Asha Tamirisa (she/her) is an artist and scholar who uses sound, video, and text to create critical, poetic, and multi-sensory installations and performances. Her work often engages the conditions and politics of metaphors, memory, and the overlooked. She has received support from The Kitchen’s L.A.B. Research Residency, the Media Archeology Lab Artist in Residence Program, Perte De Signal’s Research-Creation Residency, I-Park Foundation Moving Image Artist in Residence Program, the Maine Arts Commission Media Arts Fellowship, and Le Laboratoire’s ArtScience Converged Commission. Her work has been exhibited/screened at The Portland Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, Connecticut College’s Cummings Art Gallery, UnionDocs, Punto y Raya, WomanMade Gallery, and New Zealand International Film Festival.

For more than a decade, Tamirisa has been active as a sound artist and improvising performer, performing with interactive digital systems, analog modular synthesizers, and recently, with drums and low-budget audio hardware. She has performed at the ICA Boston, the Boston Museum of Science, Bitforms Gallery (NYC), for Nonevent’s Waterworks Festival of Experimental Music, for Indexical’s Digital Alchemy series, and at several community spaces. Her research on gender and sound has appeared in the the Feminist Review, Journal for Popular Music Studies, and in edited volumes including ‘Modular Synthesis: Patching Machines and People” (Routledge). 

Between 2013-2017, Tamirisa 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 that has received support from the Ellis Beauregard Foundation and SPACE Gallery’s Kindling Fund.

Tamirisa 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.


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