ParkBench Bibliography
- "Four Bones Coolness
Award":
GetOnline's Gollywood Server Push Animation Festival, January, 1996.
- "ParkBench Sculpting Performances": The Acid-free
Paper,
edited by Kevin Smith, v. 1, No. 4 January, 1996. Net Culture section.
- "The Buzz," by Sobell and Hartzell, TalkBack!
edited by Robert Atkins. Issue #1 December, 1995.
- "Art On Line," by Robert Atkins, Art in America cover
story, v. 83, No. 12 December, 1995. p. 64.
- "Do You Mind if I Sit Here?" by Kimberly Neuhaus, I.
D. Magazine v. 42, No. 2 March-April, 1995. p. 24.
- "ParkBench," Artists' Pages by Emily Hartzell and Nina Sobell,
Felix: Landscape(s) v. 2, No.1, 1995. pp. 302-5.
Nina Sobell
Nina Sobell is an artist who first began to use
electronics when she videotaped participants' undirected interactions with
her
giant movable sculptures as her Master's
Thesis from Cornell in 1971. Her
work in the field since then has included an interactive public-access
video/EEG interface, public-access
videophone interface, and the installation of a matrix of
oscillating cameras in
a NYC storefront. With ParkBench she adds the functions of the internet
to the videophone in order to continue to create mediating architectures
which the public can take over and put to their own uses. In addition,
she continues to produce sculpture, lithographs, and drawings. Here are
inline images of some recent figurative
sculpture.
Emily Hartzell
Emily Hartzell is
Artist-in-Residence at NYU's Center for
Digital Multimedia, where she is
developing public-access ParkBench Web kiosks. She has pioneered the use of
real-time video on the Web through a series of Monday Night
Sculpture
Performances. She received her MFA in Computer Art from the School of
Visual Arts, and produces on Mac and UNIX platforms. She is currently
working in Web design, multimedia production, and the assembly of
advanced input devices for Digital Image
Design. She graduated
magna cum laude in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard
University, where her focus was on writing and visual literacy.
As a multimedia artist and independent curator, her work has received
favorable reviews. Her work in kiosk design has been reviewed in
numerous arts, design, and technical journals, and she has been invited
to present the project at Cooper Union and Tisch School of the Arts at
New York University.
Here are some inline images of recent photographs.
