The narrator in the moving image work GALAXY is technology itself. The story is generated by an algorithm and offers an interpretation of the brief meeting of the two characters Touch and Long Swipe, an encounter of love and disappointment. Small deviations in the language and the narrative logic reveal our social imprint of how stories are expected to be told and how technology is programmed to follow these perceptions. The mise en scéne is a computer-generated galaxy of objects and images reminiscent of the organic, but dismembered and fragmented, reflecting on the possibility of creating new worlds and stories in digital space by following a subjective system of ordering.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column]
Dagmar Schürrer is an Austrian media artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her moving images reflect on the surface of digital imagery and their patterns and repetitions, on late capitalist paranoia and projected utopian futures and our relationship to technological development within the digital and the analogue. Her work has been exhibited internationally, amongst others at the ICA London, the Moscow Biennale for Young Art, at the Museum of Waste in Changsha, China, the Transmediale Vorspiel Berlin, Rencontres International at the Louvre Auditorium, Paris, SUPERNOVA in Denver, Seattle Film Festival or the Diagonale Film Festival in Graz. As a board member of the Berlin media art association, she is committed to supporting new forms of presentation of contemporary media art.
