cari ann shim sham*
Arts Professor
cari ann shim sham* is here to move things. She is a techspressionist, having recently exhibited with Kingsborough Art Museum, Loop Art Critique, Li Ting Gallery, NFTBali, Superlative Gallery, Las Lagunas Art, and her artwork is in the permanent collection of the Mud Foundation. She practices morphic embodiment, is currently building an AI choreographer, creating a generative XR visual album with joey zaza, developing empathy generators via performative inflatable sculpture & archiving performance on the blockchain. Her work has shown at notable venues such as Cannes, United Nations General Assembly, Samsung Developers Conference, Future of Storytelling, Jacob's Pillow, REDCAT, & BAM. Making films and video art since the 90’s, four of her dance films are in the Routeledge Performance Archive and she is the first video artist to redesign Rauschenberg's 'Shiner' for "Set & Reset, Reset" by the Trisha Brown company. She was recently featured in Dance Magazine for her long term collaboration with David Roussève as a filmmaker and video artist for Roussève | Reality and her newest film body landscapes is a finalist for the New York Animation Film Awards. She is co-founder and curator for the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art, an online digital art museum that pays its artists recently voted one of the ten best galleries to see digital art at in NYC by Digital Arts Blog, and has curated for Objkt.one the largest art market on the Tezos blockchain. cari ann is in service as a Full Arts Professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and mentor to many.
She is a free diver, wild mushroom hunter and nature worshiper in the process of receiving certification in Family Systemic Constellation Therapy.
cari ann does not partake in the harmful mainstream platforms of social media and can be found instead on the blockchain. https://linktr.ee/cariannshimsham
Selected Awards
2018 Samsung Staff Pick Parksville Murders Samsung VR Gallery
2017 Best VR Parksville Murders NYC Indie Film Festival
2014 Staff Pick Award My First Big Break Vimeo
Selected Grants
2019 Dean's Grant Shimmer NYU
2019 Live Arts Boston See/Be Seen The Boston Foundation
2018 Immersive Opera Project Parksville Murders Opera America
2017 Dean's Grant Shimmer NYU
2017 New England Dance Fund DLNOWW NEFA, Boston, MA
2017 Live Arts Boston Grant DLNOWW Boston Foundation, MA
2016 Next Steps Boston Dance DLNOWW Boston, MA
2016 Artist Development Grant Shimmer NYU
2016 Opera America Grant Parksville Murders Opera America
Artist in Residence
2021 Synapse Dance Company Santa Monica College LA, CA
2019-20 Barnard Motion Lab Barnard, Columbia New York, NY
Distribution
2019 Routeledge Perf Archive SAND, Are You For Real World Wide Non Exclusive
2019 Routeledge Perf Archive Chicken Boy, Powder World Wide Non Exclusive
2018 Jaunt VR Parksville Murders Jaunt VR World Wide
2018 Inception VR Parksville Murders Inception VR World Wide
2017-18 Samsung VR Gallery Parksville Murders Samsung World Wide
2012-18 Short Film Intl. SAND itunes
2012-18 itunes & Amazon One Day on Earth itunes & Amazon World Wide