti stalne prezentacije te vrste vizualne umetnosti v Sloveniji oziroma njene promocije doma in v tujini.

V Video zbirki UGM se danes nahajajo dela najpomembnejših slovenskih videastov oz. umetnikov, ki ustvarjajo v mediju gibljivih slik ali v svoja dela vključujejo video kot pomemben segment njihovega umetniškega dela. Zbirka, ki poskuša istočasno zadostiti obema kriterijema zbiralne politike – zgodovinski pregled in medij v širšem kontekstu sodobne vizualne umetnosti – združuje dela pionirjev slovenske video umetnosti v 60-ih in 70-ih letih 20. st. (Nuša in Srečo Dragan, Miha Vipotnik), najpomembnejše ustvarjalce iz 80-ih in 90-ih let, obdobja uveljavitve medija kot samostojnega in enakovrednega nosilca umetniškega ustvarjanja (Marina Gržinić in Aina Šmid, Marko Kovačič, Andrej Lupinc, Nataša Prosenc, Zemira Alajbegović Pečovnik in Neven Korda, Andrej Zdravič, Jasna Hribernik, Franc Purg, Ema Kugler) ter sodobno produkcijo zadnjih 10 let, ko medij prestane preizkuse številnih novih uporab in prilagoditev oz. služi kot eden izmed nosilcev znotraj kompleksnega življenja sodobnih umetniških del (Vuk Cosić, Igor Štromajer, Davide Grassi/Janez Janša, Apolonija Šušteršič, son:DA, Damjan Kracina in Vladimir Leben, Žiga Kariž idr). 

Razstava TO BE CONTINUED… (Se nadaljuje…) bo v MMSU predstavila 16 avtorjev in njihovih del, ki so prepoznana kot ključna dela pri razvoju video umetnosti v Sloveniji oz. pri razširjeni uporabi medija znotraj večmedijskih instalacij, net arta in interaktivne umetnosti. 

Igor Štromajer: infoMAMA, mobilna emocionalna mreža, 2004, večmedijski spletni projekt

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Brez hierarhične razmejitve med centrom in periferijo
Poletje, predlogi za stalno zbirko, v Umetnostni galeriji Maribor

http://www.vecer.com/clanekkul2009080705458049

Marjeta Ciglenečki
Večer, Kultura, 07.08.2009

# Igor Štromajer: “Mami, naredi mi to umetnost spet politično!” (grafit in CCTV videonadzorni sistem, 2009)

Shortly After The Re_Move
The Performative Machine and The Exhibition in Progress

Kmalu po premiku
dogodkovni stroj in razstava v nastajanju

[by] Aleksei Blinov, Robert Klančnik, Vlado G. Repnik, Martina Ruhsam, Igor Štromajer, Veronika Zott

# Opening: 4 July 2009 at 5 pm
Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia

# otvoritev: 4. julija 2009 ob 17h
Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti, Slovenj Gradec

+ Flickr Photo Show

[or watch the video on YouTube]

“We believe that God needs no pre-existent thing or any help in order to create, nor is creation any sort of necessary emanation from the divine substance. God creates freely out of nothing. A human artisan makes from a given material whatever he wants, while God shows his power by starting from nothing to make all he wants.”
(Catechism of Catholic Church)

[or watch the video on YouTube]

V genskem bazenu projekta “Kmalu po premiku” se križajo poti klasičnih umetnostnih disciplin, razblinjajo njihove meje in v procesu odpirajo nove kreativne forme, občutljive na svoj kontekst: za razvoj novih modelov umetnosti, novih jezikov za reprezentacijo idej in novih strategij interveniranja v javni sferi.

You come, as awaited, from a place I can hardly imagine!

Posebna zahvala za sodelovanje / Special thanks to:
Alma Košan, Lana K. Gotvan, Matej Jenko, Jožica Demšar, Stefan Doepner

# produkcija / Produced by:
Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti, GVR babaLAN 2009

Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti, Glavni trg 24, 2380 Slovenj Gradec
http://www.glu-sg.si/ | galerija@glu-sg.si
tel.: +386(0)28822131 | fax: +386(0)28822130
Odprto od torka do petka od 9. do 18. ure, v soboto in nedeljo od 11. do 17. ure, ob ponedeljkih zaprto.

+ Flickr Photo Show | Facebook Photo Album#

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ProThesis

ProThesis 2009

POLETJE, predlogi za stalno zbirko (skupinska razstava)
The Summer (group exhibition)
Umetnostna galerija Maribor / The Maribor Art Gallery

“MOM, MAKE ME THIS ART POLITICAL AGAIN!”

# Igor Štromajer: “Mami, naredi mi to umetnost spet politično!” (grafit, 2009)

2. julij – 30. oktober 2009
– otvoritev razstave: v četrtek, 2. julija 2009 ob 19h
–  avtor projekta in kurator razstave: dr. Tomaž Brejc

# Igor Štromajer: “Mami, naredi mi to umetnost spet politično!” (grafit in CCTV videonadzorni sistem, 2009)

# Igor Štromajer: “Mami, naredi mi to umetnost spet politično!” (CCTV videonadzorni sistem, 2009)

Razstava je nastala iz prepričanja, da ta čas delujejo v mestu in v širšem zaledju severovzhodne Slovenije izjemne umetnice in umetniki, katerih dela je vredno prikazati na ustvarjalen način: ne kot razstavo z ozko določenim teoretičnim konceptom ali regionalno vsebino, temveč kot predstavni rizom, ki zajema vse umetniške medije in tehnike, torej risbe, slike, kipe, fotografije, video, instalacije in objekte. Nastajala je postopoma, iz sproščenih ustvarjalnih dialogov med kuratorjem in umetnicami in umetniki, v katerih je bil glas vsakega sodelujočega popolnoma enakovreden.

# Igor Štromajer: “Mami, naredi mi to umetnost spet politično!” (CCTV videonadzorni sistem, 2009)

Razstava postavlja umetniška dela v dinamična vizualna soočenja, od mirnega sožitja do ostrega kontrasta, predvsem pa se osredotoča na individualnost, na posamično, radikalno subjektivno učinkovanje umetnine. Ustvariti pregledno razstavo, osnovano na “horizontalni selekciji”, v kateri se zrcali gosta, morda tudi izzivalna prepletenost in posebnost ustvarjalnih stališč, poseliti galerijske prostore z različnimi umetniškimi mediji in predmeti, preseči delitve na umetniške žanre in posamične discipline, soočiti individualno in univerzalno, lokalno in globalno, zasebno in javno – to je bila naša temeljna misel.

# Igor Štromajer: “Mami, naredi mi to umetnost spet politično!” (CCTV videonadzorni sistem, 2009)

Kako je mariborska likovna scena ta čas razvejana in dejavna, pričajo imena razstavljalk/cev: Nika Autor, Saša Bezjak, Andrej Brumen Čop, Ksenija Čerče, Mitja Ficko, Dušan Fišer, Darko Golija, Samuel Grajfoner, Aleksandra Gruden, Jasna Hribernik, Polona Maher, Iztok Maroh, Katja Majer, Marko Ornik, Ana Pečar, Polona Petek, Borut Popenko, Uroš Potočnik, Nataša Prosenc, Oto Rimele, Mirjana Rukavina, son: DA, Katja Sudec, Natalija Šeruga, Igor Štromajer, Aleksandra Vajd in Hynek Alt, Petra Varl, Roman Zel, Matjaž Wenzel. Predstavilo se bo 30 avtorjev, razstavljenih pa bo več kot 60 del.

# Igor Štromajer: “Mami, naredi mi to umetnost spet politično!” (grafit, 2009)

+ info:
Andreja Borin, kuratorka zbirk UGM in sokustosinja razstave
T 02/ 229 46 94, 02/229 58 60
andreja.borin[@]ugm.si

# Igor Štromajer: “Mami, naredi mi to umetnost spet politično!” (CCTV videonadzorni sistem, 2009)

+ Flickr Photo Show

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The Big Kiss

Live Internet Broadcast Performance by Annie Abrahams (Ljubljana)

“Machine mediated kissing in a performance = drawing with your tongue = taking pleasure, while constructing an image = a way to be superaware of the other = never totally abandoning yourself = ???????? = not at all like real kissing, it is better! This might be a female point of view.”
Annie Abrahams

+ YouTube version

= Live Internet Broadcast Performance: Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana
21 June 2009 at 9.30 pm

Author: Annie Abrahams
Intimate Mobile Communicator: Igor Štromajer

Web Cam N.1: Martina Ruhsam – Vienna, Austria
Web Cam N.2: Vlado G. Repnik – Ljubljana, Slovenia

Produced by Intima Virtual Base – Institute for Contemporary Arts
Tech: TokBox, Ustream.tv

& Photo / Slide Show:

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+ Live Urban Mobile Guerrilla Performance: Ljubljana City Center
Le Tourisme. La Guérilla. L’Art.
20 June 2009 at 9.30 pm (lowest-res documentation):

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# additional references (The Big Kiss in New York City, 2008):
aabrahams.wordpress.com/tag/the-big-kiss
www.bram.org/toucher/TBK.html

Annie Abrahams – Doctorate in Biology, University of Utrecht, 1979. Diploma of the Art school of Arnhem, 1986. Annie Abrahams makes videos, installations and performance pieces. She teached at the University of Montpellier, Arts Department (2002-2005). Since November 2006 she is curating the project “InstantS” for Association Panoplie (panoplie.org). She is also curating the “Breaking Solitude” web-performances project in 2007 and 2008. Besides doing her art work she lectures, teaches and conducts workshops. [PDF CV]

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Ballettikka Internettikka / Radio Slovenija III. program (program ARS) / Oder – oddaja o sočasnem gledališču / gosta: Igor Štromajer + Brane Zorman / urednica: Petra Tanko

[avdio arhiv na internetu: MMC RTV SLO]

– 1. oddaja, 12. junija 2009 (28 minut)
– 2. oddaja, 19. junija 2009 (34 minut)

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a) YouTube playlist:

www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3D12CD4B89FF27AA
(vseh šest delov/posnetkov drug za drugim – Play All)

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b) Neposredne povezave do posnetkov na YouTube:
(dolžina enega YouTube posnetka je omejena na 10 min)

– 1. oddaja, 12. junija 2009:

DEL: 1/6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-P-8u6L3Qc

DEL: 2/6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT11gpd0oX0

DEL: 3/6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Do6E47aaU

– 2. oddaja, 19. junija 2009:

DEL: 4/6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3L0v1PoGgw

DEL: 5/6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVgHKeMCh5M

DEL: 6/6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovBsEGGVrA0

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krise #1 “a start”

Intima Virtual Base, Igor Štromajer and The Robot in Galerie Krise (Basso Public Studio), Berlin, Germany, 9 June 2009.

www.botnik.net/krise/start
www.botnik.net/krise/start/index.php?site=stromajer

www.galerie-krise.com
www.botnik.net/krise
www.botnik.net
www.basso-berlin.de

+ Flickr Photo Show

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# History

Art.Teleportacia animated banner made by Igor Štromajer for Olia Lialina in 1998 (made out of the scanned title of the interview, published in the local newspaper / an interview about Olia Lialina’s presentation in Maribor, Slovenia).

Translation of the Slovenian text: “Teleportation by Olia Lialina”.

Published also in: Internet Art (World of Art) by Rachel Greene, Thames & Hudson, London, 2004.

Animated GIF (in full-size version) – http://art.teleportacia.org/office/banner/intima.gif
Art.Teleportacia – http://art.teleportacia.org

Click here (1.2 MB, JPEG) to read/see the interview (in Slovenian language only); Večer, 18 May 1998, Maribor, Slovenia; journalist: Darinko Kores Jacks.

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Valérie Lamontagne: Interview with Igor Stromajer
Montreal, Canada, September 2000

Video: 14 min 40 sec

Facebook video
http://www.facebook.com/…

www.mobilegaze.com

# presenting the first project where Intima Virtual Base and Igor Štromajer have used the computer as a live/interactive object: a tool for the performer to communicate with the audience.

The Bosom – Decorated With Wreaths of Roses
(Intense Communication Event)
April 1995
Venue: Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Authors: Bojana Kunst & Igor Štromajer
Angel of Victory / Performer: Barbara Pia Jenič
Voices: Petra Govc, Polona Juh, Barbara Pia Jenič
Composer: Marko Boh
Photographer: Bojan Golčar

Co-produced by Intima and Kapelica Gallery, 1995.

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+ open SlideShow in a new window (play it full-screen)

Ballettikka Internettikka
www.intima.org/bi

Internet Ballet
by Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman

SlideShare slideshow presentation (2001-2009; last updated: 1 June 2009)

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Dead Guard

Mrtva straža | Gardes Morte | Muerto Guardia | Totwache

Srečko Kosovel; Tomaj, Slovenia: 45 45 18 N, 13 51 97 E
Avgust Černigoj; Sežana, Slovenia: 45 42 32 N, 13 52 24 E
Marij Kogoj; Ljubljana, Slovenia: 46 04 54 N, 14 32 06 E

Location Is A Fiction

Second Life location: 125 | 14 | 1003

Pixel Tattoos & Ballettikka Internettikka
29 May 2009, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria / Aksioma, Slovenia

Project N.1 – intervention

The Condition of the Working Class in England?
(Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England?)

A project by Igor Štromajer

“Working Men! To you I dedicate a work, a faithful picture of your condition, of your sufferings and struggles, of your hopes and prospects. I wanted to see you in your own homes, to observe you in your everyday life, to chat with you on your condition and grievances, to witness your struggles against the social and political power of your oppressors. Having, at the same time, ample opportunity to watch the middle-classes, your opponents, I soon came to the conclusion that you are perfectly right in expecting no support whatever from them. Their interest is diametrically opposed to yours. Their doings give them the lie. Have they ever paid any serious attention to your grievances? Not they indeed, those are things they do not like to speak of — they have left it to a foreigner to inform the civilised world of the degrading situation you have to live in. Go on then, as you have done hitherto. Much remains to be undergone; be firm, be undaunted — your success is certain, and no step you will have to take in your onward march will be lost to our common cause, the cause of Humanity!”

Friedrich Engels
Barmen (Rhenan Prussia, 15 March 1845)

# Kunsthaus Graz BIX facade photos (29 May 2009; Photo: !gor Š.)

BIX1 is a matrix of 930 fluorescent lamps integrated into the eastern Plexiglas facade of the Kunsthaus. Through the possibility to individually adjust the lamps’ brightness at an infinite variability with 20 frames/second images, films and animations can be displayed. BIX is an experimental laboratory. As the content producer the Kunsthaus has the chance to develop methods for a dynamic communication between building and surroundings, between content and outside perception.

# Kunsthaus Graz BIX facade video (29 May 2009; Camera: Janez Janša)

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Project N.2 – presentation

Ballettikka Internettikka
Internet Ballet
A project by Igor Štromajer + Brane Zorman

Ballettikka Internettikka is a series of tactical art projects which began in 2001 with the exploration of Internet ballet. It explores wireless Internet ballet performances combined with guerrilla tactics and mobile live Internet broadcasting strategies.

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Pixel Tattoos transforms Kunsthaus Graz into a rhythmically pulsating tapestry of perceptual phenomena, piercing the urban space. Pixel Tattoos displays the interaction between the biomorphic architecture of the Kunsthaus and digital animations by four Slovenian media artists – Marko Batista, Igor Štromajer, Neven Korda and Luka Prinčič invited to the project by intermedia artist Janez Janša – who have been asked to face the unusual technical parameters offered by this peculiar medium. The “minimalistic” and “limited” structure of the Kunsthaus façade creates a challenging surface for artistic expression, imparting an unconventional visual-spatial experience: a ghostly screen of dynamic light and reflection, an outer membrane where a particular “process of writing” and “exploration of the surface tension qualities” transpires. The result is a dialogue between the two elements, a “conversation” happening neither inside the building nor outside but exactly on its skin.

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PROGRAMME

29 May 2009, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Location: Media Kunst Labor

8 pm
Ballettikka Internettikka 2001-2009
Lecture/performance
by Igor Štromajer and Brane Zorman

8.45 pm
Pecha Kucha Presentation
Marko Batista, Janez Janša, Neven Korda, Luka Prinčič / Nova deViator

9.30 pm
Pixel Tattoos
Marko Batista, Neven Korda, Luka Prinčič / Nova deViator, Igor Štromajer

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Pixel Tattoos event is produced and curated by Aksioma in collaboration with Kunsthaus Graz, 2009

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