Hi,

I am a curator and cultural producer based in Berlin and the co-managing director of Error 417 Expectation Failed, an independent foundation that supports contemporary Internet art. I have a Master’s degree in Cultural Sciences with a focus on Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media from Leuphana University. Since 2020, I have been regularly curating at panke.gallery, an exhibition space for net-based arts, and have also co-founded the project space /rosa in Berlin. My focus is on art that explores the conditions of contemporary networked technologies. I am enthusiastic about facilitating spaces where people can come together to experience and discuss critical and socially engaged net-based arts.

Currently, I am co-curating the group exhibition From the Ashes of the Burnout Machines, featuring artists such as Sam Lavigne, Mario Santamaria, Marco Donnarumma and S()fia Braga for AMRO 2026, Art Meets Radical Openness, a festival dedicated to art, hacktivism and open cultures in Linz, Austria. In the exhibition, we use "burnout" as a diagnostic lens through which to understand the contemporary moment: a state produced by regimes of extraction, acceleration and exhaustion that operate simultaneously on bodies, environments and technological systems.

I am also supporting the artist group !Mediengruppe Bitnik and Kunsthalle Osnabrück's collaborative artistic research project School of Cow Comfort which intervenes into the space of data-based technologies and agriculture.

And, with Error 417, we have just published an open call for projects for which I have written an essay on Netstalgia Not Acceptable – The Internet We Want.

✉ Email me at: noemi.garay[at]panke[dot]gallery