Dagmar Schürrer

Undula is derived from the Latin word for ,,small wave" and is often used to describe organic flowing forms inspired by nature. The slowly squirming shapes drifting across the LED wall recall visual motifs recurrent in Schürrer’s digital animations: tentacles, brain waves, cell structures, or microbial organisms. Oscillating between biomorphic silhouettes and stylized computational aesthetics, Undula wraps algorithmic image creation in a soft, tactile skin and invites reflection on the tension between algorithmic surface and organic sensation.

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).