Lián Amaris is a writer, artist, and experience designer working to connect real world experiences, performance events, and the new media landscape. Amaris is the Product and Creative Director at Enole where she oversees product management and development, educational initiatives, immersive environments, transmedia storytelling, gaming, live events, and artistic applications. Amaris is a researcher and editor for media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, a contributor to The Next Web, and Artistic Director of the Vector Art Ensemble, with co-founder Thomas Patrick Naughton. Recent popular projects include Silicon Valley Ryan Gosling and "Things that cannot screen for cancer."

Amaris has Master's degrees in Performance Studies and in Interactive Telecommunications, both from New York University, and has contributed articles on performance and media to Theatre Journal, TDR: The Drama Review, and Explorations on Media Ecology, along with several edited collections including Simulation in Media and Culture (McFarland), and Digital Visual Culture: Intersections and Interactions in 21st Century Art Education (The National Art Education Association). In 2011 she was a writing resident with Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. She has presented her art and scholarship at nine international conferences and at over 20 festivals, including such venues as Cambridge University, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, UC Santa Cruz, and the Recoleta Cultural Center in Argentina. After three years as a professor of performance studies and digital media at Colorado College, Amaris joined the Education Division of the Brooklyn Museum where for a year she oversaw programs for college and graduate students and worked to bridge the gaps between performance, visual arts, and new media through public programs. In her capacity as a researcher and editor for Douglas Rushkoff, she has worked with him on his books Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, Life, Inc.: How the World Became A Corporation and How To Take It Back and Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out.

Amaris has performed full-length original work at a number of internationally recognized spaces for experimental theater including Performance Space 122, Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater, HERE Arts Center and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Her 2009 monologue, Swimming to Spalding, directed by Richard Schechner, was called "a riveting piece of theater" with "some of the most powerful indictments of contemporary warfare that have been on stage in recent memory" by Backstage. Her 2007 72-hour performance art event with R. Luke DuBois, Fashionably Late for the Relationship (covered by The New York Times, The New York Post, Reuters, Allure Magazine, and The Denver Post), has been presented in film and installation form at the Guggenheim, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Soho Esquire House, and several national festivals. She has designed and produced both large-scale public events for audiences of over 20,000, and intimate interactive events devised for individual experience. Favorite directing credits include Ellen McLaughlin's The Trojan Women, Sarah Kane's 4:48 Psychosis and Kafka's Shortest Works, a staging of ten stories by Franz Kafka.

We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;— World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. - Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1874)