Igor Štromajer

Igor Štromajer (born 29 December 1967 in Maribor, Slovenia) is a Slovenian multimedia, internet and performance artist. He is associated with net art, low technology communication strategies and online performance, and has described his practice with the phrase "intimate mobile communicator".[1][2]

Life and education

Štromajer was born in Maribor, then part of Yugoslavia, in 1967. He studied theatre and radio directing at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana.[1] Before turning to internet-based art, he worked in theatre; in a 2000 interview he said that he first encountered the internet in 1996 and found it better suited than theatre to the "one to one" communication he wanted to explore.[3]

Work

Štromajer's practice includes web-based projects, interactive installations, video art, sound art, radio and conceptual performance.[2] Through the platform Intima Virtual Base, founded in Ljubljana in 1994,[1] he developed a body of work concerned with online intimacy, communication, eroticism, isolation and the emotional relation between artist and user.[2] His early online work Intima was described by Stephen Wilson as a web-based fictional biography of an astronaut.[4]

Critic and writer Tilman Baumgärtel included Štromajer in his study of net art, publishing an interview with him in net.art 2.0: New Materials towards Net Art.[5]

Štromajer's work What Was He Thinking About? Berlin? Praha? Ljubljana? Skopje won the ARCO/El Mundo net art award at ARCO Madrid in 2001.[6] The work is held by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.[7]

Štromajer's sm.N — Sprinkling Menstrual Navigator is listed in the Centre Pompidou / Musée national d'art moderne new media collection as a 2000 internet work, updated in July 2003, with the acquisition number AM 2002-238.[8]

Ballettikka Internettikka

In collaboration with Brane Zorman, Štromajer created the series Ballettikka Internettikka, a set of internet-broadcast performance works combining ballet, mobile technology, tactical media and guerrilla performance strategies.[2] The series began with net.ballet in 2001 and later included performances or transmissions connected to sites such as the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, La Scala in Milan, the Volksbühne in Berlin, and Antarctica.[2] The ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe has described Ballettikka Internettikka and Oppera Internettikka as among Štromajer's best-known works.[9]

Expunction

In 2011 Štromajer carried out intima.org/expunction, a networked performance in which he deleted a group of his own earlier net art works. According to Moderna galerija / MG+MSUM, between 11 May and 16 June 2011 he permanently deleted 37 net art projects produced between 1996 and 2007, comprising 3,288 files and 101.72 MB of material.[10] The museum described the project as addressing temporality, duration, archiving and accessibility in net art, especially as digital works lose functionality through changes in hardware, software, browsers and applications.[10]

Collections

Štromajer's works are held in public and institutional collections, including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.[7][8] Other institutional biographies list his work in collections including the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, Computerfinearts Gallery in New York and the Maribor Art Gallery.[10]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Preisträger – Igor Stromajer". Hamburger Kunsthalle. Archived from the original on 16 February 2007. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Intima Virtual Base". Culture.si. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
  3. ↑ Bosma, Josephine (2 August 2000). "Interview with Igor Stromajer". NOEMA. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
  4. ↑ Wilson, Stephen (2002). Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology. MIT Press. p. 570. ISBN 0-262-73158-4.
  5. ↑ Baumgärtel, Tilman (2001). net.art 2.0: Neue Materialien zur Netzkunst / New Materials towards Net Art. Nuremberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg. pp. 134–141. ISBN 3-933096-66-9.
  6. ↑ de la Rosa, Ysabel (21 March 2001). "ARCO Report". artnet. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
  7. 1 2 "Stromajer, Igor". Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
  8. 1 2 "Collection nouveaux médias" (PDF). Centre Pompidou. p. 25. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
  9. ↑ "Igor Štromajer". ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
  10. 1 2 3 "2005–2015: Igor Štromajer: intima.org/expunction". Moderna galerija / MG+MSUM. Retrieved 8 June 2026.

Further reading

  • Baumgärtel, Tilman (2001). net.art 2.0: Neue Materialien zur Netzkunst / New Materials towards Net Art. Nuremberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg. pp. 134–141. ISBN 3-933096-66-9.
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