Asha Tamirisa experimental electronic musician, media artist and  researcher whose work engages media materiality, history and memory, and identity. 

Her work has been supported by The Kitchen’s L.A.B Research Residency, the Ellis Beauregard Foundation Project Grant, the Maine Arts Commission Fellowship in Media Arts, the Media Archeology Lab, Perte De Signal, Hewnoaks, and I-Park Foundation. Her scholarship has appeared in the Journal for Popular Music Studies, the Feminist Review, and in edited volumes. She has performed at the ICA Boston, the Boston Museum of Science, Bitforms Gallery (NYC), the Waterworks Museum, for Indexical’s Digital Alchemy series, and at several community spaces. Between 2013-2017 Asha was part of OPENSIGNAL, a collective organized around concerns for gender and race in electronic media practice. She is now part of PICNIC COLLECTIVE, a collaborative and process oriented community art endeavor. 

Asha holds a Ph.D. in Computer Music and Multimedia and an M.A. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University, and has taught at Street Level Youth Media, Brown University, RISD, and Bates College.