About

Asha Tamirisa (she/her) is an artist and scholar whose work spans improvised sound performance, moving image and multimedia, and sound design.

As a performer, Tamirisa useds interactive digital technologies, analog modular synthesizers, and acoustic instruments in hybrid systems. 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 moving image and multimedia works engage the conditions and politics of metaphors, memory, and the overlooked. She has received support from The LEF Foundation Moving Image Fund, 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.

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.