Robots & Algorithms | Window Projections
Window projections from May 21 to June 3, 2023 after dark on our storefront windows. The work can be seen in-house during our opening hours at the institute (1626 boul. St-Laurent, H2X 2T1 Montreal, QC).
Galaxy
2020, Video, 3'48
Direction: Dagmar Schürrer
The narrator in the moving image work GALAXY is technology itself. The story is generated by an algorithm and offers an interpretation of an encounter of love and disappointment, by telling about the brief meeting of the two characters Touch and Long Swipe. 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.
About Dagmar Schürrer
Dagmar Schürrer is an Austrian new media artist based in Berlin, Germany. She assembles digitally generated objects and animations, text and sound to form intricate video sound montages and installations, often extended by Augmented Reality applications.
Significant international presentation of her works include ICA London; Moscow Biennale for Young Art; Centre Pompidou Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin; Louvre Auditorium Paris; Transmediale Vorspiel Berlin; Museum of Waste, Changsha, China; SUPERNOVA, Denver; and Diagonale Film Festival, Graz. She is a research assistant at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin, where she teaches AR technologies and supports the production of AR applications in the field of art and culture. As a board member of the Berlin media art association she is committed to supporting new forms of presentation of contemporary new media art.
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