About
Lisa Jamhoury is a Lebanese-American movement artist and programmer creating embodied, computational experiences. Rooted in contemporary circus and mindfulness, her practice includes interactive performances, installations, and websites that encourage a consensual, celebratory approach to humanity’s shared physicality.
As an aerial acrobat, Lisa has choreographed and performed across the United States, including commissioned work for the Streb Lab for Action Mechanics and TEDx Brooklyn.
Her computational work has been recognized by Ars Electronica Concrete House, Meta Open Arts, Google xStory, the Conference on Movement and Computing, Media Art Xploration (MAX), CultureHub, Contemporary Art Society, and others.
Lisa is a member at Onassis ONX and NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator for art, design and technology. She teaches at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where she completed her masters degree. Lisa built and maintains the open source tool, Kinectron, among other tools.
Earlier in her career, Lisa worked at Adobe Design as a senior designer for machine intelligence, where she focused on integrating AI/ML into creative tools and workflows. Previously, she was founding chief digital officer at boutique nonfiction media company, Blue Chalk Media.
Lisa lives and works in Burlington, VT, and New York, NY.
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Education
2017 M.P.S. Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University, New York, NY
2007 B.A. Political Science, Summa Cum Laude, Pace University, New York, NY
Non-Degree Education
2021 Getting Situated in Augmented Reality, Instructor: Zach Lieberman, School For Poetic Computation, New York, NY
2020 Recreating the Past, Instructor: Zach Lieberman, School For Poetic Computation, New York, NY
Exhibitions and Performances
2024 The Space Between, Sellasia Laconia, Greece (forthcoming)
2024 Digital Bodies Festival, London, UK
2024 Forum LAB7, 7 doigts de la main, Montreal, Canada
2024 GUI/GOOEY, Plexus Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Glow: Illuminating Innovation, Kings College, Strand/Aldwych, London, UK
2023 MAXLive Festival, Onassis ONX, New York, NY
2023 DEMO Festival, Onassis ONX, New York, NY2022 IDFA ONX + DocLab Mocap Stage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 XTENSIONS, Onassis ONX, New York, NY
2021 Ars Electronica Concrete House, Virtual, Linz, Austria
2021 Immediations, DesignSpace, Phoenix, AZ
2018 The Flow Room, New York University, Shanghai, China, and Brooklyn, NY
2017 Go! Emerging Artist Commission, Streb Lab for Action Mechanics, Brooklyn, NY
2017 MakerFaire, New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY
2017 CultureHub Season Opening, CultureHub, New York, NY, and Los Angeles, CA
2017 Expanded Cinema, Volume Two, Made in New York Media Center by IFP, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Refest 2.0, NYU ITP, New York, NY
2016 Look3 Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, VA
2016 Tribeca Storyscapes, Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY
2016 Big Screens 10th Anniversary, IAC Media Center, New York, NY
2016 Bodies in Motion, MAGNET, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Street-based Intervention, Cop21 Climate Summit, Paris, France
2015 New York University ITP Fall Show, NYU ITP, New York, NY
2014 Urban Outfitters Without Walls Launch, Urban Outfitters Sixth Avenue, New York, NY
2013 High Five, The Muse, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Mohandas on the Rocks, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011 TEDxBrooklyn, Brooklyn Bowl, New York, NY
2011 Nomadic Alchemy, SoHo Mixed Media Bar, Honolulu, HI
2010 Ahoya!, House of Yes, Brooklyn, NY
Residencies and Awards
2024 EY AiR, EY Metaverse Lab, New York, NY
2024 APossible, New York, NY
2023 GLoW3 Residency, Kings College London, London, UK
2023 Onassis ONX Membership, New York, NY
2022 MAXMachina 2022-23 Cohort Residency, New York, NY
2022 NEW INC Y9 Extended Realities Track Member, New Museum, New York, NY
2022 Next Web Seed Grant, Meta Open Arts/NEW INC, New Museum, New York, NY
2021 NEW INC Y8 Extended Realities Track Member, New Museum, New York, NY
2021 SloMoCo Microresidency, Conference on Movement and Computing, Tempe, AZ
2019 Human In Residence, NYU ITP, New York, NY
2017 Aspen Digital Art Award Shortlist, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
2017 Emerging Artist Commissioning Program, Streb Lab for Action Mechanics, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Visual Arts Initiative Award, NYU Arts Council, New York, NY
2017 Artist Residency, NYU ITP, New York, NY
2017 xStory Google Research Grant, NYU ITP, New York, NY
2016 Red Burns Scholarship, NYU ITP, New York, NY
2015 Tisch School of the Arts Scholarship, NYU, New York, NY
2015 Women In Technology Scholarship, MediaOcean, New York, NY
2005 Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship, Watson Foundation, New York, NY
Related Professional Experience
2019-present Adjunct Arts Professor, ITP, New York University, Brooklyn, NY
2018-9 Senior Experience Designer, Machine Intelligence, Adobe, New York, NY
2013-8 Founding Chief Digital Officer, Blue Chalk Media, Brooklyn, NY
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