lisa glenn armstrong

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Lisa is a Chicago-based designer, musician, and facilitator whose practice moves between the tactile and the intangible. Her work explores the shifting boundaries between emergent technologies and traditional print processes, treating both as living systems rather than fixed tools. By weaving together sound design, moving image, and light, she creates sensory environments that invite reflection, disorientation, and reorientation—encouraging audiences to question perception and uncover the layered nature of human experience.

Collaboration is central to her approach. Lisa designs with participation in mind, building frameworks that prioritize collective authorship, shared inquiry, and community engagement. Her work often unfolds as an open-ended process, where outcomes are shaped as much by those who encounter it as by the artist herself.

Rooted in Chicago’s creative and mutual aid ecosystems, Lisa serves on the board of the Chicago Printers Guild as part of the Design Bureau and contributes as a volunteer organizer with Love Fridge Chicago, supporting food sovereignty through accessible, community-powered infrastructure. Her musical practice extends these values into sound, as one half of the electronic duo Drasii and as co-producer of Chando Radio on Lumpen Radio.

In 2024, she founded Shape Shift Press, a platform for publishing artist books, writing, and collaborative print works that foreground experimentation, hybridity, and collective voice. Across mediums, Lisa’s practice is guided by a commitment to connection—between people, disciplines, and ways of sensing the world.

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Check out what Lisa is currently researching on are.na.

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