Norah Zuniga Shaw (ZShaw) is an artist and director of performance and technology projects at the intersection of body and ecology, collaboration and liberation. Called “wildly creative” by the NYTimes, her work is exhibited worldwide and has won numerous awards and features. Major projects include Livable Futures public practice and podcast, Synchronous Objects (2009) and Degrees of Unison (2010) with William Forsythe and Maria Palazzi, TWO (2013) with Bebe Miller, Dancing Life in The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance (2019), Upwelling (2022) a sonic and visual poem memorializing the early days of the pandemic and premiered at the Wexner Center for the Arts (WCA). ZShaw partnered with the Doris Duke Foundation to convene and facilitate an expert research exchange at ACCAD on XR Performance and Pre-visualization including exploring opportunities in generative AI. She  is currently touring two transmedia performance rituals Climate Gathering and Climate Banshee, developing a Mixed Reality opera, OASIS XR with composer Byron Au Yong, and co-editing the Routledge Companion on Performance and Technology with Maaike Bleeker due out in 2026. ZShaw co-founded the Motion Lab at ACCAD in 2005, fostering hundreds of intermedia research and performance innovations by faculty, students, and guest artists. In 2016, she co-created Motion Lab's Opportunities for Artists residency program and has served as techno-dramaturge and lead facilitator, collaborating with the Wexner Center for the Arts to support work by Andre M. Zachery / Renegade Performance Group, Awilda Rodriguez Lora / Sustento, Complex Movements, PamelaZ, Ohad Fishof and Noa Zuk, Ati Cachimuel / Andean Indigenous Cosmologies, Brotherhood Dance Co and many others. ZShaw teaches interdisciplinary arts theory and practice and she continues to perform, publish, present and consult internationally.