Artist Talk: Dagmar Schürrer
A conversation on the ever-evolving relationship between technology and perception
Image credit: © Birgit von Bally
Get to know Dagmar Schürrer and her artistic practice in this artist talk – starting with her current installation Undula (currently on view on the façade of our museum). The work, whose title translates to ‘small wave’, unfolds as slowly shifting, biomorphic forms that recall cells, brain waves, and microbial life. Together, they form a piece of work where algorithmic image-making meets organic sensation.
Apart from that, Dagmar reflects in this talk on her artistic journey, her biology-inspired approach, and introduces the role of the medienkunstverein (mkv). The association serves as a non-profit platform that fosters experimental presentation formats and discourse around contemporary media art.
The talk is moderated by Peggy Schoenegge (art historian, independent curator, author) who is, amongst other things, part of the medienkunstverein (mkv) as head of board.
About the artist
Dagmar Schürrer is an Austrian digital artist based in Berlin and works in the field of expanded animation and extended reality (XR) technologies. Her artistic practice is often inspired by scientific concepts from biology and neuroscience. In her hybrid experiences, she links these with new technologies as XR and Artificial Intelligence, digital world building and poetic interpretations of human consciousness and its environmental entanglements. With intricate animations and spatial multimedia installations, she creates contemplative spaces to reflect on the evolving relationship between technology and perception.
Her works have been presented internationally at festivals and exhibitions, including the New Contemporaries at the ICA London, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Louvre Auditorium Paris, Eunam Museum South Korea, Ars Electronica Linz, the Museum of Waste in Changsha, China, ISEA Seoul, Belvedere21 in Vienna and Tate Modern London. She is an artistic research assistant and workshop leader for XR development at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin and board member of the Berlin media art association (medienkunstverein).
About the moderator
Peggy Schoenegge is an art historian, independent curator, author, and project manager of the exhibition platform peer to space, as well as head of board of medienkunstverein (mkv) in Berlin. Her work addresses the conditions and challenges of digitalization and its impact on our daily lives, society, and culture.
In physical and virtual spaces, she curates international group exhibitions featuring digital art, internet art, and new media art in cities including New York, Barcelona, and Berlin. She lectures internationally at conferences and events in collaboration with institutions such as ZKM (Karlsruhe), the German Ethics Council, and Immersive Tech Week (Rotterdam).
Additionally, she teaches in the field of cultural informatics at HTW Berlin. Peggy Schoenegge is currently pursuing her phd at the University of Bonn, researching the theoretical and practical implications of web-based spaces of art and their development from the early internet to the present day.