Birthday:

May 4

Website/Blog/YouTube/ or Viemeo site

https://www.ninasobell.com

When and how have you participated at SIGGRAPH Conferences? (exhibits, talks, panels, performance, screenings). OK if you have not participated.

I was at the SIGGRAPH in Dallas in the early 80’s And at the interactive ACM in Atlanta 1997

Are you a member of ACM SIGGRAPH?

Yes

Are you on a SIGGRAPH Committee?

No

Have you shown art in any SIGGRAPH Art Shows?

No

Have you shown in any SIGGRAPH Animation Screenings?

No

What countries do you work in?

USA

Short Bio

Nina Sobell is an interdisciplinary artist who thinks of herself as an electronic medium which led her to originate BrainWave Drawings, the interactive synchrony of brain waves between two or more people, creating the first combined physical and mental portrait by visualizing non-verbal communication, as evidenced in Dr. M. Barry Sterman’s Neuropsychology La in1974 in collaboration with Mike Trivich, and has been involved in extensive collaborative work with this series and others. She pioneered video, Brain-Computer interfaces, and was part of the feminist video performance movement of the 1970s. Sobell created the first live interactive wireless mobile webcam and transcontinental web performances at NYU’s Center for Advanced Technology in collaboration with Emily Hartzell with the historic internet collective, ParkBench where they were artists-in-residence 1994-1999. Sobell was artist-in-residence at NYU ITP 1990-1993. She was in shows curated by Suzanne Lacy, Bill Viola, Paul McCarthy and invited by Joseph Beuys to speak about her social sculpture, Videophone Voyeur at Documenta VI. Her work has been shown or is in the collection of DIA, the Whitney, Hammer, LACMA, LAICA, ICA London, LBMA, CAM Houston, Blanton Museum, MIT, Getty, ZKM, Whitechapel Gallery, Zwirner, Walter Phillips Gallery, Louisiana MoMA Denmark, Kunst Forum, Cornell, and the Kramlich collection among others. She has taught at UCLA, SVA and received an Arts Council of Great Britain, NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, Turbulence, Franklin Furnace awards and an Acker award in Video. She holds an MFA in sculpture from Cornell, where she is credited with doing the first thesis in video, and founding interdepartmental collaboration in 1969. BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple U. in Philadelphia and Rome.