Lisa Birke has had solo exhibitions across Canada and her award-winning short films have been screened at more than 100 film/video festivals and media centres internationally, including: Time is Love, International Video Art Program, CCA (Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland), Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada), CAFKA (Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area, Canada), Tom Thomson Art Gallery (Canada), Remai Modern (Saskatoon, Canada), Athens International Film + Video Festival (USA), New Museum of Networked Art (Cologne, Germany and touring), Slamdance (Park City, USA), Florida Film Festival (USA), Arizona International Film Festival (Tucson, USA), Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media (Stuttgart, Germany) along with many others. Most recently, the short film "Dawn of Melancholy: A Birthday Soliloquy" was awarded a “Jury Award for Creative Achievement” at the Arizona International Film Festival (USA) in 2024 and the year before "Signs of Our Times" was awarded "Best Experimental" at the same festival. A survey program of Birke’s short film work and installation was presented at the International Short Film Week Regensburg (Germany, 2018). Birke is currently Associate Professor of Digital and Extended Media at the University of Saskatchewan where she is also the principal investigator for a augmented reality development project called shARed spaces.