Reiner Strasser is known for his work as both a web.artist and an organizer/curator of web.art projects. Since 1996, Strasser has created a large and significant body of web.art, often in collaboration with other artists.

The primary site for Reiner's work is netartefact.de. The work is varied technologically from masterful Javascript through Quicktime and Flash work. In it, we see a recurring concern with connecting web.art with nature and the natural. This is an ambitious project with generosity of spirit, and no mean feat, given the artificiality/virtuality of the Web.

Compare the concern with nature in Strasser's work with Stanza's approach, for instance. Stanza's work focusses on the urban, thematically, and the look of the work is highly digital. The 'natural' seems somewhat out of place in the digital, often, but Strasser's work has dealt with this issue better than most.

We also see in Strasser's work a synthesis of the literary, the photographic, video, and the interactive. Additionally, we see many fruitful collaborative works with other Web.artists around the world.

This aspect of global collaboration and working together is surely a strong element of web.art itself, and is well-realized in Strasser's work.

He curated the Weak Blood project, which involved work from many different countries. It was a protest against the bombings by NATO in Kosovo and Serbia in 1999. Weak Blood was written about in The New York Times and some of the work was shown at the Metropolitan Art Museum in Tokyo. But primarily, it was an international web.art project. He also curated the more recent Project Hope.

Strasser's work is particularly well-known and regarded by the visual poets of the Web, and it is indeed highly poetical work, fluid, articulate, visually striking, and lyrically meditative in ways specific to a new art. And the choices and decisions he offers those who experience his work draw the wreader into a thinking through his carefully realized art.

Reiner Strasser lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.