About Lisa Kori

Lisa Kori is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, and musician based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Her diverse projects encompass wearable technologies, sound installations, experimental performances and films. She often juxtaposes craft and folk traditions with unexpected artistic contexts, including treating sewing, fabric dyeing, and pattern-making as performance art, building handmade musical instruments from everyday objects, and creating anti-surveillance devices using felt.

Lisa Kori has exhibited at Sónar Festival, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, Cité de la Musique, FABRICA, FutureEverything, Subtle Technologies, Tech Open Air and Wearable Futures. She has appeared in publications such as Vice, Vogue, Dezeen, Wired and Fast Company. Her work is documented in the books Crafting Wearables: Blending Technology with Fashion by Sibel Deren Guler, Madeline Gannon and Kate Sicchio (Apress, 2016) and Code as Creative Medium by Golan Levin and Tega Brain (The MIT Press, 2020). She is a recipient of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. 

Projects she is known for include Open Fit with Kyle McDonald, open source software to design pants on the fly, and Anti-NIS Accessories with Caitlin Morris, fantastical headgear to thwart mind-reading surveillance. Her project The Medium and the Mayhem documented experimental art and music scenes around the world. She collaborated with ethnomusicologist David Novak to publish their combined research in the third edition of Handmade Electronic Music by Nicolas Collins (Routledge, 2020).

Lisa Kori’s films have received multiple awards, including Best Experimental Film at the Madrid and Mindfield Film Festivals, as well as finalist recognition for the Lichter Art Award at the Lichter Filmfest in Frankfurt. Her work has been featured in Basement Films’ Experiments in Cinema, Kevin Smith’s Smodcastle Cinemas, and the New Mexico Filmmakers Showcase.

Turning her attention to the forgotten folk music history of Asian-American immigrants and informed by her background in speculative design and art, her forthcoming album Daughter of the West is a conceptual work that reimagines the music of the American West.

Please see lisakori.com for information about her upcoming album.

Lisa Kori usually uses she/her pronouns; they pronouns are also fine.