Igor Štromajer

Igor Štromajer (b. Dec 29, 1967 in Maribor, Slovenia) is a multimedia artist who describes himself as "an intimate mobile communicator". His oeuvre comprises 50 projects presented at 100 exhibitions in 50 countries on all the continents.

His work "Intima" is a web-based fictional biography of an astronaut. [Stephen Wilson, "Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology", MIT Press, 2002, p570. ISBN 0262731584] His two most widely known works are "Oppera Internettikka" and "Ballettikka Internettikka" (1997–2006). He has received several awards for his work (in Moscow, Hamburg, Dresden, Belfort, and Madrid), and his projects form part of the permanent collections of the most 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 Sofia in Madrid, the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, and the Computerfinearts Gallery - net and media art collection in New York.

His multimedia projects research tactical emotional states, intimate political guerrilla, and traumatic low-tech strategies. He lectures as a guest artist at universities and contemporary art institutes in Europe and North America.

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* [http://www.centrepompidou.fr/sitesweb/stromajer/smn/ Exhibit at Le Centre national d'art et de Culture Georges Pompidou]
* [http://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/_aext/strom.htm Bio details at Hamburger Kunsthalle]
* [http://www.intima.org/ Intima Virtual Base – www.intima.org]
* [http://www.laudanum.net/cgi-bin/media.cgi?action=display&id=1182777521 Review of works including Stromajer's by Josephine Bosma]