Lisa Moren is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with emerging media, bio-matter, public space, and works-on-paper. She created an early virtual reality project, “Practically Tender”, in 1991. Since 2001, she has worked with communities to document under-represented memories from Berlin and cities in Central and Eastern Europe that were archived as interactive installations.
Her collaboration with biologist Dr. Tsetso Bachvaroff, “What is the Shape of Water?” is a cross-species artwork allowing the public to interact with millions of bioluminescent organisms. Their second collaboration, “Under the Bay”, is an augmented reality data-driven narrative streamed from live under the bay sensors; and “NONUMENT01::The McKeldin Fountain” is an earlier experimental documentary in augmented reality. NONUMENT is a full-scale simulation replacing a demolished utopian-style fountain in Baltimore City’s Inner Harbor and Free Speech zone in collaboration with the NONUMENT Group and the Museum of Transitory Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Lisa has also created pigments out of polluted waterways, including her projects “Chesapeake Bay Water Watercolors” in Baltimore and “eLAND” in the Australian outback, and “Marbleized Paper from the Gulf of Mexico” off the coast of Louisiana, where she collected oil during BP’s Deep Water Horizon rig spill, which devastated the Gulf of Mexico.
Lisa Moren has exhibited her work at the Chelsea Art Museum, the Creative Time summit, and the Drawing Center viewing program in New York City and in Brooklyn, the Cranbrook Art Museum and international venues including uShaka Museum [South Africa], Ars Electronica [Austria], and Akademie der Kunste [Germany], and the Artists Research Network [Australia]. She received the National Endowment for the Arts award, is a Fulbright Scholar to Czech Republic; a multi-year recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council and CEC Artslink International and the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fellowship in Film and Media at Johns Hopkins University, R.W. Deutsch Foundation. She has been awarded an artist-in-residency at the Insitute of Marine and Environmental Technology [IMET]; the Banff Centre for Art, Canada; STEIM, Amsterdam and Harvestworks, NYC.
Her work has been featured in the Guardian, The Washington Post, B’More Art, LINK, and her writing has appeared in Performance Research; Visible Language; Inter Arts Actuel; New Media Caucus for “Algorithmic Pollution: Artists working with Dataveillance and Societies of Control” and “CYBER IN|SECURITY” featuring curated works by artists Hasan Elahi, Heather Dewey Hagborg, David Rokeby, Preemptive Media, and others; and her own books on Intermedia and Dick Higgins; and Issues in Contemporary Theory for “Command Z: Artists Working with Phenomena and Technology” featuring exhibited artists Paul DeMarinis, Nina Katchadourian, Ingrid Bachmann and Emile Morin & Jocelyn Robert.
Lisa Moren is a Professor of Visual Art at the University of Maryland Baltimore County [UMBC] since 1998; and taught at FAMU and AVU in Prague; and the University of California San Diego [UCSD]. She is an Affiliate Faculty at the Imaging Research Center [IRC] at UMBC.
Lisa lives in Baltimore City with her two children.
