Inflatables as Empathy Generators

Working with inflatables as empathy generators since 2014, cari ann shim sham* has many projects with her lovely collaborators Director/choreographer Emily Beattie, Producer/Opera On Tap Anne Hiatt, Generative Sound/xr artist joey zaza, & Inflatable Architect Mary Hale that explore the wind filled immersive inside worlding of the blowing up of things.

the secret gathering, dance prompts, June 2025

inside the secret gathering, June 2025

zashim generative XR album, 2025

shimmer the singing sea anemone, 2016-2026

shimmer small anemones at Every Woman Biennial, 2024

Tomatillo, Kingsborough Art Museum, 2025

shimmer small anemones, Northeastern University, 2023

shimmer the singing sea anemone, interactive floor residency, 2018

See | Be See, Boston Arts Center, Dec 2019

Dance Like No One is Whalewatchiing, 2018

Parksville Murders XR exhibition, Samsung VR, SF, 2016

Parksville Murders XR exhibition, Samsung VR, SR, 2016

Parksville Murders XR exhibition, Samsung VR, San Francisco, 2016

Parksville Murders XR exhibitions, Samsung VR, San Francisco, 2016