Laurel Lawson

Choreographer, product architect, and artist-engineer: Laurel is a transdisciplinary artist making work which imagines new kinds of experience. Their work features synthesistic mythology and embodied collaboration, including traditional choreography for both disabled and nondisabled artists and novel ways of extending and creating art through technology and design. As a product architect, she's designed systems and led teams in both consumer-facing and highly scaled infrastructure projects in areas ranging from communications to air traffic control to mobile products,.

Laurel began her dance career with Full Radius Dance in 2004. She is an artist and access & technology lead with Kinetic Light, the internationally acclaimed disability arts organization, co-founder and CEO of CyCore Systems, a boutique technology firm, and does select mission-centered leadership facilitation and strategic consulting.

Laurel’s latest project, in collaboration with Sydney Skybetter, is The Choreodaemonic Collective: centering embodied knowings of interdependence as artists, audiences, and AI contend with human-mediated symbiotic and adversarial relationships between nature, art, and emerging technologies. This work has received support from the Doris Duke Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and a Creative Capital Award.