The exhibition opens tomorrow!
IZIS – 12th Festival of Audio-Visual and New Media Art 2024
JUST CONTROL – group exhibition
Libertas, Koper
opening: 4 October 2024
exhibition: 5-20 October 2024
curator: Irena Boric
Igor Štromajer: Expunction, 2000 · 2011 · 2024
https://intima.info/2024/09/13/izis
On March 13, 2000, I programmed the first known artwork for #UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) cell phones, which used the then standard #WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) to access the Internet. The title of the work was 'wap.sonnet – microbe.4/wap.art', and among the 30 other files that made up the whole, it included a file called ctrl.base.wml (1.29 kB), which was responsible for controlling and managing the piece.
On May 16, 2011, as part of the ritual deletion of my net art works called Expunction, I deleted the entire wap.sonnet of 17 kB from my intima server, and with it also the ctrl.base.wml file.
The exhibition presents an exposed Toshiba MK2109MAT 2GB 5.4K IDE 2.5″ hard disk drive, loaded with a single, isolated control file, deleted from the server in 2011, but carefully preserved in my archive – ctrl.base.wml.
file name: ctrl.base.wml
storage device: HDD Toshiba MK2109MAT 2GB 5.4K IDE 2.5″
file type: WML · Wireless Markup Language
size: 1.29 kB · 1.291 bytes
created: 13/03/2000 12:09:07 Ljubljana
deleted: 16/05/2011 23:17:33 Hamburg
attributes: R · read-only
status: deleted
Images:
– AI study of the exhibited work
– HDD Toshiba 2GB IDE 2.5″
– screenshots: wap.sonnet - microbe.4/wap.art (2000) · part of the Mobile Trilogy (micro gsm/gps/wap.art trilogy, 1999-2000)
https://intima.org/expunction/wapart
"WAP is dead!"
David Rensin, 2000
"The idea that WML replaces HTML is silly."
Rob Enderle, 2000
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https://festival-izis.org/en/just-control
· artists at the exhibition: Sara Bezovšek, Živa Božičnik Rebec, Marc Lee, Neža Knez in Vida Guzmić, Matej Mihevc, Petra Mrša, Martin Nadal, Sybille Neumeyer, OR poiesis (Petra Kapš), SOLL (Miro Roman, Silvio Vujičić), Igor Štromajer