Artist statement

My art serves as a window to the soul, a mirror for reflection, a refuge for meditation, a generator for embodiment, and a sacred space for healing. My body acts as a conduit, a medium through which magic and messages flow. My practice is generative, embodied, and empathetic soul work.

There is power in the question, liberation in embracing the experiment, healing in the soul, and magic in the movement.

I am here to move things.

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, she is a recipient of two Telly Awards with four of her dance films in the Routeledge Performance Archive and 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. Her live projection mapping and interactive video art work for Fractal Memories by Time Lapse Dance ensemble, and joey zaza’s magic stack media, is at the heart of the feature documentary film about Loïe Fuller, Obsessed with Light. She is co-founder and curator for the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art, an online digital art museum that pays its artists, 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 harmful platforms and can be found instead on bluesky, warpcast, Rodeo, & the blockchain > linktree <

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Thanks for popping by, enjoy your life and drop me a line at cariannshimsham AT gmail yada yada yada
❤ shimmy

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