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<font style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Aksioma
– Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, kindly invites you to
the opening of the exhibition and presentations</font><font
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<font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><b>Igor
Štromajer</b></font> <br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4"><i><b><span
style="background:transparent">Make
Love, Not Art</span></b></i></font><br>
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href="http://www.aksioma.org/make_love_not_art"><font
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style="background:transparent">www.aksioma.org/make_love_not_art</span></font></a></u></span></font><font
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<font style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
style="background:transparent"><font color="#141414"><span
lang="en-US"><b>Aksioma
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color="#141414"><span lang="en-US"><b>
Project Space</b></span></font></span></font><font
face="Times New Roman"> <br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#141414"><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="2">Komenskega
18, Ljubljana, Slovenija</font></font><font face="Times New
Roman"> <br>
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<font style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB">29 February –
16 March 2012</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"> <br>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>Presentations
and
exhibition opening: Wednesday, 29 February 2012, 7 p.m.</b></font>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span
style="text-decoration:none"><span lang="en-GB">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. </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span
lang="en-GB"><b>Igor
Štromajer</b></span></span><span
style="text-decoration:none"><span lang="en-GB">
will present the incentives for the project </span></span><span
style="text-decoration:none"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Expunction</b></i></span></span><span
style="text-decoration:none"><span lang="en-GB">
and the problem of archiving online works of art. </span></span><span
style="text-decoration:none"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gordan
Savičić</b></span></span><span
style="text-decoration:none"><span lang="en-GB">
– who, as part of the project </span></span><span
style="text-decoration:none"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Web
2.0 Suicide Machine</b></i></span></span><span
style="text-decoration:none"><span lang="en-GB">,
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. </span></span><span
style="text-decoration:none"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Ida
Hiršenfelder</b></span></span><span
style="text-decoration:none"><span lang="en-GB">
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.</span></span></font>
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style="font-family:arial"><font face="Times New Roman"><font><span
style="font-style:normal"><span
style="background-image:initial;background-color:transparent">Images
available for free download: </span></span></font></font><font
color="#3333ff"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.aksioma.org/press/make_love_not_art.zip"><font
face="Times New Roman"><font>www.aksioma.org/press/</font></font><font
face="Times New Roman"><font><span lang="zxx"><u><span
style="background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial
initial">make_love_not_art</span></u></span></font></font><font
face="Times New Roman"><font>.zip</font></font></a></font> </span><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><b>Igor Štromajer</b></font>
<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4"><i><b>Make
Love, Not Art</b></i></font></font><font face="Times New
Roman"> <br>
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<font style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><span style="background:transparent">Igor
Štromajer’s exhibition focuses on the project </span></span></font><font
style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><i><span style="background:transparent">Expunction</span></i></span></font><font
style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB">.
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 </span></font><font face="Times New Roman"
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.intima.org/expunction"><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">www.intima.org/expunction</span></font></a></u></span></font><font
style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB">.</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"> <br>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style:normal"><span
style="font-weight:normal">The
project </span></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><span
style="font-weight:normal">Expunction</span></i></span><span
lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style:normal"><span
style="font-weight:normal">
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.</span></span></span></font> <br>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><b>Igor
Štromajer</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> (Intima Virtual
Base –
</span><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.intima.org/"><span
lang="en-GB">www.intima.org</span></a></u></span></font><span
lang="en-GB">)
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.</span></font>
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<font style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><b>Gordan
Savičić</b></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"
face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">
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. </span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"
face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Web
2.0 Suicide Machine</i></span></font><font
style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB">
was conceived as part of the media hack cooperative moddr_
from
Rotterdam.</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"> <br>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style:normal"><b>Ida
Hiršenfelder</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><span
style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">
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 </span></span></span><span
lang="en-GB"><i><span style="font-weight:normal">Dnevnik</span></i></span><span
lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style:normal"><span
style="font-weight:normal">.
Occasionally, she writes texts for exhibition
catalogues.</span></span></span></font> <br>
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<font style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><b><br>
Production:
</b></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New
Roman" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Aksioma
– Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2012</span></font><font
face="Times New Roman"> <br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080"><span
lang="zxx"><u><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.aksioma.org/"><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">www.aksioma.org</span></font></a></u></span></font><font
style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman"> <br>
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<font style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB">Artistic
Director: Janez Janša</span></font><font face="Times New
Roman"> <br>
</font><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Executive
Producer: Marcela Okretič</span></font><font face="Times New
Roman"> <br>
</font><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman"
size="2">Assistant
Production: Sonja Grdina</font><font face="Times New Roman"> <br>
</font><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Public
Relations: Mojca Zupanič</span></font><font face="Times New
Roman"> <br>
</font><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman"
size="2">Technical
Supervisor: Valter Udovičić</font><font face="Times New Roman">
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<font style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><b>Acknowledgments:
</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight:normal">Robert
Sakrowski,
</span></span><span lang="en-GB">Brane Zorman</span></font><font
face="Times New Roman"> <br>
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<font style="font-size:11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><i><b>The
programme
of Aksioma Institute is supported by the Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of
Ljubljana.</b></i></font><font face="Times New Roman"> <br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font
style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><i><span
style="background:transparent">Sponsor:
Datacenter d.o.o.</span></i></font></font><font
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