asha tamirisa


education

Ph.D.   Brown University, Computer Music and Multimedia Composition
M.A.    Brown University, Modern Culture and Media &
M.A.    Brown University, Computer Music and Multimedia Composition
B.A.    Oberlin College, Music 


academic positions


2025-        Bates College - Associate Professor  
2019-24    Bates College - Assistant Professor
2017-18     RISD - Adjunct Instructor


awards and residencies

2025    Space Gallery Kindling Fund (w/ Carolina Gonzalez Valencia)
2023    Ellis Beauregard Foundation Project Grant (w/ Carolina Gonzalez Valencia) 
2023    The Kitchen x SFPC x Simon’s Foundation LAB Residency
2022    Maine Arts Commission Media Arts Fellowship 
2022    Hewnoaks Artist in Residence
2019    Foundation for Emerging Technologies and Arts (FETA): Sound Art Prize Finalist
2019    Media Archeology Lab | Boulder, CO: Artist Residency 
2018    Mount Holyoke College | Holyoke, MA: Visiting Artist 
2018    Wheaton College | Wheaton MA: Evelyn Danzig Haas Visiting Artist   
2018    Perte de Signal | Montreal CA: Artist Residency                                          
2017    Le Laboratoire ArtScience Converged: Commission                
2013    I-Park Foundation | East Haddam CT : Artist Residency  

 
collections

2023    Portland Museum of Art, Permanent Collection 
2021    Rhizone Artbase 


exhibitions

2023    SOUR SOLVENTS, video installation, Portland Museum of Art: Portland ME
2022    Rock Music, family friendly interactive installation, Tommy’s Park: Portland ME
2021     a long breath, public art installation, Congress Square Park: Portland ME
2020    SOUR SOLVENTS, public video installation “Re-Site,” Space Gallery: Portland, ME
2020    SURFACE / BELLY, web, Flourish Festival: Fredericton, Canada
2020    ARTIFACT, Regeneration: Arts & Tech Summit: New London, CT
2018    untitled sound installation, Non-Event Year-End Fundraiser, The Yard: Boston MA
2017    Contingent Contortions, sound installation, Le Laboratoire: Boston MA
2013    RING. sculpture/installation, I-Park Foundation: East Haddam, CT
2011    Minimalism in the 21st Century, video installation, WomanMade Gallery: Chicago IL, v

      

[for performances, see “news” section] 


publications

“Patching Possibilities: Resisting Normative Logics in Modular Interfaces.” Modular Synthesis: Patching People and Machines. Routledge, 2024. “Sonic Activism in the Integrated Circuit.” Feminist Review. Special Issue: Sonic Cyberfeminisms. ed. M. Thompson, A. Goh. 2021.
“Switched on Bach, by Roshanek Kheshti & Wendy Carlos: A Biography, by Amanda Sewell.”  Journal of Popular Music Studies. ed. D. Suisman, A.Vesey. 2021.
“Muffwiggler: Sexism in Audio Culture.” Bluestockings Magazine. 2014.  


releases

2020    Waiting is a Place - format: digital
2018    100% Synthetic - format: DVD Compilation | Label: Estuary Ltd.                
2016    Callus / Redux - format: digital | Label: Pan Y Rosas Discos                    
2015    OPENSIGNAL 2015 Compilation - format: CD | Label: group release
2014    Moments of Pleasure [Kate Bush Tribute] - format: cassette | Label: Wicked City 
2014    SOTO | Park + Tamirisa - format: cassette / digital | Label: Private Chronology
2014    OPENSIGNAL Compilation - format: vinyl | Label: group release        
2014    & The ARP2500 - format: digital | Label: self-released