Elise Kermani is a sound and intermedia artist based in New York City. She is Artistic Director of MiShinnah Productions and holds a PhD in Media Philosophy from the European Graduate School and a Masters in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago. She has collaborated with many musicians, actors, dancers, visual artists and puppeteers to realize her work, most recently Rinde Eckert, Pamela Z, and Theo Bleckmann for the 2012 performance/film of POE [...and the museum of lost arts]. Over the past 10 years she has collaborated and composed music for the choreographer Vicky Shick and visual artist Barbara Kilpatrick. In May 2012, she will travel to Athens, Greece with her 2008 film JOCASTA, a modern post-Freudian retelling of the Oedipus myth. You can contact Elise at: elise-at-elisekermani-dot-com.