Cari Ann Shim Sham
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Cari Ann Shim Sham is an American filmmaker, choreographer, media artist, and academic. She is a full arts professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her work focuses on choreography with film, virtual reality, inflatable architecture, and generative art[1], and includes projects body landscapes, dance prompts, Parksville Murders[2][3], Two Seconds After Laughter[4], and SAND.[5] In 2017, She received the Best VR Film award at the NYC Indie Film Festival.[6]
Shim Sham studied at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), earning a Bachelor of Arts in World Arts and Cultures (Dance) in 1997 and a Master of Fine Arts in Choreography in 2009.[4] During her graduate studies, she met David Rousseve and joined his company Roussève/REALITY as a resident video artist and filmmaker.[7]
Career
She joined New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts as a faculty member in dance and new media, later becoming Associate Professor and then full Arts Professor. She served as director of the NYU Dance & Technology Program from 2017 to 2020.[8]
Her artistic practice focuses on movement in relation[9] to emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, blockchain-based art[10], generative systems, interactive performance, and immersive media.[11] She is the creator of body landscapes, a generative art and animated film project, and dance prompts, an open-source AI choreography system.[12] She is also co-founder, with Joey Zaza, of the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art (mowna).[13]
As a filmmaker, she has directed experimental works combining choreography and cinematic techniques, including body landscapes[14], Parksville Murders (2017)[2], and SAND (2010).[5] Her work has been presented at United Nations General Assembly and Lincoln Center.[15]
In addition to directing, she has worked as a cinematographer, editor, and producer on documentary and dance films, including Two Seconds After Laughter[4] and One Day on Earth.[5] She has also contributed video design to live performance, including the reconstruction of Robert Rauschenberg’s Shiner for Trisha Brown’s Set & Reset/Reset.[16]
Her work has been exhibited and screened at The Wrong Biennial, the Texekspressionizm program at CAMUZ, and the Out-FRONT! Film Series in New York City.[12]
Her generative work wobimo: a magical sigil generator for what is needed most was exhibited in Art on Tezos: Berlin.[12] Other exhibitions include Techspressionism exhibitions in New York, the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Sans Souci Festival, Jacob’s Pillow, and the Museum of Boulder.[17]