Rebecca Merlic (DE/HR/AT, *1989 in Germany) is a European digital artist and architect and experimental filmmaker. She graduated with distinction at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she studied under Wolfgang Tschapeller, Francois Roché and Michael Hannsmeyer.
During her masters she was able to study at Astushi KITAGAWARA Lab at Tokyo University of the Arts GEIDAI.

Her work is strongly influenced by alternative ways of society and transgression in socioeconomic conventions as well as new forms of artistic and architectural production employing new technologies. She is the holder of the Marianne von Willemer Prize 2020 for digital media. Currently she is a transdisciplinary resident at European Alliance of Academies: Ignorance is Strength AIR program by HDLU Zagreb and Akademie der Künste Berlin, and she is working on DOMUM in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum in Tokyo and V2 Rotterdam residency Realities in Transition.

Recently her work was shown at SLAMDANCE (Utah, US), New Cinema Days (Manchester, UK), Belvedere + Belvedere21 (Vienna, AT), ADAF (Athens, GR), ARS ELECTRONICA (Linz, AT), Austrian Cultural Forum (Tokyo, JP), V2 (Rotterdam, NL), Ethnographic Museum (Zagreb, HR).

Talks

• Deep Space 8k – Animation Festival: Rebecca Merlic
• Virtual Stages – Rebecca Merlic: GLITCHBODIES