Assistant Professor of Music Asha Tamirisa spoke to the Portland Press Herald about the IMStudio, a flexible high-tech space in Coram Library that recently hosted a multimedia project called Chronicle of a Fall, which depicts the layered sensory experiences of immigrant workers in the United States using projections, bodycam footage and surround sound. Co-created by artists Nadav Assor and Tirtza Even, Chronicle of a Fall, which ran from April 3 to May 2, 2025, is a prime example of the kinds of creative works Tamirisa and her colleagues in the Bates Arts Collaborative hoped to bring to Bates when they were advocating for and planning a multimedia studio on campus. The IMStudio opened in 2023. “We want it to feel like it could belong to anyone,” Tamirisa told the paper.

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Asha K. Tamirisa

Assistant Professor of Music