Katherine Helen Fisher is a director and interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of performance, expanded cinema, and computational media. Across stage, screen, and installation, she creates participatory works that treat the body as an interface—using algorithmic scoring, and real-time generative systems to examine agency, embodiment, and desire within contemporary image economies.
Her practice is grounded in a rigorous performance lineage. A former member of the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, she has also performed with the Merce Cunningham Trust, in Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach, with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Johannes Wieland and MOMIX, among others. Her work has been presented and supported by REDCAT, Judson Church, Danspace Project, Human Resources, the Barnard Movement Lab, Harvard metaLAB, Brown Arts Institute, The Smithsonian, Georgia Tech's Institute for People and Technology, and PBS.
Fisher's diverse portfolio of movement direction and creative production spans large-scale entertainment contexts such as America's Got Talent, alongside commercial collaborations with Hermès, Microsoft, Radiohead, and Rufus Wainwright. She is the co-founder of Safety Third, an award-winning digital media studio directing choreographically driven films for both cultural institutions and major brands, and Hyperreal Labs, a creative technology studio producing interactive media projects at the frontier of AI, human-computer interaction, and design. This work is motivated by a commitment to accessibility and shared authorship, creating interfaces that make complex generative systems ethically responsive in real time.
As a curator, Fisher helmed Dancing the Algorithm, a landmark exhibition of interactive and algorithmically scored performance installations that premiered as the inaugural exhibition in the newly rebuilt Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob's Pillow. The project received support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and was featured in The New York Times and Forbes.
Fisher is a recipient of the 2024 Google Artists + Machine Intelligence Faculty Research Award for her work on Lamentation: Dancing the Archive, an immersive installation reimagining Martha Graham's iconic 1930 solo through interactive, volumetric media. She has been supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, is a member of Jacob's Pillow's Digital Futures cohort, and co-chaired The State of Performance Art and Interactive Technology at the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. Fisher was a Visiting Assistant Arts Professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts in the Collaborative Arts Department from 2023–26. She holds a BFA from NYU Tisch, an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and is currently an ONX Onassis Fellow.