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Lisa Hirmer is an inter-disciplinary artist based in Guelph, Canada, working at the intersections of visual art, social practice, performance, and art-based forms of critical research. Her experimental public-focused practice, DodoLab, explores and responds to the complicated and nebulous reality of public opinion (acknowledging that this is itself a complicated idea). Her work as a photographer and writer explores contemporary landscapes and built environments. Operating both within gallery and non-traditional settings, she has created projects across Canada and internationally, at art galleries including Harbourfront Centre (Toronto), University of Lethbridge Gallery, Peninsula Arts (U.K.), Flux Factory (USA), Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery and Doris McCarthy Gallery (Toronto); for art events including Nuit Blanche Toronto and CAFKA (Kitchener-Waterloo); with service organizations, such as the Ontario Trillium Foundation (Sudbury); for municipalities, including Breckland Council (U.K.) and the City of Guelph; and academic groups, including the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (University of Guelph). Recent residencies include the Centre for Contemporary Art & the Natural World (U.K.), Time_Place_Space by Arts House (Australia), the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (USA). She is a graduate of the University of Waterloo.