BIO

Igor Štromajer (intima.org), a non-amateur level electric non-artist – “le Pavarotti du HTML” – researches intimate guerrilla and dystopic low-tech communications. In his works he establishes strategies of causeless resistance and offers unsuccessful tactics to overcome political anxiety. He has shown his work at more than 300 exhibitions in more than 60 countries (transmediale, ISEA, EMAF, SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica Futurelab, V2_, IMPAKT, Manifesta, FILE, Hamburg Kunsthalle, ARCO, Les Rencontres Internationales, The Wrong Biennale, and in numerous other galleries and museums worldwide) and received a number of awards (in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Dresden, Belfort, Madrid, Maribor, Podgorica, etc.). His net art works form part of the permanent collections of several museums, among them Le Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, Computerfinearts – net and media art collection in New York, Maribor Art Gallery in Maribor.

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WORK AT THE EXHIBITION

101.72 MB, 2024
dead electronic objects in white wooden frames; robot skeleton

101.72 MB is Štromajer’s latest series on memory. It displays framed computers and their parts that once produced, processed, transmitted and stored his artworks, but are now partially or completely dead, no longer performing their basic functions, carrying only a memory of them. The art is not only hidden in the concept, the idea, i.e., not only in the nominal and the declared, but equally also in the tools and machines that produce it. Štromajer’s 101.72 MB is presented through a two-part setup that includes twenty framed electronic objects that simulate – pretend to be – art, and the skeleton of a disused robot employed in his previous works.

The series as a whole is part of Štromajer’s years-long de-digitalization processes, from the deletion of his classical net art works in 2011 to the present, because the author believes that the only way to liberate ourselves from feudal techno-capitalism is through collective and total de-digitalization.

The title of the work indicates the amount of now deleted net art works – 101.72 MB of files – produced and processed by the exhibited machines and their parts during Štromajer’s net art period between 1996 and 2007.