Asha Tamirisa is an artist and scholar who works with sound and image in performance and installation. She has held artist residencies at The Kitchen, The Media Archeology Lab, Perte De Signal, Hewnoaks Artist Colony, and I-Park Foundation, and received fellowships and support from the Ellis Beauregard Foundation, the Maine Arts Commission, SPACE Gallery’s Kindling Fund, and Le Laboratoire. Her work has been exhibited/screened at The Portland Museum of Art, Connecticut College’s Cummings Art Gallery, Punto y Raya, WomanMade Gallery, New Zealand International Film Festival. 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. Her research on sound and audio cultures has appeared in the the Feminist Review, Journal for Popular Music Studies, and in edited volumes including Modular Synthesis: Patching Machines and People. 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 multidisciplinary and collaborative 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, where she is currently an associate professor.


email: ashatamirisa at gmail dot com
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