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Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, kindly invites
you to the opening of the exhibition and presentations:<br><b><br>Igor
Štromajer<br><i>Make Love, Not Art</i></b><br><a href="http://www.aksioma.org/make_love_not_art">www.aksioma.org/make_love_not_art</a><br><br>Aksioma
| Project Space<br>Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenija<br>29 February
– 16 March 2012<br><br><b>Presentations and exhibition opening:
Wednesday, 29 February 2012, 7 p.m.</b><br><br>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. <b>Igor
Štromajer</b> will present the incentives for the project <b>Expunction</b>
and the problem of archiving online works of art. <b>Gordan Savičić</b>
– who, as part of the project <b>Web 2.0 Suicide Machine</b>,
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. <b>Ida Hiršenfelder</b> 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.<br><br>Images available for free download: <a href="http://www.aksioma.org/press/make_love_not_art.zip">www.aksioma.org/press/make_love_not_art.zip</a><br><br>-----<br><b>Igor
Štromajer<br><i>Make Love, Not Art</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>Igor Štromajer </b>(Intima
Virtual Base – 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.<br><br><b>Gordan Savičić</b> 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.<br><br><b>Ida
Hiršenfelder </b>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.<br><br><br><b>Production: </b>Aksioma
– Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2012<br><a href="http://www.aksioma.org">www.aksioma.org</a><br><br>Artistic
Director: Janez Janša<br>Executive Producer: Marcela Okretič<br>Assistant
Production: Sonja Grdina<br>Public Relations: Mojca Zupanič<br>Technical
Supervisor: Valter Udovičić<br><br>Acknowledgments: Robert
Sakrowski, Brane Zorman<br><br><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><br>Sponsor:
Datacenter d.o.o.<br><br><br><b>Contact:</b><br>Marcela Okretič, 041
250 830, aksioma4@siol.net<br>Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary
Art, Ljubljana<br>Neubergerjeva 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia<br>www.aksioma.org<br><br>
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