Lián Amaris

Lián Amaris
Born Springfield, MA
Occupation Performance Artist
Years active 2002-present
Website http://lianamaris.com

Lian Amaris is a writer, artist, and creative communicator working to connect real world experiences, performance events and the new media landscape. She is Artistic Director of Vector Art Ensemble and has authored five plays and performances that have been professionally produced at such venues as Nuyorican Poets Cafe, HERE Arts Center, The University of Chicago, P.S. 122, the Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans) and The University of Massachusetts. Her work also includes popular memes such as Silicon Valley Ryan Gosling and Things that cannot screen for breast cancer.

Amaris has Master's degrees in Performance Studies and in Interactive Telecommunications, both from New York University, and has contributed articles on performance and media to Theatre Journal, TDR: The Drama Review, and Explorations on Media Ecology, along with several edited collections. In 2011, she was a writing resident with Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and, in 2012, she was a writer for The Next Web. She has presented her art and scholarship at nine international conferences and at over 20 festivals, including such venues as Cambridge University, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, and the Recoleta Cultural Center in Argentina. After three years as a professor of performance studies and digital media at Colorado College, Amaris joined the Education Division of the Brooklyn Museum where for a year she oversaw programs for college and graduate students and worked to bridge the gaps between performance, visual arts, and new media through public programs. In her capacity as a researcher and editor for Douglas Rushkoff, she worked with him on his books Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age; Life, Inc.: How the World Became A Corporation and How To Take It Back; and Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out. Since 2011, Amaris has been based in the San Francisco Bay Area and has engaged actively with both the Art and Tech scenes.

Notable theatrical works

Scholarship

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Journal articles

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Other theatrical appearances

Press features on Silicon Valley Ryan Gosling

Print press

Online press (Excluding Articles Also Appearing in Print)

Notes

  1. Zinoman, Jason (December 9, 2009). "Spalding Gray Continues on as Inspiration". The New York Times. New York City, New York: The New York Times Company. Retrieved December 11, 2009.
  2. Propst, Andy (December 7, 2009). "Swimming to Spalding". Backstage. New York City, New York: Nielsen Business Media. Retrieved December 11, 2009.
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