Lisa Jamhoury is an artist and performer working at the intersection of the physical body and computation. Her Capture Series—five years in the making—investigates what it means to live through digital representations of ourselves. Lossy, the newest piece in the series, had its world premiere at South by Southwest 2025.

In this episode, I talk with Lisa about how a traumatic car accident sent her from circus performance into software design, a 1940s sculpture called Norma that explains everything wrong with how we build technology today, what it actually feels like to walk through Lossy, and why she reached for Kurt Vonnegut to write through grief.

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• (00:00) - What Lossy Means
• (00:20) - Meet Lisa Giammori
• (03:02) - Trauma To Tech Critique
• (10:26) - Naming The Capture Series
• (14:20) - Norma And The Perfect Body Myth
• (15:59) - Wrap Up and Where Next

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In this episode, I talk with Greek artist Kyriaki Goni about Telling the Bees —her in-development game about a character called the Bee-Seeker, searching for the last surviving bees in a near-future Aegean archipelago on the edge of ecological collapse.

We get into the ritual that gives the game its name, the anthropological research behind every design decision, and why she wants players to physically perform the waggle dance to unlock parts of the game.

This is exactly the kind of work I cover at Killscreen: art that uses interactivity to reveal something true about the world that couldn't be said any other way.

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• (00:00) - Ritual of Telling Bees
• (00:34) - Meet Kyriaki Goni
• (01:30) - Naming and Family Traditions
• (03:33) - The Basket Origin Story
• (07:20) - Researching Ancient Beekeeping
• (10:23) - Designing the Bee Seeker
• (12:41) - Wrap Up and Where Next

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Jakob Kudsk Steensen has spent fifteen years building a practice that doesn't fit neatly into any single category. He's not a game designer in the commercial sense. He's not exactly a filmmaker or a sculptor. He's someone using the tools of game engines to document ecologies that are disappearing.

In this conversation, we talk about how he started modifying Unreal Tournament at 12 and never really stopped. We talk about why Fortnite's commercial success is directly responsible for the expressive tools artists like Jacob now use for free. We talk about the Far Cry 2 modification he made seventeen years ago—a swimmer, an island, a slope too steep to climb—that was the first time he thought of himself as an artist.

We talk about the Berola glacier, which he digitized in 2022 and which collapsed the following year. We talk about what it actually feels like to dive into a volcanic vent. And we talk about Song Trapper—his most narrative work yet, and his return to something that looks more deliberately like a game.

The full Otherworlds exhibition is on view at Phi Centre in Montreal through the summer.

• (00:00) - Meet Jakob Kudsk Steensen
• (01:27) - Origins Nature and Mods
• (04:42) - Why Unreal Works
• (09:16) - Other Worlds and Mourning

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