Igor Štromajer (born December 29, 1967, in Maribor,
Slovenia
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) is a multimedia
artist
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who describes himself as "an intimate mobile communicator".
His work ''Intima'' is a web-based
fiction
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al
biography
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of an
astronaut
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.
[Stephen Wilson, ''Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology'', MIT Press, 2002, p570. ]
See also
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Intima Virtual Base
References
Sources
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External links
Exhibit at Le Centre national d'art et de Culture Georges PompidouIntima Virtual Base – www.intima.orgReview of works including Stromajer's by Josephine Bosma
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Artists from Maribor
New media artists
Living people
1967 births