“Hello Chelsea!” / Techspressionism 2025 Salon Panel

Hybrid In Person and Zoom

Location: Hudson Guild Gallery, 441 W. 26th Street, New York, NY 10001 or via zoom at link below

Dates: April 30 – June 25, 2025

Viewing Hours:  Tuesdays-Fridays, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Saturdays, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM. Closed May 22 – May 26

Information: 212-760-9837

Subway: C, E, to 23rd Street in Manhattan

Artist Panel:  HYBRID EVENT – Thursday, June 5, 12–1:30 PM at Hudson Guild Gallery and on Zoom – Register to attend on Zoom here.

PANELISTS
Roz Dimon
Carla Gannis
Colin Goldberg
Seungjin Lee
cari ann shim sham
Ann Shapiro
Nina Sobell

Register to attend via zoom

body landscapes screening at LA Underground Film Forum 2025

Screening Date & Location: Friday, April 18th, 2025, 9:45 AM – 5:30 PM

The Hudson Theatre, 6539 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90038

tickets

 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/la-underground-film-forum-tickets-1301367979659

Chicken Boy will be screened at l'Échangeur -at the Cultural Center of Laon (France) on Friday, March 28 as part of KiDance Festival

dance prompts: an open source community developed AI choreographer biased for inclusive and accessible movement workshop at the Romancing the Machine Symposium Sunday March 2, from 3-4pm at the NYU, Jay Street Metrotech in the Black Box Theater, room 220.

body landscapes will screen at the 2025 Third Coast Dance Film Festival in Reno, NV

Feb. 20 at 6 pm at the Nevada Museum of Art // 160 W Liberty St

Tickets: $15 General; $5 Students.  Tickets can be purchased online at https://www.nevadaart.org/event/third-coast-dance-film-festival-24/

(1 hour of films)

David Roussève Retrospective & Private Reception, DCW

Sunday, February 2, 2025 7:00 PM PST
Barnsdall Gallery Theater

As part of its 25th Anniversary as a Los Angeles institution, DCW will honor legendary L.A. based choreographer/writer/director/filmmaker David Roussève on Sunday, February 2, 2025 with a retrospective screening of David’s award-winning dance films, followed by an invite only cocktail reception in his honor.

Two Seconds After Laughter

The third film by director/writer/choreographer David Roussève, "Two Seconds After Laughter" is an original intersection of dance-for-camera, docu-drama, and dream-like fantasy that creates a border-jumping dialogue on a universal irony: The heart longs most for the one place to which it can never fully return… home. With a narrative inspired by choreographer Sri Susilowati's experience of leaving Indonesia to become a dancer in America, "Two Seconds…" weaves stunning cinematography shot in Java and edited by Cari Ann Shim Sham*, traditional Indonesian dance, postmodern Sundanese music, and an emotionally-potent narrative.

"Two Seconds" screened at 45 film festivals in 11 countries and received 10 awards including four for “Best Film”.

Two Seconds After Laughter

Filmed in Java in residency at Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta

Directed, written, co-choreographed by David Roussève

An informal showing of hovering, cari ann’s new generative dance work about holding and being held, being between here and there, with no where to land.

Dec 11th at 9am at NYU Tisch Dance 111 2nd ave, 5th floor, Jack Crystal Theater

fungitari 🍄 🕹️, #InfiniteWall, GOODDADSTUDIOS, Austin, TX, Sept.
19, 2024

Dance Behind the Screen podcast Airdate May 15th

Interview with Knowbox Dance & cari ann shim sham*

You can find more information here;  iTunes  Spotify  Libsyn  Youtube 

https://www.knowboxdance.com/post/episode-136

https://youtu.be/Y3BY3xDlrYM

the shimmer small anemones are performing March 16th from 3-5pm at the Every Woman Biennial the worlds largest female and non binary art festival happening March 2 - 24th at La Mama Galleria 47 Great Jones Street NYC

performances are on march 16, 3-5pm and march 23 & 24 TBD

https://www.everywomanbiennial.com/

February 23, 2024 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Movement Lab, Milstein LL020

The Movement Lab presents: the Artificial environments / environmental Intelligence Festival

The Ae/eI Festival features work-in-progress installations and performances in the Movement Lab every day during the week of February 21-28, all of which are free and open to the public. It is guided by the question, what happens when we close the loop on the constructed binary of nature and technology?

Artificial environments / environmental Intelligence Festival Night 3:  

‘dance prompts’ <dance jam> | a generative prompt party to train an AI choreographer 

Created by cari ann shim sham, Demetris Charalambous, and Karsen

Friday, February 23rd   |   5:00pm

Phase one of a participatory artificial intelligence generative dance project to develop an AI choreographer biased towards inclusive and accessible movement. 'dance prompts' <dance jam> | generative prompt party will test images, text, games and spatial design on bodies in motion. The attendees will engage in conversation post jam about which prompts worked best for their bodies. Selected prompts will be used to train a neural network to choreograph for Phase two of the project.

 rsvp https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeId_CRk0iWTOlFkPbEEh3pMH1EYXQvJ3J4tQ09UmoKg89dpg/viewform

Jam begins at 5:00 PM

Capacity in the lab is capped at 40 audience members. Attendees who have RSVP'd before the event will have priority, and admission will be determined on a first come first serve basis on arrival. If you RSVP before the event but you arrive late, we reserve the right to give your spot to someone on the waitlist. 

Attendees who have not RSVP'd will be put on a standby waitlist if they arrive in-person before the event.

cari ann shim sham* is a wild artist, free diver, & edible mushroom hunter. Her practice explores bodily circular movement's relationship to magic, self portraiture as critique, human interactions with technology, the power of asking questions & the possibilities of improvisation & experimentation to liberate dance. She often works in the nude. Recently exhibited by Loop Art Critique, Li Tang Gallery, NFTBali, Superlative Gallery, and Las Lagunas Art she is currently investigating AI choreography, generative dance, blockchain GIF archival of performance, & ways of using blockchain in lieu of social media. 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. Four of her dance films are distributed by Routeledge and she is the first video artist to redesign Rauschenberg's 'Shiner' for "Set & Reset, Reset" by the Trisha Brown company. She is co-founder and curator for the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art and is a full Arts Professor of Dance & Technology at NYU, TISCH Dance Department. www.cariannshimsham.com

Demetris Charalambous is an experimental NYC-based maker born and raised in Cyprus. Demetris's mediums span performance, choreography, and visual art. Demetris' work and collaborations have been presented in spaces and platforms such as Performance Space New York, Center for Performance Research, Judson Memorial Church, the Living Gallery, NOWNESS.com, and Berlin Commercial. Demetris is an NYU Tisch School of the Arts BFA Honors scholar and has trained in workshops across Europe such as b12 Berlin Workshop Festival, Palucca Hochschule für tanz in Dresden, Academie de Danse Princesse Grace in Monaco, DeDutchDon’tDanceDivision in the Hague, English National Ballet and Rambert School in London. 

Karsen is an artist of many mediums. After graduating from NYU Tisch, they have kept creating works in collaboration with cari ann shim sham* and Demetris Charalambous, notably Gorgeous Creatures (2022), and currently the development of an AI choreographer. These days Karsen is learning to sew, in order to bring to life the self-customizations floating around in their head. This is one part of the effort to build the world in their mind outside of it. “I want to live in my fantasy realm. Where bodies aren’t limited to human design, and you can customize your avatar with mecha, or have gills. Where magic is seen. And music is always playing. To your left is a cyberpunk alley, beyond that a forest of destruction, before you a spiral floor of trials so vast you lived ten lives already.  And above you there’s a floating lake, and it’s gleaming, with steam spilling over the edges in a red starry sky and I’m running running running leaping glitching closer so I can dive in and find out where it leads. Or maybe I’ll wait for a bit, and let its water cleanse me as I shrink smaller and smaller until I am the lake itself. Who knows what I’ll do in that moment?” -Karsen, about the world they choose to live in.  They’ll make a map next.

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Photography

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Photography

with with Santiago Lyon, cari ann shim sham*, and Rashed Haq

November 4, 2023

Stay informed, join the debate, and make up your own mind on whether AI is a giant leap forward or a foreboding step backwards for photographers.

window #8 curated for Abstract exhibit at Las Laguna Art Gallery Sept 7th 2023

Curator and moderator for fx(hash) ART TOURS for the ANTIDOTE Festival