Nagla Samir is an Egyptian contemporary artist and interdisciplinary media artist whose practice has been shaped by a continuous engagement with emerging technologies and their potential as artistic media. Working across photography, digital image-making, video, CGI, virtual environments, installation, and generative art, she has consistently explored how new tools can expand the language of contemporary art.

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Since the early 2000s, Samir has been experimenting with digital images and new media, at a time when digital technology was still emerging as a space for artistic expression. Rather than treating technology simply as a means of production, she has approached each new development as an opportunity to question how images are made, perceived, and experienced.

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Her practice has continued to evolve alongside technological change. Early experiments with digital photography and photomontage developed into increasingly complex forms of image manipulation and multimedia installation. By the early 2020s, her work had expanded into virtual environments, CGI, and moving image, creating immersive and time-based experiences such as Fluctuated Moments: Joyride. More recently, she has been experimenting with generative art and artificial intelligence, inviting these emerging technologies into her artistic process through projects such as Grasp. In the work, AI-generated imagery becomes raw material for collage, photomontage, narrative construction, and animation, while raising questions around authorship, perception, imagination, and the relationship between artist and machine.

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This continuous movement toward the new is a defining characteristic of Samir's practice. She approaches each generation of technology as something to be tested, questioned, and pushed beyond its conventional application—bringing tools from emerging technological and creative industries into the realm of artistic expression. Across different periods and mediums, this experimentation has remained a constant: the technology changes, but the impulse to explore what it can make possible within art remains.

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Alongside this technological exploration, Samir's work engages with questions of identity, memory, cultural heritage, representation, visual culture, migration, spirituality, mortality, and the relationship between individuals and the societies they inhabit. Her practice moves between constructed imagery, archival material, digital manipulation, moving image, and installation, often using technological processes to examine how personal and collective realities are constructed and represented.

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This approach has positioned Samir within the early generation of artists in Egypt engaging with digital and media art, while allowing her practice to continually evolve alongside new forms of image-making and emerging technology.

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Her work has been exhibited internationally, including I AM: Middle Eastern Women Artists and the Quest to Build Peace, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, and exhibitions and presentations across Egypt, the Middle East, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her broader practice also extends into curating and cultural production, creating an ongoing dialogue between artistic practice, contemporary media, and the wider cultural landscape.