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Barbara STERK is
a sociologist and media artist interested in the
techno-social and critical aspects of the usage of
technical media and interaction. She studied
sociology in Budapest and Pécs. Her Master thesis
was conducted by Robert ANGELUSZ about the role of
information technologies in the formation of social
experience. Afterwards she took part in a one
year-long German research programme at the Bauhaus
Kolleg in Dessau. Within this transdisciplinary
study there were architects, fine artists and
social researchers investigated the cultural, urban
and social transition of the post-socialist
corridor Berlin-Moscow. The result were three
thematic Bauhaus exhibitions and a summarizing book
"Transit Spaces". In 2005 she has attended an MA on
Digital Media at Goldsmiths College, University of
London. The supervisor of her thesis - that is the
presence of positivism in contemporary media art -
was Sarah Kember. Her practical work involved the
installation "Potential Invocation", where past -
considered as virtual - was taken under the process
of actualisation through space with the
participation of the visitors. Her other works are
mainly deal with classic and post-digital
media-theoretical issues.
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