L’entrée, 2024 © Lisa Jamhoury
Amid the global migration between physical and virtual worlds, L'Entrée delves into the desire to capture, understand, and keep unchanged the vital human body. Part audio poem, part augmented reality (AR) experience, L’Entrée reveals a series of virtual sculptures situated in centuries of human movement along the newly pedestrianized area of Strand/Aldwych. The sculptures, created in a gaming engine with photogrammetry, motion capture, and computational averaging, each perform a virtual “dance” immersing viewers in their unique forms as spatial sound pulls listeners between the tangible streets of London and the intangible world of Web3/XR technologies.
Lisa Jamhoury, a Lebanese-American movement artist and programmer creating embodied, computational experiences. Rooted in contemporary circus and mindfulness, her practice includes interactive performances, installations, and websites that encourage a consensual, celebratory approach to humanity’s shared physicality. As an aerial acrobat, she has choreographed and performed across the United States. Supporters of her work include Ars Electronica, Meta Open Arts, NEW MUSEUM / NEW INC, and New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she completed her master’s degree and is an adjunct arts professor.