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CV: NINA SOBELL
Professional Recognition and Appointments
2022 Techspressionism Digital & Beyond "FEMME TECH" Part One, Anne Spalter and Nina Sobell #femmetech
2021 Cristina Albu, “Planetary Re-Enchantment: Human-Animal Entanglements in Victoria Vesna’s Octopus Brainstorming,” MA Journal.
Ellen Pearlman review of “Brain Art: Brain Computer Interfaces for Artistic Expression” (Springer, A. Nijholt: Editor) International Journal of Arts and Technology, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2021
2020 Recipient of the Acker Award for Video
Before the First: a brief glimpse of the diversity of online performance created before 2020. Compiled by Annie Abrahams, Helen Varley Jamieson and Suzon Fuks. Edited by Suzon Fuks. View Video Cristina Albu, "Intimate Connections: Alternative Communication Threads in Nina Sobell's Video Performances and Installations (1974-1982), Camera Obscura: Journal of Feminism, Culture and Media Studies, Vol. 35, Issue 1 (Spring 2020): 38-75https://read.dukeupress.edu/camera-obscura/article-abstract/35/1%20(103)/39/164224/Intimate-ConnectionsAlternative-Communication?redirectedFrom=PDF Paula Sweet, “What is Between Us: A Visual Survey of Nina Sobell's work 2007- 2019. Vicenza, Italy: Second Guess Press, Amazon, 2020 Telluric Vibrations at Ars Electronica on panel organized by Cristina Albu Invisible Entanglements: Art, Distant Connections, and Biofeedback Review of Brain Art: Brain Computer Interfaces for Artistic Expression by Crisitina Albu for Leonardo https://leonardo.info/review/2019/10/brain-art-brain-computer-interfaces-for-artistic-expression
Nina Sobell UNSEEN: twenty-four-page folio, 24 pages 5.5” x 17”, in a handmade box, David Moscovitch, editor. Vol.1. 6 th ed.New York: Louffa Press, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-7m2XBqBsE&feature=youtu.be
2019 Nina Sobell, “Foreword," Anton Nijholt ed., Brain Art: Brain Computer Interfaces for Artistic Expression (Springer: Cham, Switzerland, 2019), pages v-vi. References to Sobell's work can be found in the Preface ix, Introduction pages 12-13, Appendix pages 25-27 and chapters by Flora Lysen pages 44-45; MirjanaPrpa and Philippe Pasquier 84-85; Suzanne Dikker, Sean Montgomery and Suzan Tunca 170; Laura Jade and Sam Gentle pages 255-256. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030143220
2018 “Interactive BrainWave Drawings presentation”, LASER Leonardo Art and Science Forum, New York. "Networked Projects in the Formative Years of the Internet: Nina Sobell - Work: 1977-1997" Judy Malloy, Editor, MIT Press, in Networked Art Works in the Formative Years of the Internet, an ongoing supplement to the book. https://www.narrabase.net/Nina_Sobell.html 2017 “History of Interactive Brain Wave Drawings,” an invited panel presentation for the Brain On Art Conference, Valencia, Spain. “Grey Matters,” video in collaboration with Laura Ortman - music, commissioned by Leo Kuelbs collection. 2016 “Subliminal,” video in collaboration with Laura Ortman - music, commissioned by Leo Kuelbs collection. 2015 “WMAT, White Mountain Apache Territory,” video in collaboration with Laura Ortman - music, commissioned by Leo Kuelbs collection. 2011 Artist-in Residence, Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy 2010 “Brain Chat,” patent pending and “Brain Chat,” US Trademark Presenter for “the Future of Art and Technology Conference”, Zaragoza Art and Technology Center, Zaragoza, Spain 2008/07 New York Artist-in-Residence Invitational, Location One, New York supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts 2006/05 Visiting Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, University of London 2002 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship nominee in Media Arts 2001 New York State Council on the Arts, Artist Fellowship, “Brain Wave Drawings.” 2000 Panasonic Information Network Telecommunications Lab invitation to develop the first multi-online meeting application 1999 The Webby Awards nominee for “ParkBench,” internet interface with Emily Hartzell Computer Arts Panelist, Artists Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts 1998 Turbulence Commission and the Jerome Foundation Fellowship for “Ebb and Flow,” Brain Wave Drawing internet performance with Jesse Gilbert and Sonya Allin Artist-in-Residence Banff Center For the Arts, “The Long March,” Banff, Canada 1997 “Uncommon Sense Show” at the Geffen Contemporary (the huge industrial shed that is the annex of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles) – Presenter of the paper “Art, Anarchy and the Web” with Emily Hartzell and collaborator on Karen Finley's piece, “Go Figure”, a collaboration with ParkBench, which uses interactivity to offer the audience opportunities for self-expression--through drawing from a live model in Go Figure, and in “Fear Of Offending,” through entering into a computer terminal and posting on the Web the answer to the question "What Offends You?"
1994 - 1998 Artist-in-Residence, Center for Advanced Technology, Courant School of Computer Science, NYU 1991 - 1993 Artist-in-Residence, Artist-in-Residence, ITP, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU 1990 Franklin Furnace Fellowship Grant
Solo Shows 2020 UNSEEN UNHEARD, video 6min 6sec at the Window Museum, curated by Beatriz Albuquerque, Matosinhos, Portugal https://youtu.be/vTCNVOE5P5k 2020 Nina Sobell, Hindsight is 2020, The Wrong Biennale, curated by Bjørn Magnilhoen, White Page Gallery, Valencia, Spain, Archived at http://noemata.net/wpg/nina/ 2008 Internal Message Search, Gallery Area 53, Vienna, Austria catalog from show by EvelinStermitz https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/29938585/nina-sobell-evelin-stermitz Not About: Is, Location One Gallery, NY 2006 Reap Video Collaboration Making Love With a Chair, Anne Bean’s Show at Matt's Gallery, London 2001 Liwase, Video Documentary of Zambian Street Theater Group with Anne Bean 1998 Interactive
Installations, 1974 - 1998, DAAD Studios, Berlin with Emily
Hartzell
1990 Exhumed, Live performance, DCTV Downtown Community Television Center, supported by Franklin Furnace Fellowship Grant, New York https://vimeo.com/373461912
Group Shows 2020
UNSEEN UNHEARD: April - June 2020 Video 6’08, CHOHW - Dark Moon, curated by Anne Bean, Three Colt Street Gallery, London View Documentation
Undocumented Events and Object Permanence, Unseen Unheard curated and registered as non-commercial NFTs by Bjørn Magnildøen
View Online
The Right Fish Kiss View MP4 and The Moon and Steam Dancing, View MP4 at One-Off Moving Image Festival; The Lower East Side View Video at Long Single Take Movies, - both curated by Bjørn Magnildøen at One-Off Moving Image Festival;
One-off Moving Image
Festival, curated Bjørn Magnilhoen, organized by Noemata, Norway, and
worldwide. 2019 Subliminal, video, curator Tom Rotenberg, Mitte Media Festival, DNA Galerie, Berlin
From Last to First-30 Digital Shorts, Mitte Media Festival DNA, Galerie, Berlin Subliminal, Estirando El Tiempo, curator Elizabeth Ross, Museo del Metro, Mexico City 2018 Grey Matters, premiere collaboration with Laura Ortman, curated by Able Sun, IFP Dumbo and Projected on the Brooklyn Bridge, NY Duo-Synth and Apache Violin live performance with Laura Ortman, for Sarah Bernstein’s record release event, Wonders of Nature, Brooklyn, NY Rivington School Show, ink drawing, curator Adriaan van der Plas, Adriaan van der Plas Gallery, NY The LES Festival for the Arts Show, Two Drawings, curator, C. Radcliffe, Theater for the New City Gallery, NY Digitally Derived, BrainWave Drawings, curated by Nancy Buchanan organized by Minha Horvat, Maribor, Slovenia Subliminal video, Estirando El Tiempo, curator, Elizabeth Ross, Museo de la Ciudad, Querétaro, Mexico Subliminal video, Hysteria Online, curator Elizabeth Ross, Mexico City 2017 ParkBench, FACES: Gender, Art and Technology, co-curators Eva Ursprung and Kathy Rae Huffman, Schaumbad Freies Gallery, Graz, Austria Glass Breaking Live performance, Optics: 0:1 curated and directed by Victoria Keddie, Roulette, Brooklyn 2016 Subliminal premiere video collaboration with Laura Ortman composer, curator John Ensor Parker, IFP Dumbo and Projected on the Brooklyn Bridge 2015 Views, WMAT video commissioned and curated by Leo Kuelbs, IFP, Brooklyn, NY Views, WMAT LKC Leo Kuelbs collection, Manhattan Bridge Projection, NY Views, WMAT curated by Leo Kuelbs, Fata Morgana Gallery, Berlin Form and Substance: Projection, Lighting and Mapping, WMAT, Art Basel Miami Poet Transmit, WMAT video, curated by Victoria Keddie and Cat Tyc, St. Mark’s Church, NY and Wave Farm Radio www.wavefarm.org
2014 L.E.S. Scene Then and Now, curated by Shalom Neuman, Fusion Art Museum, NY Drawings, curated by Anne Bean and Ezra Rubenstein, 80 Three Colt Street, London 72 -82 Acme Gallery Film by William Raban, Hackney Picture House, London Performance Documentation of Acme Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, London Personae, Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, Venice, Italy S(he) is still Her(e), curated by Johnny Velardi, Rivington Music Studio, NY 2013 Not Only This: New Language Beckons Us, curated by Andrew Blackley, Fales Collection, NYU Corps et Ames, prints, Atelier Galerie MLC, Vains, France
2012 Papyri, curated by Berty Skuber, Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, Venice, Italy Housework, Gender, Subjectivity: Cultures of Domesticity, curated by Molly Hankwitz, The Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California Another Vacant Space, curated by Adam Nankervis, Man Museum, Berlin WBAI Art Auction, curated by James Wintner, Steven Kasher Gallery, NY
2011 Into the Pot You Go! curated by Carol Stakenas, Pacific Standard Time, LACE, LA supported by the Getty Research Institute 2010 Los Angeles Goes Live, interview series, LACE, Los Angeles, supported by the Getty Research Institute Glow, curated by Adam Nankervis, Z-Bar, Berlin, Germany A Feast for the Eyes, curated by Heike Epildauer, Kunst Forum, Vienna 2009 ArtFemTV, curated by Evelin Stermitz, Gallery Photon, Ljubljana, Slovenia tina b. curated by Monika Burian, The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Vernon Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic Way Out, Pavilhao, curated by Graça Countihilo, Lisbon, Portugal 2008 Apocalypse Show, sculptures, curated by Johnny Velardi, Garage Gallery, Brooklyn Waves-The Art of the Electromagnetic Society, Hartware Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany Ca Video Show, videos Hey! Baby Chicky!!!, Chicken and participatory Brain Wave Drawing Installation and documentation, curated by Glenn Phillps, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California 2007 Evidence of Movement, curated by Glenn Phillips, Getty Research Institute, LA, Ca. Cyber Feminism Past Forward, Austrian Association of Women Artists, Vienna The Future of the History, Space Gallery, New York Slapstick, curated by C. Eammons, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
2006 Making Love With a Chair, collaborative video for Reap, Anne Bean’s Show at Matt's Gallery, London KISSS, curated by Deej Fabyc, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK/Sidney, Australia 2005 Art/ Sound, curated by J. Slater, Front Room Gallery Williamsburg, Brooklyn 2004 Synaesthesia, Thinking of You, interactive participatory installation of Brain Wave Drawings on the internet, Institute of Contemporary Art, London UK 2002 Art/Women/California 1950-2000, curated by Judy Malloy, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, Ca. 2001 Liwase, Video Documentary of Zambian Street Theater Group with Anne Bean 2000 Sharing a Shadow, Three Colt Gallery, London 1999 Streaming: A Laboratory, with E. Hartzell/ Sonya Allin, curated by John Tucker,W. Phillips Gallery, Banff Sunshine & Noir: Art in Los Angeles 1960-1997, UCLA at The Armand Hammer Castello di Rivoli, Italy, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Louisiana MOMA, Denmark 1998 Interactive Installations, 1974 - 1998, curated by David Medalla, DAAD Studios, Berlin with Emily Hartzell Ebb and Flow, Web performance, Morton Studio, turbulence.org with Jesse Gilbert and Sonya Allin 1997 Dance in a Moving Mirror streaming with Hartzell/Gilbert, RAT, Aix-en-Provence, France A transatlantic live streaming event, one of the very first. Adrift (web performance), Ars Electronica with Gilbert, Hartzell, Thorington, Wolsak Pink Wink, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles Pasarse de la Raya, Expoarte, Guadalajara, VI Feria Internacional de arte Contemporaneo PORT, four-screen web projection performance, MIT List Visual Arts Center Blast5, Time Curators and web/video installation (ParkBench), Sandra Gering Gallery 1996 Art on the Web (ParkBench), Whitney Museum of American Art Language and Disorder: videotapes, New Langton Arts, San Francisco 1995 Alice Sat Here, telerobotic installation w/Hartzell in CODE, curated by Roz Dimon, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, NYC 1993 LA ·Sampler 1970-1993, Hey, Baby Chicky! Paul McCarthy curator, David Zwirner Gallery, NYC Scratching the Belly of the Beast, Brainwave Drawings, Los Angeles Film Forum 1992 Installation: painting, sculpture, and 2 channels of video, Granary Books Gallery, NYC Brainwave Drawing Installation, Bronx River Arts Center, Bronx 1991 Drawings, Elston Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY Cori: Struggle for Life, video work, Speaking Out: Art Against AIDS, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1990 Cori: Struggle for Life, Video Against AIDS, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, The Indomitable Spirit, video work, International Center for Photography, NY Beyond Boundaries: Paintings, Black and White in Color Gallery, Bronx
Bibliography Nina Sobell UNSEEN: twenty-four-page folio, 24 pages 5.5” x 17”, in a handmade box, David Moscovitch, editor. Vol.1. 6 th ed.New York: Louffa Press, 2020 Cristina Albu, "Intimate Connections: Alternative Communication Threads in Nina Sobell's Video Performances and Installations (1974-1982)," Camera Obscura: Journal of Feminism, Culture and Media Studies, Vol. 35, Issue 1 (Spring 2020): 38-75. 2020 Paula Sweet, “What is Between Us - Nina Sobell,” Second Guess Press, 2020. 2019 Nina Sobell, “Foreword," Anton Nijholt ed., Brain Art: Brain Computer Interfaces for Artistic Expression (Springer: Cham, Switzerland, 2019), pages v-vi. References to Sobell's work can be found in the Preface ix, Introduction pages 12-13, Appendix pages 25-27 and chapters by Flora Lysen pages 44-45; Book Review (Int. J. Arts and Technology, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2021) by Ellen Pearlman MirjanaPrpa and Philippe Pasquier 84-85; Suzanne Dikker, Sean Montgomery and Suzan Tunca 170; Laura Jade and Sam Gentle pages 255-256. 2018 "Collision: Contemporary Artists Working in Houston, 1972-1985 by Pete Gershon" Texas A&M University Press 2018, 158-160 "Networked Projects in the Formative Years of the Internet: Nina Sobell - Work: 1977-1997" December, 2018 Judy Malloy Editor (www.narrabase.net/Nina_Sobell.html) (Networked Art Works in the Formative Years of the Internet is an ongoing supplement to the MIT Press Book: Social Media Archeology and Poetics) 2013 "Gendered: Art and Feminist Theory” by Tal Dekel, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2013 Pages 49, 90 2010 "A Feast for the Eyes/ Augenschmaus Vom Essen im Stilleben" by Heike Epildauer and Ingried Brugger,Prestel Verlag 2010 Berlin, Bank Austria Kunstforum
2009 "tina b. Prague Contemporary Arts Festival" edited by Monika Burian,curated by Blanca de la Torre Garcia, Vernon Fine Art, Czech Republic 2009 "Nina Sobell at Gallery Area53" by Gesche Heumann, Art Magazine, Austellungkritik, 25.07.08 2008 "California Video: Artists and Histories", edited by Glenn Phillips, Getty Research Institute; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240677858_ California_Video_Artists_and_Histories_edited_by_Glenn_Phillips_Getty_Publications_Los_Angeles_CA_USA_2008_312_pp_illus_Hardcover_ISBN13_978-0-892-36922-5
"Allure of the Raw: Ca Video" by Hollis Willis, Modern Painter, March https://www.eai.org/user_files/supporting_documents/Holly_Allure%20of%20the%20Raw_2008.pdf 2008 "Digital Art” by Christiane Paul, Thames and Hudson, London https://thamesandhudson.com/digital-art-9780500204238 2007 "Interview with Nina Sobell" by Evelin Stermitz, published by Marisa Olson, Rhizome.org, August 21, 2007 (August 21, 2007) https://rhizome.org/community/9286/ 2006 "Video Art": Michael Rush, Thames and Hudson, 2006 "Feedback": editors Horsfield /Hildebrand, Temple University Press, 2006 "Closed Circuit": by Slavko Kacunko, Logos Verlag, Berlin "Digital Art” by Christiane Paul, Thames and Hudson, London "Art/Women/California 1950-2000" editors Burgess/Salvioni https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520230668/art-women-california-1950-2000
2002 University of California Press and the San Jose Museum of Art (2002), p. 326. "Streaming the Brain" by N. Sobell, Multi-Media, Artful Media ed. Doree Duncan Seligmann IEEE Computer Society, Vol. 9, No. 3 (July-September, 2002), p. 3—8. "Info Arts-Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology" by S.Wilson, MIT Press (2002). 2001 "Sculpting in Time and Space: Interactive Work" by Nina Sobell and Emily Hartzell, Leornardo, MIT Press, Vol.34, No.3 (2001). https://direct.mit.edu/leon/article/34/2/101/43999/Sculpting-in-Time-and-Space-Interactive-Work 2000 "The Robot in the Garden" by Ken Goldberg, MIT Press (2000)15 .https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/2544/The-Robot-in-the-GardenTelerobotics-and "Going Virtual" by Martha Wilson, CAA Art Journal, Summer, https://doi.org/10.2307/778105 "Artful Media," by Kathy Brew, IEEE Multimedia, 1999 http://ivizlab.sfu.ca/arya/Papers/IEEE/Multimedia/1999/April/Artful%20Media.pdf "Women in Art and Technology" edited by Judy Malloy, MIT Press 1999 https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/women-art-and-technology 1998 "A Brief History of Outrage: The 51 (or So) Greatest Avant-Garde Moments," by C. Carr, Village Voice, September 22, 1998. https://www.villagevoice.com/1998/09/22/a-brief-history-of-outrage/ 1997 "On Edge: The Heart of the Web," by C. Carr, Village Voice,Vol. 42, No. 25 (June 24, 1997), p.50 "VirtuAlice," by Sobell and Hartzell, Ylem , Vol. 17, No. 9, (September/October, 1997), p. 5. "Telepresence Art," by Eduardo Kac, Art Journal, College Art Association, 1997 http://beausievers.com/bhqfu/computer_art/readings/kac-robotic_art.pdf. "Naked to the Bone",by Betty Ann Kevlis, Rutgers University Press, 1997. https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780813523583
1996 "Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media", by Margot Lovejoy, Prentice Hall, 1996 (second edition).https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9780131587595 "ParkBench," interview with Doug Grunther, WDST Woodstock Radio, October, 1996. "ParkBench Public Access Kiosks," Visual Proceedings, Siggraph '96. "ParkBench Sculpting Performances," The Acid-free Paper (web journal), edited by Kevin Smith, Vol. 1, No. 4 (January, 1996), Net Culture section. "Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies" by Chris Straayer, Columbia University Press, 1996 http://cup.columbia.edu/book/deviant-eyes-deviant-bodies/9780231079792 "The Buzz" by Sobell and Hartzell, TalkBack! journal on the Web, edited by Robert Atkins. Issue #1 (December, 1995). <http://math240.lehman.cuny.edu/talkback> "Art Online" by Robert Atkins, Art in America, Vol. 83, No. 12 (December,1995), p. 64. "Technology: Do You Mind if I Sit Here?" by Kimberly Neuhaus, I.D.,Vol. 42, No. 2 (March-April, 1995), p. 24. "ParkBench," Artists' Pages by Emily Hartzell and Nina Sobell, Felix: Landscape(s) Vol. 2, No.1 (1995), pp. 302-5. Interactions, Vol. IV, No. 2, June, 1992. https://www.cat.nyu.edu/parkbench/about.html Interactions, Vol. III, No. 1, April, 1991 Felix (review of EXHUMED & Video 1972-90), Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), p. 71-73.
Lectures 2007 IMHO with Heather Wagner, Location One, NY 2002 Artist Talk, SUNY Purchase, Department of Art, Purchase, New York 2001 Artist Talk, Computer Art Department, School of Visual Arts, New York 2000 Nina Sobell: Video Performances, NYU School of Food Sciences 1999 Artist Talk, Sony Wonder HD Theater and Technology Museum 1997 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Stevens Institute of Technology Digital Landscapes of the Mind, London Institute ISEA (International Society of Electronic Arts), Chicago Art Institute Art Talk Art: Art, Anarchy, and the Web, Foundation for Art Resources, LA LA Museum of Contemporary Art, Geffen Contemporary LA, Art Talks '97 1999 Artist Talk, Sony Wonder HD Theater and Technology Museum 1997 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Stevens Institute of Technology Digital Landscapes of the Mind, London Institute ISEA (International Society of Electronic Arts), Chicago Art Institute Art Talk Art: Art, Anarchy, and the Web, Foundation for Art Resources, LA LA Museum of Contemporary Art, Geffen Contemporary LA, Art Talks '97 Cornell University, Creativity Symposium Art, Culture, and Technology, Teacher's College, Columbia University, CHI '97 (Computer-Human Interaction), Atlanta Central St. Martin's School of Art, London 1996 ParkBench, Artist's Presentation, Siggraph '96 1995 Art and Science Collaborations, Inc., Cooper Union Great Hall, New York 1993 Department of Fine Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 1991 The Slade, St. Martins, Newcastle, Brighton Poly, E. London Poly, Brunel University, Reading.
Collections Archivo Storico delle Arti Contemporane; La Bienalle di Venezia, Italia; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada; deSaisset, Museum of Art; Manchester Art Gallery, England; Reading University, England; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; Zentrum fur Kunst Und Medien Technologie, Karlsruhe, Montevideo, Amsterdam; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Western Front Video, Vancouver; DIA Foundation; Cologne; Kramlich Video Collection; Blanton Library, Austin,Texas; Leo Kuelbs Collection, RJFleck, Gunther Broder and other private collections and academic institutions.
Education BFA Tyler School of Art 1969, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Rome, Italy MFA Cornell University 1971, Ithaca, New York |