Movement Lab MeMoSa: Algorithmic Bodies by Katherine Helen Fisher
Katherine Helen Fisher presents: MeMoSa: Algorithmic Bodies
Thursday, February 13th, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM (Doors open at 5:30 PM)
Address: Movement Lab, The Milstein Center LL020, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
During the recent winter break, multi-hyphenate dance artist Katherine Helen Fisher developed her project, Algorithmic Bodies, at the Movement Lab. Algorithmic Bodies examines the intersection of performance, interactive technology, and speculative futures. Led by Fisher, this MeMoSa (Media Movement Salon) gathers works that dissolve the boundaries between the physical and digital, human and machine.
Algorithmic Bodies bridges the archival with the emergent, drawing from the past to envision new imaginaries. Moving through multi-channel media installation, volumetric video, generative machine learning, and AR tracking, performances emerge that reflect and reimagine embodied agency within technological frameworks. Contributing artists—Shimmy Boyle, Mingyong Cheng, C. Finley, August Henderson, Allysen Hooks, Joshua Kaddish, Kate Ladenheim, Armon Naeini, Jean Sonderand, Andy Tierstein, Sinziana Velicscu, Xin Ying and Alan Winslow—bring diverse practices in choreographic thinking which offer a polyphonic crafting, where multiple temporalities intersect.
To visit, please RSVP or contact us via email at movement@barnard.edu at least 24 hours before the event. We will coordinate your entry through the main entrance (3009 Broadway). Visitors with Barnard/Columbia IDs can walk in.
Capacity in the lab is capped at 40 audience members. Attendees who have RSVP'd before the event will have priority, and admission will be determined on a first come first serve basis on arrival. If you RSVP before the event but arrive late, we reserve the right to give your spot to someone on the waitlist.
Attendees who have not RSVP'd will be put on a standby waitlist if they arrive in person before the event.
Katherine Helen Fisher is a dancer, choreographer, curator, creative producer, and Emmy Award-nominated film director. Her work interrogates boundaries between digital and physical worlds through the intersection of performance and technology. She creates participatory performance installations that center agency, empowerment, and desire, as they seek to imagine radical, techno-feminist futures. Drawing from a distinguished performance history that includes the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, the Merce Cunningham Trust, and the Philip Glass opera Einstein On The Beach, Fisher critically engages themes of performativity and representation in her artistic research.
Fisher’s work has been presented by Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Judson Church, Danspace Project, The REDCAT, Human Resources, The Barnard Movement Lab, Brown Arts Institute and PBS. She is also a co-founder of Safety Third, a digital media studio through which she has directed numerous projects. These include: One + One Make Three, an experimental dance documentary created with the disabled dance ensemble Kinetic Light, the film CEILING, which won Best Dance Short at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, and Le Monstre, a wearable performance garment that received a Jury Prize at the International Symposium on Wearable Computers. Her movement direction portfolio spans collaborations with renowned brands such as Hermès and Microsoft, as well as work on music videos for acclaimed artists like Rufus Wainwright and Radiohead, and creative for the television show America's Got Talent. She is a recipient of a 2024 Google Artist + Machine Intelligence Faculty Research Award in support of Lamentation: Dancing the Archive, an immersive installation reimagining Martha Graham's iconic 1930 work, Lamentation.
Fisher is currently a Visiting Assistant Arts Professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she teaches dance technique as well as courses in expanded cinema and the integration of emerging digital media with live performance. She is currently curating Hyperreal Futures: Choreographing the Algorithmic Body, an interactive exhibition where bodies blend with algorithmic interfaces at the Doris Duke Theater at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in summer of 2025.