Strangers' pixels merge in Lisa Jamhoury's sync : mirror

sync : mirror is an interactive installation for two or more people standing on either side of a screen. The installation tracks each body as it moves, and the pixels of the people on each side overlap and separate, building what Lisa Jamhoury calls "a living map of their hybrid fascia."

Jamhoury is a movement artist and programmer whose work sits between the physical body and computation. The piece was shown at Onassis ONX in New York in 2025, and Jamhoury talked through the longer project of living inside digital copies of ourselves on a Killscreen podcast episode earlier this year.

It shows at TODA, the Theatre of Digital Art in Madinat Jumeirah, as one of eight works in the venue's program for ISEA2026, the International Symposium on Electronic Art. The symposium runs across Dubai through Nov. 15 under the theme ELYAH: Constellating Place, Data and Identity; the TODA program closes Nov. 10. Entry to the live program is free with registration.

Jamhoury built sync : mirror with a team covering visual effects, sound design, installation production and graphic design, with support from Onassis ONX. The other works at TODA include Simone Martinotta's Shifting Selves, Dylan Davis's Object Murmuration and REWA WRIGHT and Simon Howden's Between Species.