Our first event this year is the Berlin presentation of a new book of #Unicode #poems by Igor Štromajer @intima and his computers.
🗓️ Friday, 24 January 2025 at 18:00
📍 /rosa – Zentrum für Netzkunst (Heidelberger Str. 28, 12059 Berlin, Alt-Treptow/Neukölln)
https://panke.gallery/event/unicode-stromajer
Part of Unofficial #Vorspiel 2025:
https://unofficial.vorspiel2025.xyz
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#IgorStromajer: 3¦×Fń–Qé3=Mià+
· one hundred and one poems co-written by a human and a machine
The poems were generated between 2013 and 2018 by semi-automatic conversion of .jpg and .gif image files from the author's deleted net art works [1996-2007; 2011] into text form using the Unicode Encoding Standard.
· 112 pages, softcover, thread-sewn, 500 copies, published by Kibla, Maribor, November 2024
The Berlin presentation is kindly supported by the Slovenian Cultural Information Center SKICA Berlin.
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Igor Štromajer · https://intima.org – "the Pavarotti of HTML" – 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, Les Rencontres Internationales, The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale and in numerous other galleries and museums worldwide) and received a number of awards (in Frankfurt, Moscow, Hamburg, Dresden, Belfort, Madrid, Maribor, Podgorica). His projects form part of the permanent collections of the prestigious art institutions, among them Le Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, Computerfinearts – net and media art collection in New York, and Maribor Art Gallery in Slovenia.
3¦×Q-1=M+ · panke.gallery
panke.gallery seeks to open up a dialogue between established and emerging artists whose work comes out of the connections between digital or net-based art and club culture, especially in the recent history of Berlin. Its program of exhibitions and events takes place in a gallery space within the premises of panke.club.


