3¦×Q-1=M+
one hundred and one poems co-written by a human and a machine · book presentation by Igor Štromajer and his computers
About the event
/rosa · Zentrum für Netzkunst
Igor Štromajer: 3¦×Fń–Qé3=Mià+
one hundred and one poems co-written by a human and a machine
Berlin Book Launch
The Berlin launch of the latest collection of computer-generated poems by Igor Štromajer and his machines will take place on Friday, 24 January 2025 at 18:00 at /rosa - Zentrum für Netzkunst (Heidelberger Str. 28, 12059 Berlin, Alt-Treptow/Neukölln).
The poems were generated between 2013 and 2018 by semi-automatic conversion of .jpg and .gif image files from the author's deleted net art works [1996-2007; 2011] into text form using the Unicode Encoding Standard.
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· 112 pages, softcover, thread-sewn, 500 copies, published by KIBLA, Maribor, November 2024
ISBN 978-961-6304-56-6 · UDC 821.163.6-1
The Berlin presentation is organized with the kind support of the Slovenian Cultural Information Center SKICA Berlin.
About the Artist
Igor Štromajer • intima.org – "the Pavarotti of HTML" (Libération) – researches tactical emotional actions, intimate guerrilla, and traumatic low-tech communication strategies. He has shown his work at more than two hundred fifty exhibitions in more than sixty countries (transmediale, ISEA, EMAF, SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica Futurelab, V2_, IMPAKT, CYNETART, Manifesta, FILE, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Hamburg Kunsthalle, ARCO, Microwave, Banff Centre, Les Rencontres Internationales, The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale and in numerous other galleries and museums worldwide) and received a number of awards (in Frankfurt, Moscow, Hamburg, Dresden, Belfort, Madrid, Maribor, Podgorica). His projects form part of the permanent collections of the prestigious art institutions, among them Le 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, Computerfinearts – net and media art collection in New York, and Maribor Art Gallery in Slovenia. As a guest artist he lectures at universities and contemporary art institutes.
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