Katherine Helen Fisher is a dancer, choreographer, curator, creative producer, and Emmy Award-nominated film director working at the nexus of performance and computational media. Her practice centers on participatory installations and algorithmically scored artworks that invite agency, embodiment, and deep audience immersion. Drawing from a distinguished performance history with the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, the Merce Cunningham Trust, and Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach, Fisher brings a critical lens to questions of embodiment, performativity, and representation. Her work has been presented by institutions including Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, Judson Church, Danspace Project, REDCAT, Human Resources, the Barnard Movement Lab, Harvard metaLAB, Brown Arts Institute, and PBS.
Fisher is the founder of Hyperreal Labs, a creative technology studio producing large-scale interactive and computational media projects at the frontier of AI, dance, and design. She is also the co-founder of Safety Third, an award-winning digital media studio through which she directed projects such as One + One Make Three, an experimental dance documentary with the disabled dance ensemble Kinetic Light; CEILING, winner of Best Dance Short at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival; and Le Monstrè, a wearable performance garment that earned a Jury Prize at the International Symposium on Wearable Computers before being presented at the Smithsonian. Her movement direction portfolio spans collaborations with Hermès, music videos for Rufus Wainwright and Radiohead, and work on America's Got Talent.
Her curatorial practice includes Dancing the Algorithm, a landmark exhibition of interactive and algorithmically scored performance installations. Premiering in 2025 as the inaugural exhibition in the new Doris Duke Theater at Jacob's Pillow, the project received support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and was featured in The New York Times and Forbes. The exhibition included a digital catalogue and convenings with international artists working at the edge of performance and computational media. Fisher is a recipient of the 2024 Google Artist + Machine Intelligence Faculty Research Award for Lamentation: Dancing the Archive, an immersive installation reimagining Martha Graham's iconic 1930 solo, and has also been supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Art. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Arts Professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she teaches dance, expanded cinema and the integration of emerging digital media with live performance.