Oppera Internettikka - Protection et Sécurité

by Annie Abrahams and Igor Stromajer

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Oppera Internettikka - Protection et Sécurité explores the poetics of a contemporary sound form: live opera as a sound event in the form of a live Internet audio broadcast. It combines Internet protocols with a classical art space: the opera house. In essence, the project bridges two different spaces: Opera, which is a traditional art form with much passion and the Internet, a lonely place becoming more and more fragile, hostile and suspicious.

Annie Abrahams and Igor Stromajer Bios
Annie Abrahams is an artist who has worked on the net since 1996. She was born in 1954 in Hilvarenbeek, the Netherlands and lives in Montpellier, France. She obtained a doctorate in biology at the university of Utrecht and graduated as a painter at the art school of Arnhem. Most of Abrahams's work is featured on her site Being Human / Etant Humain. She has participated in numerous international film and media festivals (Skopje, Mexico City, Tallinn, Seoul, Atlanta, Montreal, Athens, Clermont Ferrand, Tokyo, Bristol, Seattle, Split, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Moscou etc). Annie Abrahams also makes video, installation and performance pieces.

Igor Stromajer (born 1967) graduated at The Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Lives and works mostly in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Stromajer is an intimate mobile communicator and multimedia communication artist. He researches tactical emotional states and traumatic low-tech emotional strategies. He has shown his work at more than hundred exhibitions and festivals in forty-two countries and received a number of awards (Moscow, Hamburg, Dresden, Belfort, Madrid, and Maribor). As artist-in-residence he lectures at universities and contemporary art institutes in Europe, USA and Canada. Since 1996 he runs Intima Virtual Base, a contemporary arts institute. Intima Virtual Base is an artistic mark for low-tech tactical emotional communication art, contemporary arts actions and sound research. Basic substance: intimate, ascetic and interactive aesthetics. The key words for all activities are seclusion and ascetics. These imply intimacy, which after all is emphasized in the name of the artistic mark.