cari ann shim sham*
education
2009 MFA,Choreography, University of California, Los Angeles
1997 BA, Dance, University of California, Los Angeles
nfts
exhibition
2025 “body waves”, Texekspressionizm, Contemporary Art Museum of
Uzbekistan, CAMUZ, Sept 3, 2025
"body waves" “Hello Chealsea!” //Techspressionism 2025, Hudson Guild Gallery, NYC,
April 30 - June 25, 2025
"black and white: a man ray redux" v1 “Hello Chealsea!” //Techspressionism 2025,
Hudson Guild Gallery, NYC, April 30 - June 25, 2025
2024 fungitari 🍄 🕹️, #InfiniteWall, GOODDADSTUDIOS, Austin, TX, Sept.19, 2024
"black and white: a man ray redux" v1, “Hello Brooklyn!”//Techspressionism 2024
Kingsborough Art Museum, NY, Aug 7 - September 25, 2024
body landscapes film, “Hello Brooklyn!”//Techspressionism 2024, Kingsborough Art
Museum, NY, Aug 7 - September 25 2024
shimmer small anemone, “Hello Brooklyn!”//Techspressionism 2024, Kingsborough Art
Museum, Aug 7 - September 25 2024
shimmer small anemones, Songs of the Sea, Summer on the Hudson, Aug 24 & 31, 2024
shimmer small anemones, Every Woman Biennial La MaMa Galleria, NYC
dance prompts, <dance jam>, Ae/eI Festival Columbia, Movement Lab
body landscapes, Slipping Past, Loop Art Critique, Online
2023 window #1, Materiality Unleashed, Li Ting Gallery, Online
window #8, Las Lagunas Art Gallery, Abstract curation
bleu, SANS SOUCI 20th Anniversary installation, Museum of Boulder,CO June 1 -
Sept 4, 2023
bleu, San Souci Festival @ Fimudanza installation, Festival Internacional de
Mujeres y Danza celebrating women directors in dance film, Centro Cultural
Clavijero, Morelia, Michoacán, México, August 5-28, 2023
shimmer small anemones, Songs of the Sea, Summer on the Hudson NYC, August 2023
circling, Superlative Gallery, NFTBali, Bali, Indo 5.22-28.23
2022 pandemic statements, Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology, Conn
shimmer small anemones, Songs of the Sea, Summer on the Hudson
pandemic statements, NYC Indie Film Festival, 6.17.22
shimmer small anemone, NYC Resistor, 6.10.22
shimmer small anemones,Northeastern Commencement, MA, May 2022
ai dev
2024 dance prompts open source community developed AI Choreographer
2021 AI Curator, “This Show is Curated by a Machine”, mowna.org
founder
2021 Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art mowna.org
2002 Shim Sham Move Co., Dance Department, Culver City Academy of
Visual & Performing Arts
1996 Bitch Co., Female performance art/dance/opera company (‘96-2007)
artist + tech residencies
2021 Guest Artist, Synapse Dance, Santa Monica College
2020 MUSE, Artist Residency, Dancespace, shimmer, canceled/covid
2019 Artist Residency, Barnard Columbia, Movement Lab
2017 Salamanca Moves Festival, Mover in Residence
2018 REDCAT Technical Residency, Strayhorn Project, Los Angeles, CA
Technical Residency, NC State,Strayhorn Project, Raleigh, NC
Artist Residency MAGMA, DLNOWW, Video Artist, Gloucester, MA
Jacob's Pillow,Strayhorn Project, Video Artist, Berkshires, MA
2017 NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Strayhorn, Video Artist, NY, NY
Imagine Festival, DLNOWW, Video Artist, Western MA
MIT Media Makers Lab, DLNOWW, Video Artist, Boston, MA
UCLA, Strayhorn Project, Video Artist, LA, CA
Endicott College Cnt for the Arts, DLNOWW, Endicott, MA
Deborah Mason’s Perf Arts Center, DLNOWW, Somerville, MA
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, DLNOWW, Video Artist, NY, NY
2016 Endicott College Cnt for the Arts, DLNOWW, Endicott, MA
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, DLNOWW, Video Artist, NY, NY
2015 Boston Dance Complex, DLNOWW, Video Artist, Boston, MA
2013 REDCAT Technical Residency, Stardust, Los Angeles, CA
Montclair Technical Residency, Stardust, Montclair, New Jersey
Dance Place, Technical Residency, Ruth, Washington, DC
2012 Krannert Cntr Tech Residency, Stardust, Champaigne-Urbana,
REDCAT Technical Residency, Ruth, Los Angeles, CA
distribution
2019 Routeledge Performance Archive, World Wide Non Exclusive,
SAND, Chicken Boy, Are You For Real?, Powder
2018 Short Film Intl., itunes, SAND, World Wide, Non Exclusive
Jaunt VR, World Wide, Parksville Murders
Inception VR, World Wide, Parksville Murders
2017 Samsung VR Gallery, World Wide, Parksville Murders
2012 Short Film Intl., itunes, World Wide Exclusive, Sand
itunes & Amazon, World Wide, One Day on Earth
awards + honors
2024 body landscapes, Mud Foundation permanent collection
2023 Bleu, 20th Anniversary Showcase, Sans Souci Festival
objkt.one, Curator, Wild & Newfangled
2018 Her Magnum Opus, Best Dance Film, ReelHeART Intl Film Festival
Samsung Staff Pick, Parksville Murders, Samsung VR Gallery
2017 Best VR, Parksville Murders, NYC Indie Film Festival
2014 Best Intl Doc Indonesia, Rasi Dari Tari, World Film Awards Fest
Staff Pick Award, My First Big Break, Vimeo
2013 Best Film, Intl. Doc, Two Seconds After Laughter
InShadow Vanguard Award, Two Seconds After Laughter
SF Shorts, Award of Excellence, Two Seconds After Laughter
Best Screenplay, Two Seconds After Laughter, Women’s Ind. FF
Best Experimental Film, Two Seconds After Laughter, Indie Grits
Honorable Mention, Two Seconds After Laughter, Int’l Fest Env
2012 Best Experimental Film, Two Seconds After Laughter, New Orleans FF
Audience Award, Two Seconds After Laughter, Soug Film Festival
Jury Award, Two Seconds After Laughter, Soug Film Festival
World’s Largest Premier,One Day on Earth,Record Breakers
Vimeo Social Change Award,One Day on Earth, Vimeo Awards
Best Film, Two Seconds After Laughter, Delta Int’l Film Festival
Audience Award, Best Short, Two Seconds After Laughter, SFDFF
2011 Best Short Documentary, SAND, Oxford Film Festival
2010 Best Short Documentary, SAND, St. Louis Intl. Film Fest
Best Director, Mini Docs, SAND, First Glance Film Festival
Special Mention, SAND, Dance Camera West
2009 Telly Award, Cinematography, My 1st Big Break, Telly Awards
Telly Award, Music Video, My 1st Big Break, Telly Awards
Dance Video Award, $800, Delicious Tree, Jumping Frames
2008 Silver Award, Prod/Post Prod, Are you for real?, Create Awards
Jury Shorts Award & Tour, Are you for real?, Cinedans
Tour Selection, Are you for real?, Sans Soucci
grants
2024 NYU Collaborative Impact Grant, dance prompts, $2500
2024 NYU Dean’s Grant, dance prompts AI Choreographer, $2000
2023 NYU Dean’s Grant, dance prompts AI Choreographer, $2000
2022 NYU Dean’s Conference Travel Grant, pandemic statements, $500
2021 NYU Dean's Grant, shimmer, $1200
2020 NYU Dean's Grant, shimmer, $3000
2016 NYU Artist Development Grant, shimmer, $3500
2016 NYU Dean's Grant, Parksville/Whale $3000
2014 CHIME Choreographer Mentorship Exchange Mentor to Ally Voye
2007 Surdna Arts Teachers Fellowship, Dragonfly, $5,000
selected press
Cool Course: Video Art A Tisch dance class teaches the tech skills needed to create immersive multimedia art for any moving body
Techspressionism interview by Colin Goldberg
Artist Interview: cari ann shim sham* by Digital Art Blog, Aug 2, 2024
fx(press) interview with cari ann shim sham* on fx(hash) 2.0 body landscapes drop
Wall Street Journal feature on VR Horror Opera, Parksville Murders dir by cari ann shim sham*
additional press
https://www.cariannshimsham.com/press
artist talks + panels
2025 AI Panelist, TransCultural Exchange Conference, March 7-9,
Cambridge, MA
2024 GEN ART The Generative Art Voicemail Podcast 4, Is Generative Art
GEN ART The Generative Art Voicemail Podcast 3, What’s your
biggest generative art challenge?
Knowbox Dance Behind the Screen Podcast Blockchain, AI, interview
Techspressionist Salon 80 - Money cari ann & joey zaza, mowna.org
2023 AI & the future of Photography, Santa Fe Workshops, Online
Objkt.one Wild & Newfangled Curators & Artists, Online
Spotlight on women and non-binary artists on fxhash panel
Art As Digital Currency, Getting Closer to Dance Symposium, Joyce
2022 Demystifying NFTs Art as Digital Currency, Topanga Film Festival
2021 This Show is Curated by a Machine 🤖AI Talk & Opening Party 🎉
UC Riverside, Dance Film Workshop, Online
UCLA World Arts & Cultures | Dance Department, panelist
Northeastern, Understanding Design, panelist
Trinity, Screen Dance Panel
2019 Department of Tangents Podcast, Wild Artist cari ann shim sham*
Post-Show Talk: David Roussève/REALITY | Jacob's Pillow
2017 RED CURTAIN ADDICT, VR Horror Parksville Murders
2014 Post-Show Talk David Roussève /REALITY │ Jacob's Pillow
Dancing With Devices, University of Washington
Technology in Performance, The Carpenter Center, Cal State LB
Cinematic Imagination, Montclair University, Peak Performances
2012 DCW Workshop for HeART Project, Presented by Dance Camera West
2011 10th Anniversary Dance Media Festival & Conference, panelist
2010 The Idea, Creative Thinking for Video Production, WAC|Dance, UCLA
2009 The Art of the Edit: Editorial Strategies, WAC|Dance, UCLA
2008 A History of Dance Film, Arts & Architecture Department, UCLA
2008 Post Production As Choreography, Presented by Dance Camera West
inflatables
2021 shimmer small anemones
2016 shimmer the singing sea anemone
video art
2023 Obsessed with Light, Feature Film, Interactive Video Artist
2022 gorgeous creatures, generative dance, Video Artist, NYU
moving horizons, Video Artist, objkt.com
2020 Halfway to Dawn, Roussève|Reality, Video Artist, intl tour
2019 warning sirens, experimental score, Video Artist, NYU
2018 Inflatable Trio, Lionel Popkin, Video Artist, national tour
Enough?, David Rousseve, Video Artist, Commissioned by RAWDance
2017 Samsung, A Night in 360, Video Artist, Parksville Murders XRDome
Trophy, Kevin Williamson, live 3 channel Video Artist, intl tour
2016 TRISHA BROWN SET & RESET/RESET shiner, set/video/sound, SADC, NYU
RUTH Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Lionel Popkin, Video Artist, tour
2015 Peace Transcends, Viver Brasil, Video Artist, national tour
2014 Stardust, Roussève|Reality, Video Artist, national tour
2010 There is an Elephant in this Dance, Lionel Popkin, Video Artist
2009 Projecting Berd, LA Electric 8, Video Artist, Fowler Museum
Reclaiming the Sacred, Krenly Guzman, Video Artist
Asphalt Sea, The Red Mermaid, installation, Video Artist
An Attic, An Exit, Rachael Lincoln & Leslie Seiters, Video Artist
2007 Bunga Mangat…, Chih_Pei Gan, 5 Arts Center Malaysia, Video Artist
immersive XR, VR
2019 See | Be Seen, Co-creator, Lighting Designer,
Dance Like No One is Whale Watching, Interactive Video Designer
2017 Parksville Murders, VR Opera Horror, Director, Producer
generative art
2023 body landscapes, fx(hash), Dec 23, ethereum blockchain, 62
window, fx(hash), July 13, tezos blockchain, 21
WISH*, fx(hash), March 10, tezos blockchain, 13
slow draw (rare version), Jan 13, tezos blockchain, 13
2022 auras (scotomas from an auric migraine), July 31, tezos blockchain, 13
generative AI
2024 fungitari 🍄 🕹️,July 25, tezos blockchain, 33 edition
2023 ~tilde~, Nov 19, tezos blockchain, 62 edition
dance prompts, Oct 14, tezos blockchain, 1000 edition
director for film
2024 body landscapes, short animated dance film
2022 pandemic statements, exp dance zoom film, cari ann shim sham*
2019 Parksville Murders, live staging at the Flea, NYC
2018 Last Leaf, dance film, Director
2017 Parksville Murders, VR Opera Horror short film, Director
2012 chicken boy, dance film, Director
2010 SAND, exp short documentary, Director
2009 powder, installation/dance film, Director
2008 are you for real?, music video, Director
2007 in the garden, dance film, Director
delicious tree, dance film, Director
2005 exaggerated femme, dance film, Director
2004 fly, dance film, Director
2003 riverflow, dance film, Director
falling, dance film, Director
cinematography
2021 bronx magic, short dance film, Dir Marta Renzi, Cinematographer
2016 Her Magmum Opus, feature film, Dir Marta Renzi, Cinematographer
2015 Besties, short dance film, Dir Marta Renzi, Cinematographer
2014 Steep, short exp film, Dir Lionel Popkin, Cinematographer
2012 chicken boy, dance film, Cinematographer
2011 Two Seconds After Laughter, Dir David Roussève, D. Cinematography
editor
2015 The Fez, feature documentary
2014 Body without a Brain, short dance film
Rasa Dari Tari, short dance film
2012 Jazz Tap Anthology, feature five disc documentary
One Day on Earth, feature documentary
Dance Elephant Dance, short dance film
2010 Gotta Move Women in Tap, feature documentary
2011 May & June, short dance film
2009 January, short dance film
choreography for film
2018 Gold in the River, music video, Choreographer
2007 Strangers, short film, Choreographer
choreography for theater
2017 All will be Forgiven Eventually, Choreo, Art NY/New Georges, NYC
2016 The Field, Choreographer, Labyrinth Theater, NYC, NY
2004 Dracula, Choreographer, Sony Theater, Culver City, CA
2003 Ophelia Project, Choreographer, Robert Frost, Culver City, CA
2002 Bernarda Alba, Choreographer, Sony Theater, Culver City, CA
1999 BroKAmerikka, Choreographer, Henry Huang Theater, LA, CA
1998 FAKE!, Choreographer, Highways Theater, LA, CA
choreography for opera
1999 Don Giovanni, Choreographer, Royce Hall, UCLA
1999 Hansel & Gretel, Choreographer, LA Guild Opera
1998 Susannah, Choreographer, UCLA
1997 Les Mamelles de Tirisias, Choreographer, UCLA
1996 Gianni Schicchi, Choreographer, UCLA
choreography for musical theater
2006 Chess, Choreographer, Robert Frost, Culver City, CA
2005 Company, Choreographer, Sony Theater, Culver City, CA
2005 Once on This Island, Choreographer, Sony Theater, Culver City, CA
2004 Footloose, Choreographer, Robert Frost, Culver City, CA
2002 Batboy, Choreographer, Sony Theater, Culver City, CA
2002 The Who’s Tommy, Choreographer, Robert Frost, Culver City, CA
2001 Oliver, Choreographer, Robert Frost, Culver City, CA
2001 Hist of American Film, Choreographer, Chance Theater, Anaheim, CA
1999 Ma Gba Gbe, Choreographer, UCLA WAC | Dance, LA, CA
1998 Once on This Island, Choreographer, UCLA,Tiny Band
choreography for dance
2022 gorgeous creatures, Choreographer Jack Crystal Theater, NY, NY
2019 warning sirens, Choreographer, Jack Crystal Theater, NY, NY
Gold In The River, Choreographer, music video, NY, NY
2016 Turbulence, Choreographer/Performer, Triskelion Arts, NY, NY
2008 My First Big Break, Choreographer, Eyestorm Productions
2007 I’m So Lucky, Choreographer, Culver City AVPA
2006 Monitor Madness, Choreographer, Culver City AVPA
2005 by the light of the tube, Choreographer, Culver City AVPA
SANDANZ, Choreographer, WAC, UCLA
Preshow (Dance Film) Choreographer ALIS Intl Hotel Conference
Preshow Dance Film, Choreographer, ALIS Intl Hotel Conference, LA
2004 Mr. Blue Sky, Choreographer, ALIS Intl Hotel Conference, LA
2002 Falling, Bitch Co., The Hatch Gallery, LA
2001 Chandelier Girls, Bitch Co., Dem Convention, Bergamot Station
2000 Sloppy White Face, Bitch Co., Cirque du Soleil, LA
1999 Bubble Wrap & Red Dress, Bitch Co., Cirque du Soleil, Bellagio
performance
2024 small anemones, Songs of the Sea, Summer on the Hudson, NY, NY
dance prompts <dance jam>, Barnard, Columbia, Movement Lab, NYC
small anemones, Every Woman Biennial, La MaMa Galleria, NYC, NY
2023 small anemones, Songs of the Sea, Summer on the Hudson, NY, NY
2022 small anemones, Songs of the Sea, Summer on the Hudson, NY, NY
sparky small anemone, NYC Resistor, Brooklyn, NY
2019 See | Be Seen, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2018 Dance Like No One Is Whalewatching, MAGMA, Gloucester, MA
Dance Like No One Is Whalewatching, Imagine Fest, Earth Dance, MA
Nick Cave The Let Go, The Armory, NY, NY
2016 Turbulence, Triskelion Arts, BK, NY
2015 Trophy, Kevin Williamson, REDCAT, LA, CA
Katerina Gleicher, CALArts, LA, CA
2013 Desy Safand-Gerard, Art Share LA, LA, CA
Anna B. Scott, Highways, LA, CA
2010 Nick Cave, Sound Suits, KCRW Soundsuit Invasion, LA, CA
Nick Cave Sound Suits, The Fowler Museum, LA, CA
Nick Cave Sound Suits, Art Walk, LA, CA
2007 “O!”, Suarez Dance, Redcat Theater, LA, CA
2003 Victoria Marks, Trolly Dances Project, SD, CA
2002 Sublime Concrete, Interactive CD-Rom, Dmitry Kmelnitsky, LA, CA
2001 Bastard Company, Henry Huang Theater, LA, CA
2000 Victoria Marks, Getty Museum Opening, LA, CA
Norton Wisdom, Henry Huang Theater, LA, CA
1999 Ichuro Irie, Track 16/Bergamot Station, LA, CA
David Rousseve/REALITY, LoveSongs, Royce Hall, UCLA, LA, CA
1998 Bastard Company, Fake, Highways Space, LA, CA
Carolina Mendizabal, Hammer Museum, LA, CA
1997 Carolina Mendizabal, West African Marketplace, LA, CA
festivals
2015 Festival Director, Topanga Film Festival, Technology at Play
2014 Programming Director, Producer, Topanga Film Festival, X
2009 Director, Producer, The Topanga World Music & Dance Festival
2008 Producer, World Festival of Sacred Music
critic + judge
2021 Guest Critic, Santa Monica College Dance Films
2020 Guest Critic, North Eastern Architecture Showing
2018 Judge, NYU 48hr Film Festival
2017 Judge, Boundless in Brooklyn 48 hr Dance Film Contest
Judge, Dancify That!
Judge, NYU 48hr Film Festival
curator
2024 Oct 3 - Jan 26, 2025, mowna x TS, Wild and Newfangled
Techspressionism
Feb 1 - April 30th, 2024 EXIT PLAN #MeetMeOnTheBlockchain
2023 HERE & NOW ANTIDOTE x objkt.one x mowna Wild & Newfangled
objkt.one x mowna Wild & Newfangled drop
May 01 - Sep 22 2023 mowna Biennial
May 01 2023 mowna Biennial drop on objkt
fx(fam) #003 - Spotlight on women and non-binary artists
Mar 08 objkt International Women's Day Twitter space
Mar 07 objkt curation highlights mowna OUTRAGEOUS! Exhibition
Feb 01 - Apr 30 mowna OUTRAGEOUS! Exhibition
Sept 22 through Jan 31, 2023 mowna Tezos Exhibition
2022 Mad Mad World, Dance Film Short Showcase, Topanga Film Festival
May 01 - Sep 21 Wild Ideas and Radical Actions
Jun 06 - Jun 13 Wild Ideas and Radical Actions NFT auctions
Feb 01 - Apr 30 mowna NFT Show
2021 Sep 23 - Jan 31, 2022 This Show is Curated by a Machine 🤖
Dec 3 Artist Talk: Language in Crypto Art, Pierre Gervois
Nov 19 Founders Chat
The Golden Bra, Dance Film Screening, Ciné-Corps, Cinema La Clef
Sep 17 Artist Talk: Creating New Worlds, Paola Estrella
Jul 16 Artist Talk: City of Lights with Ayesha M. Ali
Jul 2 Artist Talk: NFTs with Linda Dounia Rebeiz
Jun 25 Boudoir Bellows // Pandemic Statements
Apr 30 - Sep 22 mowna Biennial
Mar 27 MUD WATER // Freedom Music Video
Mar 03 Mar 06 UCR is Dancing 2021
Jan 08 Apr 29 Opening Show
curator for dance film
2022 Dance Film Showcase, The Topanga Film Festival
2019 Ciné Corps, Dance Film Hackathon Facilitator/Mentor, Rheims, FR
2018 Ciné Corps, American Short Dance Film Program, Paris, FR
Ciné Corps, Hackathon Facilitator, Paris, FR
NYU Women In Dance Conference, Short Dance Film Curator, NY, NY
2017 Dance Film Showcase, The Topanga Film Festival
2016 Salamanca Moves Festival, MOV-ies Curator, Shorts & Features
Dance Film Showcase, The Topanga Film Festival
Dance Films Association, Moderator for Dance on Camera Festival
2015 Dance Film Showcase, The Topanga Film Festival
DFA, End of Year Screening, Dance Film Lab, NYC
2014 Dance Film Showcase, The Topanga Film Festival
2013 Dances Made to Order, En Route Dance Film Festival
2012 Dance Film Showcase, The Topanga Film Festival
Dances Made to Order, En Route Dance Film Festival
Dances Made to Order, Echo Park Filmmobile
Dance Camera West, Screening Committee
2011 Dance Film Showcase, The Topanga Film Festival
Dance Camera West, Screening Committee
2010 Dance Film Showcase, The Topanga Film Festival
Dance Camera West, Screening Committee
professor
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York
Arts Professor, Dance Department 2022-2024
Associate Professor, Dance Department 2016-2021
Adjunct, Dance Department, 2015-2016
UCLA, World Arts & Cultures | Dance Department, Los Angeles
Adjunct, 2011-2014
courses taught
NYU
2025 Filming the Moving Body, Repertory - Morphic Embodiment,
Composition for Interactions with Technology, Creative Research
Video Art, Abstract Screens,
Multi-Projector Immersive & Interactive Design for Dance
2024 Composition for Interactions with Technology, Creative Research
Video Art, Abstract Screens, Multi-Projector Immersive & Interactive Design for
Dance
2023 sabbatical
2022 Composition for Interactions with Technology, Creative Research
Video Art, Abstract Screens, Multi-Projector Immersive & Interactive Design for
Dance
Filming the Moving Body, Ethics of Big Tech & Social Media, Big Ideas
2021 Composition for Interactions with Technology, Creative Research
Filming the Moving Body, Video Art, Abstract Screens, Multi-Projector Immersive &
Interactive Design for Dance, Ethics of Big Tech & Social Media, Big Ideas
2020 Composition for Interactions with Technology, Creative Research
Filming the Moving Body, Video Art, Abstract Screens, Multi-Projector Immersive &
Interactive Design for Dance,
2019 Video Art, Abstract Screens, Multi-Projector Immersive
Interactive Design for Dance, Filming the Moving Body, Digital
Performance Motion Capture for Dance Avatars, Digital Portfolio
2018 Filming the Moving Body, Dance for Camera, Dance & New Media,
2017 Dance and New Media, Filming the Moving Body, Dance for Camera,
Digital Portfolio, Digital Performance
2016 Filming the Moving Body, Dance for Camera, Digital Portfolio,
Dance and New Media
2015 Filming the Moving Body, Digital Portfolio
UCLA
2015 Dance for Camera
2014 Dance for Camera
2013 Dance for Camera
2011 Dance for Camera
2009 Dance for Camera, Beginning Tap Dance, Advanced Projects in Video
(Dance for Camera, Video Installation & Multi-Media)
2008 Beginning Tap Dance
Guest Teacher
2014 St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA. Dance for Camera
articles + publications
2023 body landscapes
dance prompts
slow draw (rare version)
2022 Dance as generative art
2014 Response, Invito Spectatore, Greene Exhibitions,
Rebecca Pappas & Brandon Som
2013 Dance Chronicle Review: “Wild Card in a Wild Frontier”
2010 One Day on Earth Educational Toolkits.
Cutting Rhythms: A New Perspective on the Rhythmic…
workshops + master classes
2021 Filming the Moving Body, Santa Monica College Dance
Dance & Technology, Santa Monica College Dance
So you made a film, now what?, Santa Monica College
Filming the Moving Body, UC Riverside, Dance Dept.
2020 Interactive Video with Isadora, BarnardColumbia Motion Lab
2015 Dancing with Devices, Pieter Performance Space, 8-week
2013 Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer, Pathway to creating a film
Presented by Topanga Film Institute
Dance Film Workshop, ODC
2011 Dance for Camera Workshop, Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta
2010 One Day on Earth Educational Toolkits, Classroom 2.0, online
2007 Dance for Camera: Guerilla Style, Uni of Malaysia Dance Dept
Dance for Camera: Guerilla Style, ASWARA Uni Malaysia Dance Dept
conference + symposium
2025 TransCultural Exchange Conference, AI IN ART: NEW POSSIBILITIES
FOR WORK & PROCESS, Panelist, Boston, MA
Romancing the Machine, Workshop facilitator, NY, NY
2023 Leadership, Advocacy,& Tech in Dance & Movement-based Practices
2022 Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology at Connecticut College
17th Biennial Symposium, Arts & Technology, pandemic statements
2021 Dance Studies Association Conference, SAND
Intl Dance Conference & Festival(IDCF), pandemic statements
Indonesia Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta, Presenter
2018 Dance & Technology Conference, NYU Center for Ballet, Presenter
CHI, Montreal, Workshop, Conference, Presenter
NYU Women In Dance Conference, Presenter/Curator
2016 NYU Dance & New Media Conference, Director/Presenter
mentor + consultant
2017 NYU Center for Ballet, Fellowship Paul Vasterling, Consultant
NEFA, Grant Mentor
2015 Dance Films Association, Archival Project, Consultant
juxt a position, by Christie Zimmerman, Consultant
2014 CHIME (Mentor) Ally Voye (Mentee) Choreo Mentorship Exchange
Dance Heritage Coalition, Consultant
2013 ODC, Pilot 62 11 week Program, Mentor, presented by SFDFF & ODC
certification
2024 Family & Systemic Constellation, Luisa Mohr, in process
artist statement
my art acts as a window to the soul, a mirror for reflection, a warm refuge for meditation, a generator for embodiment, and a sacred space for healing. my body acts as a conduit, a medium for magic and message to travel through. my practice is generative, embodied, soul work. there is power in the question. there is liberation in the experiment. there is love in the soul. there is magic in the movement. i am here to move things.
bio
cari ann shim sham* is here to move things. She is a web3 artist who’s recently joined the techspressionists and works with AI as oracle. She’s 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 developing an AI choreographer, creating a generative XR visual album with joey zaza, making generative dances, generative art & archiving performance on the blockchain. Her work has shown at notable venues such as Cannes, United Nations General Assembly, Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Samsung Developers Conference, Future of Storytelling, Jacob's Pillow, REDCAT, & BAM among others.
Making films, music videos, 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, alongside joey zaza’s magic stack media, is at the heart of the new feature documentary film about Loïe Fuller, Obsessed with Light(2023). As a web3 artist her work is found on the Tezos and Ethereum blockchains. Currently in exhibition is her cyber feminist work “black and white- a man ray redux v1” alongside her generative art project and film body landscapes. Her new ai collection ~ body waves ~ will premiere at the Contemporary Art Museum of Uzbekistan in the fall of 2025, with some possible sneak previews this spring & summer.
Curating for over 3 decades, she’s programmed, produced, and directed film, music, dance & technology festivals, always advocating for a free submission process. She is co-founder and curator with joey zaza for the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art, mowna.org, an online digital art museum that pays its artists and she helped developed an AI curator biased for equity, inclusion, and diversity, for the mowna exhibit This Show is Curated by a Machine 🤖. In the web3 space, cari ann has curated for Objkt.one, the largest art market on the Tezos blockchain, for the Here & Now Antidote Festival and the generative art platform fx(hash). cari ann is in service as a Full Arts Professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she teaches dancers creative coding, filming the moving body, and video art for bodies in motion among other things.
She is a free diver, wild mushroom hunter, healing hedge witch, and nature worshiper certified 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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selected screenings
2025 body landscapes, Dance on Camera Film Festival, NY, NY
Two Seconds After Laughter, Dance Camera West, LA, CA
Chicken Boy, Cine-Jeune Film Festival, Thierry, France
body landscapes, 2025 Third Coast Dance Film Festival, Reno, NV
2024 body landscapes, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, SF, CA
body landscapes, Sans Souci Film Festival, Boulder, Co
Bleu, Sans Souci Fest 20th Anniversary Showcase, World Tour
SAND, Sans Souci Community Screening, San Marcos, TX
2023 bronx magic, Festival D'Olhar Itinerante, Brazil
bronx magic, Int'l Screendance Festival, Iowa City, IA
bronx magic,Sunderland Shorts Festival, United Kingdom
bronx magic, Thessaloniki Cinedance International, Greece
bronx magic, Breaking 8, Cagliari, Italy
bronx magic, InShadow Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
bronx magic, YoFiFest, Yonkers, NY
bronx magic, ScreenDance, Miami, Florida
bronx magic, Greensboro Dance Film Festival, North Carolina
bronx magic, Winter Film Awards, NYC
bronx magic, Athens International Film & Video Festival, Ohio
bronx magic, DVDanza Habana Festival, Havana, Cuba
bronx magic, Braga Int'l Video Dance Festival, Portugal
bronx magic, The People's Film Festival, Harlem, NY
bronx magic, Frame X Frame Film Fest, Houston, TX
2022 pandemic statements, NYC Indie Film Fest, NY, NY
2021 SAND, Sans Soucci, Boulder, CO
pandemic statements, Santa Monica College, online
2020 SAND, Trinity College, online
SAND, CineCorps, Paris, FR
2019 SAND, CineCorps, Rennes, FR
Gold in the River, CineCorps, Rennes, FR
The Last Leaf, CineCorps, Rennes, FR
Are You For Real?, CineCorps, Rennes, FR
The Last Leaf, Topanga Film Festival, LA, CA
2018 Her Magnum Opus, Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY
Her Magnum Opus, Dance on Camera, Lincoln Center, NY, NY
Her Magnum Opus, Rosendale Theater, Rosendale, NY
Two Seconds After Laughter, Moving Body Moving Image Fest, NY, NY
Parksville Murders, Ciné Corps, Paris, France
Two Seconds After Laughter, Ciné Corps, Paris, France
Besties, Ciné Corps, Paris, France
Her Magnum Opus, Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville, NY
Her Magnum Opus, SF Indie Fest, San Francisco, CA
Her Magnum Opus, Borrego Springs FF, Borrego Springs, CA
Her Magnum Opus, Rivertown Films, Nyack, NY
2017 Parksville Murders, VR Haunted Carnival, Los Angeles, CA
Parksville Murders, Samsung VR: An evening in 360, SF, CA
Her Magnum Opus, Port Townsend Film Festival, Port Townsend, WA
Parksville Murders, The Future of Storytelling, NY, NY
Her Magnum Opus, Upstate Films, Rhinebeck, NY
Body without a Brain, Ming Contemp Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Parksville Murders, Salem Horror Fest, Salem, MA
Parksville Murders, NY Indie Film Fest, NY, NY
SAND, Bare Bait Dance, Missoula, MT
Besties, YoFi Film Fest, Yonkers, NY
Besties, Golden Door Intl Film Festival, Jersey City, NY
Parksville Murders, Topanga Film Festival, Topanga, CA
2016 Body without a Brain, Salamanca Moves, Tasmania
Besties, Salamanca Moves, Tasmania
Besties, YoFi Film Fest, Yonkers, New York
Besties, Golden Door International Film Fest, Jersey City, NJ
Bleu, Sans Souci, Boulder, CO
Body without a Brain, Intl. Dance Fest de Almada, 24th, Portugal
Body without a Brain, Intl Video Dance Fest of Burgundy, France
Chicken Boy, Detroit Film Theater, Detroit Institute of the Arts
Two Seconds, Detroit Film Theater, Detroit Institute of the Arts
Chicken Boy, Ciné-Corps Strasbourg, Strasbourg
2015 Body without a Brain, 40 North Dance Film
Body without a Brain, Natl. Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Body without a Brain, Museo do Oriente, Lisbon
Rasa Dari Tari, Museo do Oriente, Lisbon
2015 Rasa Dari Tari, FEST, Masterclass, Portugal
Chicken Boy, Ciné-Corps Rennes, Rennes, FR
Body without a Brain, In/Motion, Chicago
The Fez, Topanga Film Festival, Topanga, CA
Are you for real?, Tees Dance Film Festival, Middlesbrough, UK
Rasa Dari Tari, Voarte Festival, Lisbon at Museo do Oriente
Body without a Brain, Voarte Festival, Lisbon at Museo do Oriente
Body without a Brain, Festival Intl du Film sur l'Art, Montreal
SAND, Hollywood Shorts, Hollywood, CA
2014 Body without a Brain, Hong-Gah Museum, Taiwan
Dragonfly, Topanga Film Festival, Topanga, CA
Body without a Brain, Topanga Film Festival, Topanga, CA
Body without a Brain, Mostra Intl de Videodanca, Brazil
Rasa Dari Tari, San Diego Central Library, San Diego, CA
Rasa Dari Tari, Weltmuseum, Vienna
Rasa Dari Tari, Ethnografilm Festival, Paris, France
Rasa Dari Tari, World Film Awards Festival,
Rasa Dari Tari, Intl Ethno Film Festival, Slavonia, Croatia
Rasa Dari Tari, Mostra Intl de Videodanca, San Paolo, Brazil
Body without a Brain, Dance Camera West, Los Angeles, Ca
Steep, ConSensus, Martha's Vineyard
2013 Two Seconds After Laughter, InShadow Festival, Portugal
Steep, DANCEFILM:13, Edinburgh, Scotland
Two Seconds After Laughter, Fargo Film Fest, Fargo, ND
Two Seconds After Laughter, Voarte Film Festival, Portugal
Two Seconds After Laughter, Memphis Indie FF, Memphis, TN
Two Seconds After Laughter, Dance on Film, Pleasanton, NY
Two Seconds After Laughter, Greenpoint FF, Brooklyn, NY
Two Seconds After Laughter, Rome Int’l FF, Rome, Georgia
Two Seconds After Laughter, Int’l FF, Jakarta, Indonesia
Two Seconds After Laughter, Destero Dance FF, Brazil
Chicken Boy, Flimmer Filmfestival, Norrköping
Two Seconds After Laughter, Biografia FF, Bologna, Italy
Two Seconds After Laughter, Women’s Ind. FF, West Hollywood, CA
Two Seconds After Laughter, Curt Ficcions Short FF, Spain
Two Seconds After Laughter, Asian CineVision National Tour, NYC
Two Seconds After Laughter, Kansas City FF, Kansas City, KS
Two Seconds After Laughter, Indie Grits FF, Columbus, SC
Two Seconds After Laughter, Women’s Int’l FF, Miami, FL
Two Seconds After Laughter, Women & Minorities in Media, MD
Two Seconds After Laughter, Intl Film Fest, Jakarta, Indonesia
Chicken Boy, American College Dance Festival, Durham, NC
Chicken Boy, Fest Intl, Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne, France
Dance Elephant Dance, Motion Pictures 13, Philadelphia, PA
Two Seconds After Laughter, Thin Line FF, Denton, Texas
May & June, ACDFA, Greensboro, NC
Chicken Boy, Loikka Film Festival, Finland
2013 Dance Elephant Dance, Loikka Film Festival, Finland
Dance Elephant Dance, Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS
2012 Chicken Boy, Dance Film Association DCF, NYC, NY
Dance Elephant Dance, Dance Film Association DCF, NYC, NY
May & June, En Route Film Festival, Dances Made to Order, online
Two Seconds After Laughter, SOUQ Film Festival, Milan, Italy
Dance Elephant Dance, Looking Left California, Santa Cruz, CA
Chicken Boy, Looking Left California, Santa Cruz, CA
May & June, Looking Left California, Santa Cruz, CA
Two Seconds After Laughter, Looking Left California, SC, CA
SAND, Looking Left California, Santa Cruz, CA
SAND, Yksin sateessa', Joensuu, Finland
SAND, DCT tour Virginia Commonwealth, Virginia
Two Seconds After Laughter, Vancouver Asian FF, Vancouver
Two Seconds After Laughter, Salt Lake City FF, Salt Lake City, UT
Two Seconds After Laughter, Nomad Express Festival, Burkina Faso
Two Seconds After Laughter, San Diego Asian FF, San Diego, CA
Two Seconds After Laughter,New Orleans FF, New Orleans, LA
Two Seconds After Laughter, The Cincinnati FF, Cincinnati, OH
Dance Elephant Dance, Third Coast Dance FF, Houston, TX
Chicken Boy, Sans Soucci, Bolder, CO
One Day on Earth, Topanga Film Festival, Topanga, CA
Dance Elephant Dance, Topanga Film Festival, Topanga, CA
Chicken Boy, Topanga Film Festival, Topanga, CA
One Day on Earth, Laemmle Theater, Los Angeles, CA
One Day on Earth, Chinese Mann Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Two Seconds After Laughter, Leo Museum, Salt Lake City, UT
Two Seconds After Laughter, Chicago Dancing F MOVIES, Chicago, IL
May & June , American Dance Festival, Durham, NC
Chicken Boy, American Dance Festival, Durham, NC
Two Seconds After Laughter, American Dance Festival, Durham, NC
Two Seconds After Laughter, Asian American Int’l FF, NYC, NY
Two Seconds After Laughter Asian Pacific FF, Los Angeles, CA
Two Seconds After Laughter, Delta Int’l Film & Video Fest, MI
SAND, D-CAF, Downtown Arts Festival, Cairo, Egypt
Two Seconds After Laughter, D-CAF, Downtown Arts, Cairo, Egypt
Two Seconds After Laughter, agite y sirva, Mexico, touring
One Day on Earth, United Nations General Assembly, New York, NY
SAND, River Run International Film Festival, Winston-Salem, NC
May & June , Loikka Film Festival, Finland
SAND, Loikka Film Festival, Finland
Two Seconds After Laughter, Byron Bay FF, Byron Bay, Australia
Two Seconds After Laughter, Asian American Int. FF, SF, CA
Two Seconds After Laughter, San Francisco Dance FF SF, CA
Two Seconds After Laughter, Dance on Camera Festival, NYC, NY
SAND, Dance on Camera Festival, NYC, NY
Two Seconds After Laughter, PLAY Intl Film Kumhei, Manipur, India
Are You for Real?, Dance @30FPS,OSU, Ohio
2011 SAND, In Shadow, Portugal
Are You for Real?, Coyote Film Festival, Lake County, CA
May & June, Looking Left California, Santa Cruz, CA
Two Seconds After Laughter, Looking Left California, SC, CA
SAND, Looking Left California, Santa Cruz, CA
SAND, JC Power House Film Festival, Jersey City, NJ
SAND, Docuweeks, Laemmle Sunset 5, Los Angeles, CA
SAND, Cannes, Emerging Filmmaker, Nice, France
January, Moves ’11, Manchester, UK
SAND, Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, WA
SAND, West Fest, New York, NY
SAND, Tallahassee Film Festival, Tallahassee, FL
SAND, Sans Soucci, San Antonio, TX
SAND, Dance In Focus, Keene State College, MN
SAND, Dance In Focus, Brunswick, Maine
SAND, Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS
January, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2010 SAND, Jumping Frames Dance Video Festival, China
SAND, IMZ Dancescreen, Vienna, Austria
January, Video Dance 2010, Athens, Greece
My 1st Big Break, DANCE:FILM 10 Tour Shorts
SAND, St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, MO
SAND, Austin Film Festival, Austin, TX
SAND, Harlem Film Festival, Harlem, NY
SAND, New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, LA
SAND, First Glance Film Fest, Philadelphia, PA
SAND, Rice Dance Film Festival, Houston, TX
Delicious Tree, Rice Dance Film Festival, Houston, TX
SAND, EDIT 2010, Budapest
SAND, International Independent Festival,Oaxaca, Mexico
SAND, SF Shorts, San Francisco, CA
Are you for real?, Topanga Film Festival, Topanga, CA
2009 January, Topanga Film Festival, Topanga, CA
SAND, Topanga Film Festival, Topanga, CA
SAND, Hollyshorts Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
SAND, DC Shorts, Washington, DC
SAND, NAFA Show Fest International, Sydney Australia
SAND, Quinzena de Dança de Almada, Portugal
SAND, Sans Soucci, Boulder, CO
SAND, Sans Soucci, Best of, Barcelona
Are you for real?, Sans Soucci, Best of, Barcelona
January, Sans Soucci, Best of, Barcelona
SAND, American Dance Festival, Durham, NC
SAND, Dance Camera West at REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
SAND, Dance Camera West, Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles, CA
January, Dance Camera West, Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Delicious Tree, 3rd Fresh Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
Are you for real?, Festival Internacional Danzalborde, Chile
January, Building Bridges Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
My 1st Big Break, The Great Wall, Oakland,CA
Are you for real?, The Great Wall, Oakland,CA
Delicious Tree, Attakkalari India Biennial, Bangalore
My 1st Big Break, Topanga Film Festival, Topanga, CA
January, Building Bridges Film Festival, Iran
Are you for real?, ADF, Durham, NC
Are you for real?, Dance:Film 09, Scotland
My 1st Big Break, Dance:Film 09, Scotland
My 1st Big Break, The Tiburon Intl FF, Tiburon, CA
My 1st Big Break, Sweden’s Garage, Sweden
My 1st Big Break, REZfest, Brazil
2008 Are you for real?, Jumping Frames, China
Are you for real?, Cinedans, Amsterdam
Are you for real?, Moves08, UK
Are you for real?, Sans Soucci, Knoxville, TN
Are you for real?, Sans Soucci, Chattanooga, TN
Are you for real?, Sans Soucci, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Are you for real?, South East Dance Cine Fest, UK
Delicious Tree, EDIT 2007, Hungary
Are you for real?, Topanga Film Festival, Topanga, CA
Bleu, Dance Camera West at REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Delicious Tree, Dance Camera West, Los Angeles, CA
Are you for real?, Silverlake Fringe Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Bleu, Sans Soucci, Boulder, CO
Bleu, Video Dance 2007, Athens, Greece
Bleu, FRAME Festival, Lisbon
2005 Fly, WAC is BACK, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Fly, Dance Camera West, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Falling, Dance Camera West, Los Angeles, CA
Riverflow, Dance Camera West, Los Angeles, CA