cari ann shim sham*

Arts Professor

headshot of Cari Ann Shim Sham

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