SANJA STAR (b. 1982, Croatia) is a Berlin-based transdisciplinary artist and performer working with real-time audiovisual systems, generative processes, and digital abstraction. Her practice investigates how sound, light, and geometry interact as material and perceptual systems, including wearable and responsive interfaces that allow emergent visual behavior to unfold in live, collaborative performance.
Integrating 3D animation, sound design, and live improvisation, Star constructs dynamic environments where perception, time, and sensory thresholds are explored as research material. She is a core member of the audiovisual ensemble Pitch Shifting and serves on the board of Richten25, Berlin.
Stop Over 1 at Alte Münze Berlin - photo Henry Schulz
SANJA STAR (b. 1982, Croatia) is a Berlin-based transdisciplinary artist, educator, and performer whose work investigates the thresholds of perception through post-digital, system-oriented practice. Integrating 3D animation, sound design, real-time performance, and computational systems, her research explores the immaterial architectures of light, frequency, and geometry, drawing conceptual inspiration from quantum physics, cymatics, and esoteric knowledge systems.
Operating across live audiovisual performance, immersive installation, and transmedia contexts, Star constructs perceptual ecologies in which sensory experience is generated through dynamic, responsive systems, including wearable and interactive interfaces. Central to her methodology is a sonic-illustration approach, translating sound frequencies into evolving visual behavior, often in collaboration with experimental sound practitioners. Her practice critically engages with abstraction, pareidolia, and the emergent interplay of image and sound, producing research-driven insights into perception, embodiment, and digital aesthetics.
Star’s work has been presented internationally through residencies at Alte Münze Berlin, School of Machines Berlin, Fluxus Wiesbaden, FUNKEN Akademie + MAIN Research Center, Planet Ears Art Residency, and the Silk Road International Art Residency, Xi’an. She has performed at festivals and institutions including Museum of Applied Arts Cologne and the Music Biennale Zagreb, collaborating with a wide range of experimental musicians and composers.
As a core member of the audiovisual ensemble Pitch Shifting and a board member of Richten25, Star contributes to research, education, and curatorial initiatives in experimental sound and visual arts. She has facilitated workshops and guest lectures at SRH University Berlin, HMKW University, Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts and Technology, and School of Sound Berlin, generating new knowledge at the intersection of art, sound, and technology.
Through her practice, Star develops experimental frameworks for perception, producing both aesthetic and research-oriented contributions to contemporary media art and transdisciplinary exploration.