Dr. Lemi Esthir

Esthir Lemi is a visual artist and composer. Her work focuses on the complementarity of art forms, including for example lighting design as part of her instrumentation in her scores. Her research on how technology interferes with its schemes in the arts and how this affects human sciences is presented at many conferences worldwide. Her artistic work based on multi-media installations is aimed at a broad public, in order to create an easily accessible innovative platform for both the artist/engineer and the audience. After achieving her piano diploma at the age of 17, she studied composition (Y. Ioannidis, J.

Brettingham-Smith, G. Toro-Perez) and western music aesthetics (PhD, School of Philosophy, Athens University). She also followed parallel studies in painting (ASFA, Athens) and multimedia (UdK Berlin). She represented her country at numerous events and international festivals (an ambisonic piece called Lai at Next Generation Festival Karlsruhe 2009, an interactive speaker entitled Aura at New Interfaces for Musical Expression NIME 2012 USA, the hybrid instrument Loompianola at Music Innovation 2016 in Cambridge UK, a music composition with an animated score that won the audience award at SMC Conference in Cyprus 2018, an installation for the fitting rooms at Galleries Lafayette Marseille France 2019) both as a visual artist and composer. In 2014, she was the first European artist to receive the

Fulbright Schuman funding, introducing a new concept of the artist as engineer/scientist. Examples of her work, research and exhibitions can be seen on this page: www.esthirlemi.com