Elle Mehrmand is a performance/new media artist and musician who uses the body, electronics, video, sound and installation within her work. She is the singer and trombone player of Assembly of Mazes, a music collective who creates dark, electronic, middle eastern, jazz rock. Elle is currently an MFA candidate at UCSD, a researcher at CRCA and the b.a.n.g. lab, and has received her BFA in art photography with a minor in music at CSULB. She has been awarded grants from UCIRA, the Russell Foundation and Fine Arts Affiliates. Her performances have been shown in Long Beach, Los Angeles, Tijuana, Montreal, Dublin, San Diego and Bogotá. Her work has been discussed in Art21, the LA Times, Juxtapoz, Furtherfield.org, Reno News and Review, the OC Weekly, VICE, and Networked Performance.

Mehrmand is currently working in collaboration with Micha Cárdenas on mixed relations, a series of performances that explore the relations between bodies and technology within mixed realities. The performances focus on using the body as an instrument to produce live audio, linking the physical and virtual worlds through sound. The goal is to look at bodies in relation to each other, as well as in relation to the technologies which extend and multiply them, sonically, visually and physically. The performances explore themes of affective tension and anticipation, techno-fetishism, and D.I.Y. cyborg bodies.