loss·y

by Lisa Jamhoury

Situated at the physical-virtual threshold, loss·y memorializes corporeal passing and digital rebirth. The work intertwines animated sculptural “dances” with interactive spatial audio, inviting audiences to navigate invisible thresholds as they move.

loss·y presents three split-seconds of a motion-captured female-female pas de deux: each moment is suspended in a vignette that overlaps projection and 3D prints encapsulating the dance in sculpture, with spoken-word poetry and spatial sound design. The installation’s audioscapes blend cold technical facts, accounts of digital dysmorphia and surveillance, and computer-generated sampling, creating an elegy to the vital body that is at once human and digital.

On its surface a critique of today’s techno-society, loss·y collusively takes up digital reduction and surveillance as creative media, revealing reverence for the uncanny wonder that pulls us forward into our new, hybridized world.


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loss·y's interactive audio system is powered by Unwired Dance Theatre using technology originally developed for Where We Meet. The system leverages real-time motion capture and game engine spatial audio to track audiences in space, creating a natural, embodied, multi-participant experience.


loss·y is an official selection of SXSW 2026 and will be presented in Austin, TX (US), March 12-18, 2026

Credits

Created by
Lisa Jamhoury

Spatial Audio System Partner
Clémence Debaig / Unwired Dance Theatre

Sound Artist
Matt McCorkle

Choreography and Performance
Hybrid Movement Company
Françoise Voranger, Andrea Nikki Ortiz

Dramaturg / Voice
Emily Reilly

Unreal Engine Development, Visual Effects
Lisa Jamhoury, Matt Romein, Sneha Belkhale

3D Modeling, Photogrammetry
NYCAP3D, Woraya Boonyapanachoti, Guðjón Örn Lárusson, Lisa Jamhoury, Huascar Acosta, Neil Jakeman

Motion Capture Technician, Animation, Poetry
Lisa Jamhoury

Producer
Maia Sauer

Technical Production
Lisa Jamhoury, Dan Ribaudo, Astro Lee

Supporters

Kings Culture London
NEW INC / New Museum
Onassis ONX
EY Metaverse Lab
Media Art Xploration OptiTrack
British Council

loss·y is part of the Future Art and Culture programme at SxSW produced by British Underground and Arts Council England with partnership support from the British Council.