cari ann shim sham* is an interactive artist focused on magic, generative movement as healing, self portraiture to process the experience of being female, inflatable sculpture as empathy generators, and the performance of the body’s energetic field in ritual and on the blockchain.
She often works in the nude.
Her live work centers on interactive scores and prompts that gather people together, using core images to trigger inner movement as resolution for healing.
Her generative works, made for meditative gazing and interactive play, are on chain, online, curated, collected and exhibited widely.
Her animated & cinematic works have won awards, screening globally, with some distributed on itunes, amazon, shorts international and four in the Routeledge Performance Archive.
She is the first video artist to redesign Rauschenberg's shiner for TRISHA BROWN SET & RESET/RESET. Her video art has toured internationally on the proscenium circuit and she performs live coding and live video art mapping which was recently featured in the Obsessed with Light Documentary film about Loïe Fuller.
She enjoys writing about her practice in publications found online & mostly on the blockchain and sometimes she curates.
As a contract faculty arts professor at Tisch NYU School of the Arts she delights in helping new artists develop their practice.
cari ann spends her free time in the woods hunting edible mushrooms and communing with nature.
cari ann shim shmm* in the metaverse
Bitch Co. performs Bubble Wrap for the Cirque du Soleil Opening Party for “O” at the Belagio, Las Vegas, 1999