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, Meta Open Arts, the Conference on Movement and Computing, Contemporary Art Society, CultureHub, Google xStory, Media Art Xploration (MAX), New Museum/NEW INC 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 held positions at Adobe Design as a senior designer for machine intelligence, and Blue Chalk Media as founding chief digital officer.
Lisa lives and works in Burlington, VT, and New York, NY.
Selected CV (full CV available on request)
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
Select Exhibitions and Performances
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, NY
2022 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
Lectures, Panels, and Workshops
2024 Creating Maquette, Dance and/as Technology, UQAM, Montreal, Canada
2024 Glow @ XR Women, Virtual, US
2024 Artist talk, Kings College, London, UK
2023 Artist talk, DEMO, New Museum Theater, New York, NY
2023 Creating Maquette, Total Museum (virtual), Seoul, South Korea
2023 Transcending Boundaries: Exploring the convergence of art, technology, and advertising in a physical-digital world, DDB (virtual), US
2022 The Art of Movement Mapping, MAXForum Series, ONX Studio, New York, NY
2022 Artist Talk, Digital Playgrounds, ONX Studio, New York, NY
2022 Presenting Oλος, Next Web Grant Presentation, New Museum, New York, NY
2021 Transduction: Movement and Computing Energetics, Society for Literature, Science & The Arts, West Lafayette, IN
2021 Transduction: Movement and Computing Energetics, SloMoCo, Tempe, AZ
2021 Me, You, and Our Computers, SloMoCo, Tempe, AZ
2019 Inclusive Design Panel, The 3% Conference, Washington D.C.
2019 Creative Careers Panel, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2019 Designing for Machine Intelligence, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Working With Kinectron, Live Web, NYU ITP, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Monitoring The Body & Senses for Art & Technological Practice, Adjacent Conference: Bodies and Borders, New York, NY
2018 The Volumetric Capture Ecosystem, New Museum, New York, NY
2018 Global Creative Residency for Seoul Institute of the Arts, CultureHub, New York, NY
2018 Working With Kinectron, Live Web, NYU ITP, New York, NY
2017 The Physical Body & Technology, Fordham University, New York, NY
2017 Working With Kinectron, Nothing: Designing Illusions, NYU ITP, New York, NY
2017 Working With Kinectron, Open Source Cinema, NYU ITP, New York, NY
2016 Working With Kinectron, Live Web, NYU ITP, New York, NY
2016 Reaching Your Audience, Magnum Foundation Human Rights Production Lab, City University of New York, New York, NY
2014 Using Digital Media in Education, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
2014 The Nonfiction Media Landscape, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
2014 The Business of Storytelling, MA Journalism, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2014 The Nonfiction Media Landscape, BA Journalism, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Residencies and Awards
2024 EY AiR, EY Metaverse Lab, 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 Fellowship, 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
Community Advisement, Curation and Mentoring
2024 Application reviewer, NEW INC XR Track, New York, NY
2021 Mentor and Committee Member, SloMoCo, Tempe, AZ
2019-20 Advisor, Girls Rise Up Summer Program, Stem From Dance, Brooklyn, NY
2018-20 Advisor/Curator, REFEST 2.0, CultureHub NYC, New York, NY
2018-9 Advisor/Mentor, Experiments in Storytelling, New York University, New York, NY
2014-8 Learn Aerial, an online hub for aerial artists and appreciators in New York City. Creator (LearnAerial.com), Brooklyn, NY
Academic Courses Taught
2023-present Experiments on the Embodied Web, NYU ITP, A graduate elective course encouraging students to explore embodied interaction on the web.
2020-1 The Body Everywhere and Here, NYU ITP, A graduate elective course encouraging students to explore embodied interaction on the web.
2020-1 Introduction to Computational Media: Code, NYU ITP, A graduate foundation course that focuses on the fundamentals of computer programming and includes a basic introduction to web technologies.
2019-20 Introduction to Computational Media: Media, NYU ITP, A graduate foundation course that focuses on applying fundamental programming concepts to generate and manipulate various media including imagery, sound and text and data.
