Lila Moore is a pioneering artist, filmmaker, screen choreographer, networked performance and mixed reality creator. She holds a practice-based PhD in Dance on Screen from Middlesex University (2001, UK) in the context of modern and contemporary art, experimental film, screen dance and performance with special reference to ritual and myth. Lila Moore also holds an MA in Independent Film and Video and an MPhil on the evolution of performative and screen-based art forms from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. The Cybernetic Futures Institute is based on her postdoc at the Planetary Collegium of Plymouth University, which she completed in 2015. It is a networked platform exploring technoetic arts, emphasising the spiritual-mystical and occult in art, film, screen-dance, and networked-digital-interactive forms of performance and narrative.
Lila Moore’s body of work evolved from her early multimedia performances and experimental film and video in the 1980s-1990s to choreography for the camera and the screen in the late 1990s. Her exploration of liminal characters, space-time, and noetic states of consciousness has led her to practice cyber-performance. She has also introduced and developed the concepts of Networked Rites, which are collaborative digital performances that explore the intersection of technology and spirituality, and Noetic Fields Weaving, a term she coined to describe the process of creating immersive digital environments that evoke altered states of consciousness.
Lila Moore is not just an artist, but also a respected theorist and lecturer. Her writings about digital art, film, culture, and new technologies in the context of technoetic arts, modern and contemporary spiritualities, mysticism, consciousness studies, and transpersonal psychology are highly regarded. She has presented many papers at academic conferences such as EVA London, SIGGRAPH 2020 and Consciousness Reframed.
Lila Moore regularly participates in international, juried and curated exhibitions. She also curates the White Empathy Box online gallery and is a member of White Page Gallery/s and FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology. She co-chairs The Spirituality and the Arts, SASIG of the International Network for the Study of Spirituality.
More recently, Lila Moore has been experimenting with AI models and coined the term NAI: Noetic Artificial Intelligence in her article on Technoetic Magick (Proceedings of EVA London: 2024). NAI is a concept that merges the fields of artificial intelligence and noetic sciences, exploring the potential for AI to enhance human consciousness and spiritual experiences.
Lila Moore has exhibited her digital videos and artworks in various international exhibitions, screenings, and juried exhibitions. These include solo and group shows, as well as screenings at renowned film festivals, including exhibitions organised by FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology and SIGGRAPH.
websites:
https://www.cyberneticinstitute.com
https://www.cyberneticfutures.com
https://www.aleftrust.org/about/team/lila-moore