Curator | Dancing the Algorithm
Katherine Helen Fisher is a multi-hyphenate dance artist and Emmy Award-nominated film director working at the intersection of performance and technology. Her practice centers agency, empowerment, and desire to imagine radical, techno-feminist futures. Current projects incorporate participatory installations using real-time generative AI and audience input to critically examine identity and embodiment in technologically mediated spaces.
Fisher has performed with the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, the Merce Cunningham Trust, and the Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach. Her work has been presented at Judson Church, Danspace Project, REDCAT, Human Resources, The Barnard Movement Lab, Brown Arts Institute, and PBS. She is the co-founder of Safety Third, a digital media studio through which she has directed numerous projects, including an experimental dance documentary with the disabled dance ensemble Kinetic Light.
Her movement direction spans collaborations with leading brands and artists, from Hermès to Rufus Wainwright and Radiohead. She is a joint recipient of the 2024 Google Artist + Machine Intelligence Faculty Research Award for Lamentation: Dancing the Archive, an immersive installation that reimagines Martha Graham’s iconic Lamentation (1930).
Currently, Fisher is a Visiting Assistant Arts Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.