🟣 Igor Štromajer: .else.if

Slovenian artist Igor Štromajer presents “.else.if”, an interactive digital exhibition premiering ten collaborative poems created by both human and machine. This innovative interface is designed for mobile devices and accessible exclusively via Wi-Fi on St. Mark’s Square in Korčula.

The project emerges from Štromajer’s 2011 ritualistic act of deleting 37 of his early net art works (1996–2007) in the piece Expunction – Deleting intima.org Net Art Works. While these works were erased from his own server, several were preserved in prestigious collections such as Centre Pompidou (Paris), Ars Electronica Lab (Linz), Computer Fine Arts Gallery (New York), and Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid).

The poems in .else.if (created between 2013 and 2018) were generated through semi-automatic conversion of image files (.jpg, .gif) from his deleted artworks into Unicode-based text—a poetic resurrection of lost digital art through code and verse.

🖱 Access the exhibition at any time using your mobile device by connecting to the Wi-Fi network ‘siva) (zona’ on-site.

Organized by siva) (zona – space for contemporary and media art (Korčula) in collaboration with Format C (Zagreb) and the Korčula City Museum.

🔗 More info: sivazona.hr/events/igor-stromajer