Lisa May Thomas is a dance artist and researcher, investigating the intersections of dance, embodiment, immersive performance and digital futures. She is a Research Fellow in Performance & Interactive and Immersive Technology at the University of South Wales. Her PhD (2021, University of Bristol) investigated the role of immersive technologies in performance, combining dance-somatic and improvisation practices with multi-person VR technology. Her work as Senior Research Associate at the ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures (Bristol) investigated predictive AI systems used for identification of vulnerable young people and she led on the production of a series of workshops with young people in Bristol creatively and critically interrogating and re-imagining data journeys and AI systems in their lives and futures. She is a resident at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol and Studio Wayne McGregor QuestLab Network Artist (London).