“Where does the rest of the world begin? “

‘Where does the rest of the world begin?’ (2024)reflects on the deep entanglements of human consciousness, natural environment, and current technology. With a multimedia installation consisting of two digital animations, 3D prints and an interactive Mixed Reality experience, she creates a spatial narrative in which she poetically links the scientific concepts of symbiosis and neural synchrony and applies those to our existence in the postdigital. Both theoretical approaches highlight the inter-connectivity of all organic and non-organic agents, challenging concepts of individuality, singular consciousness, and subjectivity. In this artistic engagement, the boundaries blur not only between digital and analog but also between human and technology, and thus between nature and culture. Thus, new media can be used in a way to promote a society characterized by fair coexistence, innovations, and the conscious use of technologies.

Dagmar Schürrer
Dagmar Schürrer is an Austrian digital artist based in Berlin and works in the field of expanded animation and Extended Reality (XR) technologies. In her hybrid experiences, she links (Neuro-) sciences, new technologies as XR and Artificial Intelligence, digital world building and poetic interpretations of human consciousness and its environmental entanglements, to create intricate animations and spatial multimedia installations. Her works have been presented internationally at festivals and exhibitions, including the New Contemporaries at the ICA London, the Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Louvre Auditorium Paris, Eunam Museum South Korea, Ars Electronica Linz, the Museum of Waste in Changsha, China, ISEA Brisbane, Belvedere 21 in Vienna and Tate Modern London, UK. 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).