Lisa Jamhoury
Lisa Jamhoury is a Lebanese-American movement artist and programmer creating embodied, computational experiences. Through live productions, installations, and websites, her practice draws on contemporary circus and mindfulness as means to engage trauma and encourage a consensual, celebratory approach to humanity’s shared physicality. Lisa’s interactive performances choreograph the relationship between physical and virtual presence: minimal costumes and theatrics reveal the body’s natural grandeur, while wearable sensors allow the performers to drive digital stories through movement. Inspired by the space that people share online, Lisa uses computer vision, machine learning, and peer-to-peer networking to create installations and live telematic performances that explore the phenomenology of the extended virtual body. Lisa’s current projects examine the beauty and danger of averaging in design and computation through a sculptural lens, and the role of maternal bodies in virtual spaces.