<nettime> EastUnBloc: Net Art Gallery Surfing Session December 11, 2025, 7 pm onsite at ngbK and online

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 EastUnBloc: Net Art Gallery Surfing Session

Thu, 11.12.25, 7.00 pm Type: Language: English Location: nGbK Address:
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11, 10178 Berlin, 1st floor Admission: free

on site and online at:  https://www.panke.gallery/streaming/

ngbk.de

Curator Sakrowski and artist Igor Štromajer browse and chat about net art
activities on the web. Live at nGbK and online.

Igor Štromajer, intima.org – „the Pavarotti of HTML“ (Libération) –
researches tactical emotional actions, intimate guerrilla, and traumatic
low-tech communication strategies. He has shown his work at more than two
hundred fifty exhibitions in more than sixty countries (transmediale, ISEA,
EMAF, SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica Futurelab, V2_, IMPAKT, CYNETART,
Manifesta, FILE, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Hamburg Kunsthalle, ARCO,
Microwave, Banff Centre and many more) and received a number of awards (in
Frankfurt, Moscow, Hamburg, Dresden, Belfort, Madrid, Maribor, Podgorica).
His projects form part of the permanent collections of several 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 Sofía in Madrid, Computerfinearts – net and media art
collection in New York, and Maribor Art Gallery in Slovenia. As a guest
artist he lectures at universities and contemporary art institutes.

Sakrowski holds a master‘s degree in art history and works as a curator in
Berlin. From 1999 – 2003 he curated and organized exhibitions and lectures
on net art as part of the netart-datenbank.org project. From 2007 to 2009
he worked as a researcher on the Netzpioniere 1.0 research project at the
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research in Linz. Since 2007, under
the name CuratingYouTube.net, he has been working intensively with the
web.video phenomena and, with gridr.org (2012), he provides an online tool
specially designed for this purpose. In 2014/15 he worked for the
transmediale festival 2015 capture all as curator. Since October 2016, he
has managed and curated the panke.gallery in Berlin-Wedding. He is a
founding member (2019) of the Center for Net Art. In 2022 he opened with
the Center for Net Art and panke.gallery the project space /rosa. In 2021
he developed the web platform openAR (2021) for the presentation and
curation of web-based augmented reality objects.

Event program of the exhibition EastUnBloc:
https://ngbk.de/en/programm/programm/eastunbloc
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