[dance-tech] Ballettikka Internettikka: Hydraullikka

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Ballettikka Internettikka: Hydraullikka
by Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman

http://www.intima.org/bi/hyd
May 2008

After digitally igniting a robot with computer software (Ballettikka
Internettikka: Olymppikka; March 2008; www.intima.org/bi/bi-ol), Stromajer and
Zorman are pressing, flattening and grinding two fragile robots-in-love with
merciless heavy hydraulic press machine (800 tons).

VIDEO documentation

Internet broadcast (using 5 synchronized cameras) from Gorenje, Velenje,
Slovenia to Plaza del Rey (Baile electrónico / Bal numérique, public urban
screening), Madrid, Spain (10 May 2008)

- created, operated & realized by Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman
- soundtrack composed by MC Brane vs. BeitThroN vs. Thronus Sound System
- camera by I. Stromajer, B. Zorman, Robi Klancnik
- theoretical adviser: Bojana Kunst, Ljubljana
- special thanks to Vlado Gotvan Repnik, Janez Jansa, Nathalie Hénon,
Jean-François Rettig, Arturo Enrique Moreno Reyes

Produced by Intima Virtual Base - Institute for Contemporary Arts in
collaboration with BeitThroN vs. Thronus Sound System, Ljubljana; roARaTorio,
Paris; Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin/Madrid 

Very special thanks to Gorenje Group, Velenje, Slovenia.

Ballettikka Internettikka is an ongoing artistic study of the internet guerrilla
performance:
http://www.intima.org/bi

"We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them on the landing grounds.
We shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We
shall never surrender."
(W. Churchill)

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About the authors:

Igor Stromajer
http://www.intima.org
is an intimate mobile communicator. He researches tactical emotional states and
traumatic low-tech strategies. He has shown his work at more than a hundred
exhibitions in forty-two countries and received a number of awards. His works
are included in the permanent collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris;
the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Moderna galerija
Ljubljana, Slovenia; Computerfinearts Gallery, New York and others.

Brane Zorman
http://www.ljudmila.org/beitthron
is a composer and sound manipulator. Between 1982 and 1986 he was frontman for
the Slovene punk group O!KULT. He is a pioneer of the Slovene techno scene.
Since 1987 he has been composing music for both Slovene and international
theatre, dance and multimedia performances and projects and has made guest
appearances throughout Europe. Recently he works with Irena Pivka on a series of
audio-visual installations ZONE (www.cona.si).

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http://www.intima.org
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