BIOGRAPHY
Dora Tomic (lives and works in Cologne) is a Croatian-born composer and sound artist whose work focuses on experimental sound, audiovisual installation and immersive audio. Through her sound art installations and live performances she seeks to expand physical space by exploring new dimensions of immersive spatial sound and pushing the boundaries of her sound art environments.
Her sound works exist at the intersection of experimental Ambisonics soundscapes and organic and synthetic textures. The resulting atmospheric audiovisual experiences guide audiences through evolving and unfamiliar sonic landscapes.
She establishes herself as a multifaceted audiovisual artist whose work brings sound, space, and image into close dialogue. Her artistic practice has received multiple awards, grants, and funding support. In her ongoing artistic development, she aims to establish immersive audiovisual performances as an independent artistic form within the sound art landscape.
ABOUT HER WORK
Dora’s work explores the evolving dynamics and transformations that emerge through the interplay of diverse sonic and visual textures within complex artistic compositions. Her practice brings together organic soundscapes and freely improvised synthetic textures, questioning the relationship between seemingly incompatible elements while challenging established listening concepts and conventional modes of perception.
Her theoretical and artistic research focuses on psychoacoustics, electroacoustic music, and immersive sound design. Through her practice, Dora investigates immersive sound and audiovisual installation as mediums of artistic expression and social reflection, contributing to the advancement of both their theoretical discourse and creative application.
VITA:+
DORA TOMIC * Born in Croatia / Lives and works in Cologne, Germany
2015- 2019 Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Diplom II, Cologne, Germany
* Diploma with distinction
2017- 2018 Emerson College, VMA, exchange programme, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
* DAAD PROMOS Scholarship
2012- 2015 Master at Art Academy in Osijek, Department of Multimedia, Croatia
* Dean Award for successful work during the academic year 2012/2013 on the Art Academy, Osijek, Croatia
* Award for the best Multimedia work on the Art Academy, Osijek, Croatia
2009- 2012 Baccalaureus at Art Academy in Osijek, Department of Fine Art, Croatia
Scholarships / Grants / Residencies:
2025 Biehler Dorrer Foundation, Experimental Sound Art / Audiovisual Installation Art Grant, Munich, DE
2023 The Music-Fund working Grant for Musicians, Composers and Sound Artists, Musikfonds e.V, Berlin, DE
2022 Stiftung Kunstfonds, working scholarship for freelance artists, Bonn, DE
2021 Scholarship program-Stiftung Kulturwerk der Bild-Kunst, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, DE
2020 Artistic Fellowship Program of the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, DE
2019 Residency with sound artist and bioacousticist Bernie Krause, Nantesbuch Foundation, in cooperation with Biotopia Naturkundemuseum Bayern, Munich, DE
2017 DAAD scholarship PROMOS, DE
2013 Dean Award for successful work during the academic year 2012/2013 on the Art Academy, Osijek, HR
2013 Award for the best Multimedia work on the Art Academy, Osijek, HR
2013 AQB residency, Art Quarter Budapest, Budapest, HU
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS // PERFORMANCES:
2025 EXORDIUM, ZKM Hertzlab – Sound Art in Transition: Series »TURNS« in the Virtual Space; compositions from the ZKM Sound Dome, selected and curated by invitation by Dr. Lea Luka Sikau and Götz Dipper, Karlsruhe, DE
2025 Sounding Future, EXORDIUM – 360° ambisonics (HOA), 2nd order, AmbiX / Binaural Electroacoustic Music Composition, 3D AudioSpace online showcase, curated by Fränk Zimmer, DE
2024 When We Cease to Understand the World, The Rewilding, Electroacoustic Music Composition for an audiovisual spatial installation, Galway Arts Festival, Interface Inagh, IE
2023 Morphic Infinity – Audiovisual Electroacoustic Performance, in collaboration with Theresia Enzensberger, Stiftung Kunst und Natur, Germany, DE
2023 UNFURLED – Experimental Electroacoustic Music Composition for a Public Audiovisual Mapping Installation, Rencontres Audiovisuelles, in collaboration with VAMOS Animation, Notre-Dame d’Amiens, Amiens, FR
2022 Saepenumero, audiovisual installation, SUK, Berlin, DE
2021 Kunst und Natur Show – Audiovisual Electroacoustic Installation, Museum of Urban & Contemporary Art – MUCA, Munich, Germany, DE
2021 Condolences – Original Score, Electroacoustic Music Composition, Director: Ashley Ohman, Germany, DE
2020 Anthropocene Days – Audiovisual Installation, Group Exhibition, Stiftung Nantesbuch, Germany
2020 AITSC – Audiovisual Installation, in collaboration with director Clare Langan, Dublin, Ireland
2020 Destino – Audiovisual Work, Ambisonics Spatial Sound, in collaboration with Maurits Boettger, Videonale e.V., Bonn, Germany
2019 I Don’t Worry About Borders Anymore – Immersive Sound Installation “Sound Ecology,” a project with sound artist and bioacoustician Bernie Krause, Stiftung Nantesbuch, in collaboration with Biotopia Naturkundemuseum Bavaria and Dr. Michael John Gorman, Munich, Germany
2018 Exhumed / Synthesis of Textures – Multichannel Audiovisual Installation, Boston, USA
2018 Saepenumero – Audiovisual Multichannel Performance, Aula, KHM, Cologne, Germany, DE
2018 Temporal Shift / Irregular Flux – Experimental Sound Art, Vinyl Release, Various Artists, Cologne, Germany, DE
2018 Drift – Music Composition for the Installation res-o-nant by Mischa Kuball, J.M. Berlin, Germany, DE
2017 NordArt 2017 – Selected Juried Exhibition, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, Germany, DE
2017 Nut – Multichannel Music Performance, in collaboration with A. Weyler, K. Maister, Klanglabor, Cologne, Germany, DE
2016 Rank Hypocrisy – Media Installation, Group Exhibition, Flexzone, Cologne, Germany, DE
2016 Revenio – Multichannel Music Performance, Klanglabor, Cologne, Germany, DE
2016 Invisible Division – Media Installation, Group Exhibition, FZ, Cologne, Germany, DE
2016 NS-Dok – Group Exhibition, Monument’s Design, Memorial for the NSU Attacks-Keupstraße, Cologne, Germany, DE
2015 Projekt Kunstraum D. – Group Exhibition, V8 Platform for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, DE
2015 Public-Work-Context – Audiovisual Spatial Installation, Group Exhibition, Culture and Media Center Eurodom, Osijek, Croatia, HR
2015 II-III – Solo Exhibition and Audiovisual Concert, Popup Osijek, Croatia HR
2015 Project Media Space – Group Exhibition, Timișoara, Romania, RO
2015 Mobilizing The Immobilization – Solo Exhibition, Museum Đakovo, Croatia, HR
2014 Flickering Colors – Public Multimedia Group Exhibition, Ulm, Germany, DE
2014 Digital Transylvania – International Festival for New Media Art, Târgu Mureș, Romania, RO
2014 Awarded Student Exhibition – Prica Gallery, Samobor, Croatia, HR
2014 Irreversible Process – Audiovisual Electroacoustic Performance, UAOS, Osijek, Croatia, HR
2013 Drava Art Biennale – Installation, Galerie Koprivnica, Koprivnica, Croatia, HR
2013 Critical Timing – Installation, 4th Shortz Media Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia, SRB
2013 Layers of Rationalization – Art Placc, Exhibition for Contemporary Media Art, Tihany, Hungary, HU
2013 Critical Timing – Installation, Crosstalk Media Art Festival, Higgs Field, Budapest, Hungary, HU
