[aha] PRESS RELEASE: Make Love, Not Art by Igor Štromajer at Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana
Aksioma
aksioma4 a siol.net
Mar 28 Feb 2012 15:08:07 CET
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, kindly invites you
to the opening of the exhibition and presentations
*Igor Štromajer*
/*Make Love, Not Art*/
_www.aksioma.org/make_love_not_art
<http://www.aksioma.org/make_love_not_art>_
*Aksioma **|**Project Space*
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenija
29 February – 16 March 2012
*Presentations and exhibition opening: Wednesday, 29 February 2012, 7 p.m.*
Accompanying the opening of the exhibition, there will be three
presentations. They will shed light on digital life in cyberspace, which
can end with the expunction of data, oblivion or the death of online
identity. *Igor Štromajer*will present the incentives for the project
/*Expunction*/and the problem of archiving online works of art. *Gordan
Savičić*– who, as part of the project /*Web 2.0 Suicide Machine*/,
enabled the users of the social network to erase their entire profile to
secure their right to privacy and free management of digital life – will
discuss the issue of persistence of online identity in social networks.
*Ida Hiršenfelder*will consider digital death as a political and
aesthetic statement in works of art and the idea of eternity of online
life as an absurd desire to archive everything that exists.
Images available for free download:
www.aksioma.org/press/_make_love_not_art_.zip
<http://www.aksioma.org/press/make_love_not_art.zip>
*Igor Štromajer*
/*Make Love, Not Art*/
Igor Štromajer’s exhibition focuses on the project /Expunction/. Between
11 and 16 June 2011, Štromajer, one of the pioneers of net art in
Slovenia and worldwide, carried out a ritual expunction of his classic
net projects, which he created between 1996 and 2007. Every day during
that period, he deleted one net art project; he removed it permanently
from his server, so that the projects are now no longer available on the
web server of Intima Virtual Base. He completely deleted 37 net art
projects, totalling 3288 files or 101 MB. The documentation of the
expunction and the entire project is available online at
_www.intima.org/expunction <http://www.intima.org/expunction>_.
The project /Expunction/raises questions about temporality, duration and
availability of net art projects (the so-called “net art”), which change
over time and slowly, but persistently lose their utility and,
accordingly, their content. Štromajer’s principal guide in this project
was the idea that one who creates, programs and constructs art can also
deprogram, deconstruct, delete it. This is not an aggressive or
destructive act, but rather an instance of taking into account natural
rhythm: birth, life, death, which repeat themselves cyclically and
oscillate in natural amplitudes. Štromajer has deleted history,
including his own personal, intimate history, for he believes that
memory is here to deceive, to betray us, and not to show and describe
the past for us. A deceitful memory is not hard to delete, for it does
not offer a realistic image of the past of which it speaks; it is always
just a fraudulent, fabricated image. Hence, once they are published, the
deleted art works or their remaining fragments – which can no longer be
deleted due to the dispersal and the fragmentation of the world wide web
– tell us much more about their originals (the original art works) than
the originals themselves.
*Igor Štromajer*(Intima Virtual Base – _www.intima.org
<http://www.intima.org/>_) is a web artist, intimate mobile communicator
and virtual performer, who has participated in various exhibitions and
festivals at home and abroad. The opus of Intima Virtual Base comprises
more than fifty projects, which have been exhibited at more than a
hundred different exhibitions in 45 countries. Štromajer received
several awards for his work (in Moscow, Hamburg, Dresden, Belfort,
Madrid) and his projects have been purchased to be included in permanent
collections at leading art institutions (such as the 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, the
Computerfinearts Gallery – Net and Media Art Collection in New York, the
Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, the Slovene Museum of Contemporary Arts
in Ljubljana, and the Maribor Art Gallery in Maribor). As
artist-in-residence, he lectures at universities and contemporary art
institutes in Europe, USA and Canada.
*Gordan Savičić*received his Bachelor of Arts degree (in Digital Art and
New Media) from the University of Applied Art in Vienna, and his Masters
degree from the Institute Piet Zwart. He often collaborates with other
artists on artistic projects in numerous countries, such as Austria,
Croatia, Germany, Serbia, Switzerland, France and Great Britain. /Web
2.0 Suicide Machine/was conceived as part of the media hack cooperative
moddr_ from Rotterdam.
*Ida Hiršenfelder*is a contemporary art critic, assistant on video
programmes and at the DIVA (Digital Video Archive) station with SCCA,
Institute for Contemporary Art – Ljubljana. She regularly collaborates
with LJUDMILA – Ljubljana Digital Media Lab, and Aksioma – Institute for
Contemporary Art. Her texts have been aired on Radio študent and
published in the daily newspaper /Dnevnik/. Occasionally, she writes
texts for exhibition catalogues.
*
Production: *Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2012
_www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org/>_
Artistic Director: Janez Janša
Executive Producer: Marcela Okretič
Assistant Production: Sonja Grdina
Public Relations: Mojca Zupanič
Technical Supervisor: Valter Udovičić
*Acknowledgments: *Robert Sakrowski, Brane Zorman
/*The programme of Aksioma Institute is supported by the Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.*/
/Sponsor: Datacenter d.o.o./
*Contact:*
Marcela Okretič, 041 250 830, _aksioma4 at siol.net <mailto:aksioma4 at siol.net>_
*Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana*
Neubergerjeva 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
_www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org/>_
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