Born in 1987 in Istanbul, Lara Kamhi is a Media Artist, Music Video Director and Expanded Cinema Curator currently based in Istanbul. Since 2010, Kamhi has exhibited and screened her works in galleries, museums, festivals and public spaces, nationally and internationally. Having been awarded for her media art, experimental films and music videos, she is also working as a visual, stage & lighting designer for plays, videos, concerts and events. She regularly gives seminars and presents video essays incorporating subjects such as history and futures of cinematic experience design, perception studies and semiotics, virtual reality and transcendence, immersion and the moving image. She is the founder and director of Prizma Expanded, an independent art initiative collaborating and creating extended dialogues with artists and filmmakers by exploring Expanded Cinema in its entirety. Being an AICA member (International Association of Art Critics), Kamhi frequently writes for PsikeSinema, PsikeArt and Art Hub Magazines while presently working on her next experimental film ‘Dans le Noir du Désir’ and preparing ‘The Ghost in The Machine’, her first book about Transcendence in Cinematic Experience Design.