KIBLIX 2024 | Igor Štromajer: 3¦×Fń–Qé3=Miá+

Igor Štromajer: 3¦×Fń–Qé3=Miá+
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22 November 2024–11 January 2025
artKIT

You are cordially invited to the opening of the solo exhibition 3¦×Fń-Qé3=Miá+ by Igor Štromajer, which will take place on Friday, 22 November 2024, at 6 p.m. at the artKIT exhibition space.

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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION (PDF)

Exhibition

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Štromajer exhibits random objects that the electric poet needs for his work, as well as parts of machines and defunct computer equipment that processed the Unicode poems and contributed to the creation of the book. The author's basic premise is that (para/non)art resides not only in the idea, in the concept, i.e. not only in the nominal and the declared, in itself, but equally in the tools and machines that produce it. The machines that generate it are an indispensable part of it.

3¦×Fń-Qé3=Miá+ is part of Štromajer's years-long process of dedigitalization, from the deletion of his net art works in 2011 to the present, because the only way to liberate ourselves from feudal techno-capitalism is through collective and total dedigitalization.

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Collection of Poems

The centrepiece of the exhibition opening will be the presentation of a book of one hundred and one poems co-written by a human and a machine.

The poems were generated between 2013 and 2018 by semi-automatic conversion of .jpg and .gif image files from the author’s deleted net art works [1996-2007; 2011: intima.org/ex] into text form using the Unicode Encoding Standard.

https://intima.org/101/
Igor Štromajer: 3¦×Fń–Qé3=Miá+ (PDF)

Published by KID KIBLA
Maribor, 2024
500 copies
TOX Edition, Vol. 29, Nr. 78

Biography

Igor Štromajer (https://intima.org), a non-amateur level electric non-artist – »le Pavarotti du HTML« – researches tactical a=tF², intimate guerrilla, and traumatic low-tech communication strategies. He has shown his work at more than three hundred exhibitions in more than sixty countries (transmediale, ISEA, EMAF, U3 Triennial, SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica Futurelab, V2_, IMPAKT, CYNETART, Manifesta, FILE, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Hamburg Kunsthalle, ARCO, Microwave, Banff Centre, Les Rencontres Internationales, The Wrong Biennale and in numerous other galleries and museums worldwide) and received a number of awards (in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Dresden, Belfort, Madrid, Maribor, Podgorica, etc.). His net art works form part of the permanent collections of the prestigious art institutions, among them Le Centre national d’art et de Culture Georges Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne in Paris, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Computerfinearts – net and media art collection in New York, and UGM – Maribor Art Gallery.

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