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Stromajer's artworks have included street performances, time-based net art projects and Internet movies as well as "megapathetic symphonies" and digital art. His recent navigational digital web movie, sprinkling menstrual navigator combines movies with written instructions that are alternately philosophical ("enjoy your sadness"), pragmatic ("enter by clicking enter signs"), or a synthesis of the two ("free your mind and the rest will follow"). The viewer then manipulates the work by clicking on individual film sequences. The resulting "short stories" rely on popular culture and individual (subjective) associations to create their full content. Other of Stromajer's recent projects also use the tools and the potential of the Internet (design, interactivity, connectivity, delay) to create conceptual art. The artist's earlier web piece 0.html uses a format basic to many computer games (password demands, warning signs, game-level choices) to lead to various facets of the work, each with a sound file: Tito addressing his nation, a U.S. president discussing the role of the United States in world politics, Neil Armstrong's voice extolling his great leap for mankind as he lands on the moon, etc." At the end of the project, Stromajer leaves the visitor with the rather perplexing statement: "Internet is the most primitive medium ever." Andreas Broeckmann has called 0.html "an archive of historical techno-imagination, world politics and a grain of melancholy. --Barbara Lee Williams, Leonardo/ISAST Awards Committee chairperson __________________________________________________ (artist questionnaire) Date of birth: December 29, 1967 Date and location of your first major exhibition: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, September 1997 Location where you currently work (city and country): Ljubljana, Slovenia How do you see technology changing art for the good or ill in the next decade?: As the Internet develops as a medium, it will become completely connected and compatible with other machines, like washing machines, toasters, refrigerators, cars, etc. If today some people are already talking about interaction as one of the principles of computer-related art, they have to know that they are wrong, because what we have now is just the unimportant surface of something we would like to be an interaction, but it's not. The real interaction is still coming. It will bring us the complex interrelation of all the machines into our lives and into our bodies. Nano-robots will settle our flesh, and each individual will become something like a computer-server walking around and communicating, interacting and interrelating with everything both near and far away. The Internet as such will disappear or transform into a very personal/intimate/micro and very global/macro total medium at the same time. It has to become a physical and material part of our real body if it wants to survive in any way. So, the future is in body-integrated cellular phones and GPSs. Can you imagine art in those circumstances? __________________________________________________ to learn more about Igor Stromajer's work, visit these websites http://kid.kibla.org/~intima/smn http://www.intima.org http://www2.arnes.si/guest/ljintima3/iaward.html |