CV: NINA SOBELL

Professional Recognition and Appointments

2025 Cristina Albu Interviews Nina Sobell about BrainWave Drawings, with Adam Hart of Media Burn, Chicago, Illinois (Zoom).

  Techspressionism panel “Origins” Salon, organized by Michael Pierre Price, (Zoom).

  ACM SIGGRAPH SPARKS TALK (Jan 2025):
Title: Sensing the Body to Expand Possibilities in Art and Performance
Invited presenter re: BrainWave Drawings
Moderated by: Elizabeth Jochum, Alan Macy, & Bonnie Mitchell

2024 Nervous Extensions for Planetary Balance in Nina Sobell’s Collaborative Séances,by Cristina Albu, Contemporary Scholarship, Leonardo, Vol. 58, No.1, Pages 59-65, The MIT Press.

  BrainWave Drawings 1974, The History of EEG Research in Cybernetics and artistic Expression: Biological Feedback and Structural Coupling, presented by Merve Sahin, Conference for the American Society for Cybernetics, Washington, DC.

  PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (2024) 46 (2 (137)): 25–34. MIT Press, by Ellen Pearlman. LINK

2023 Internet Firsts You’ve Never Heard of: Nina Sobell, Emily Hartzell & ParkBench’s Safe Place to Sit in Cyberspace, produced by Franklin Furnace, Internet Symposium. Video Link.

  International Paneling: Interviewed by Leo Kuelbs, (On-line) Video Link.

  “Nervous Extensions for Planetary Balance in Nina Sobell’s Web Seances by Cristina Albu accepted for RE:SOURCE and presented at the10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Francesca Franco, Chair, Venice, Italy.

  Nina Sobell interviewed by Renata Janiszewska, Techspressionist Artist Interview Series #23 Video Link.

2022 The EEG + Intimate Connections + Art of Nina Sobell, moderated by Ann McCoy, UCLA Department of Science and Media Arts https://vimeo.com/709733862.

  Dimensions of Science and Spirit: Ann McCoy Interview and Presentation with Nina Sobell, Victoria Vesna, Christine Davis, and Amy Myers, for the Brooklyn Rail March 18th at 1:00 [View recording on Youtube: https://youtu.be/-l9lsU5I_EI].

Techspressionism Digital & Beyond "FEMME TECH" Part One, Anne Spalter and Nina Sobell #femmetech
Youtube Link

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): 38-75 (View Abstract) (View Full Article)

Paula Sweet, “What is Between Us: A Visual Survey of Nina Sobell's work 2007- 2019. Vicenza, Italy: Second Guess Press, Amazon, 2020. Purchase Link

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 Cristina 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, (View Book Launch) (View Complete Folio) My Unseen Unheard video is the basis for this folio (Video Link)

2019 Nina Sobell, “Foreword," Anton Nijholt ed., Brain Art: Brain Computer Interfaces for Artistic Expression (Springer: Cham, Switzerland, 2019), pages v-vi. MirjanaPrpa and Philippe Pasquier 84-85; Suzanne Dikker, Sean Montgomery and Suzan Tunca 170; Laura Jade and Sam Gentle pages 255-256. (Brain Art Excerpts) (More Info) 2 Book Reviews: Ellen Pearlman/a> || Christina Albu

https://www.ninasobell.com/ninasobell/review_pearlman.pdf

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

2025 GammaTime Indexical Gallery, Allen Riley, curator, Santa Cruz, California.

WebLink 2024 Nina Sobell, a Retrospective Presentation, Curated by Katherine Liberovskaya of Experimental Intermedia at the Emily Harvey Foundation, New York. Video

2023 Nina Sobell, Intermedia Interactivity, curated by Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti of Microscope Gallery, New York. Video

2020  UNSEEN UNHEARD, video 6min 6sec at the Window Museum, curated by Beatriz Albuquerque, Matosinhos, Portugal https://youtu.be/vTCNVOE5P5k

Nina Sobell, Hindsight is 2020, solo show, works 2015 - 2019  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 Evelin Stermitz

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
Ebb and Flow, Web performance, Morton Studio, supported by turbulence.org and the Jerome Foundation (J.Gilbert/S.Allin)  New York 

1990 Exhumed, Live performance, DCTV Downtown Community Television Center, supported by

Franklin Furnace Fellowship Grant, New York https://vimeo.com/373461912

Group Shows 

2025 Lines of Resolution: Drawing at the Advent of Television, co-curated by Dr. Anna Lovatt and Kelly Montana, The Menil Drawing Institute, Houston Texas October 4 - February 8, 2026

The First Circle: Radical Humanism, curated by Natasha Chuk and Claudia Hart, Microscope Gallery, New York, New York “GammaTime” was a performative part of this historical show.

Hello Chelsea, Techspressionism Video history of BrainWave Drawings 1973 - 1992, Guild Hall, Chelsea, New York

  Sound for Film, solo and group sound works, in collaboration with St. Celfer and Sachiko Hayashi, VEKKS Gallery, Vienna.

Radical Software: Women Art and Computing 1960-1991, curator Michelle Cotten, assistant curator Sarah Beaumont, Kunsthalle, Vienna

Women Artists of Rivington School: Then and Now, Mémoire de l'Avenir Galerie, Paris, France.

2024 Radical Software: Women, Art and Computing 1960-1991 Curated by Michelle Cotten, assistant curator, Sarah Beaument, MUDAM, Luxembourg

Hello Brooklyn- Digital and Beyond, Tommy Mintz, curator, Kingsborough Art Museum, Brooklyn, New York.

Digital and Beyond, The Wrong, curated by Colin Goldberg, (Online Exhibition) Web Link Techspressionism Show, Joey Zaza and Carrie Ann Shim Sham, curators, MOWNA Museum of Wild and New Fangled Art, (On-line), Web Link 2023 Women’s Works: Artists Working in 1970s & 80s, Jane England, curator, England and Co Gallery, London, England. Web Link || Press Release

  “BrainWave Drawings” & “Hey! Baby Chicky!”, Renaissance 3.0, curated by Peter Weibel and Anett Holzheid, ZKM - Center for Art and Media, Karlsrhue, Germany, Web Link

  “Four From the 60’s and 70’s: “Chicken On Foot” video, with Joan Semmel, Philip Guston and Harold Stevenson, curated by Claire Howard, Blanton Museum, Austin, Texas. View Video View Installation

The Wrong Biennale Web Link

2022 Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond, curated by Colin Goldberg, Southampton Arts Center, Long Island, New York.

  “ Zap” video: in 13th Seoul Metro International Film Festival; Copenhagen Film Festival; Madrid (Spain) International Film Festival.

 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 Solar Wind Weaving Sun and Moon Link | Reviewed in Le Courier Link

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

Nervous Extensions for Planetary Balance in Nina Sobell’s Collaborative Séances by Cristina Albu, MIT LEONARDO, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 59–65, Feb. 2025 59 (TEXT LINK)

The First Circle Archive: Radical Humanism by Natasha Chuk and Claudia Hart, P.114 -117, published by Politrix Books, First edition August 20th, 2025. “GammaTime” was a performative part of this historical show., 

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, 

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 

https://jura.ku.dk/english/staff/research/?pure=en%2Fpublications%2Fclosed-circuit-videoinstallationen(fe013cb6-036d-47a0-8f76-bf73487ff435).html

"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

2025 “Visualizing the Invisible: Communication as Object in Socially Interactive Technological Art”, Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium, University of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California. Invited by Allen Riley.

2024 Nina Sobell, a Retrospective Presentation, Curated by Katherine Liberovskaya of Experimental Intermedia at the Emily Harvey Foundation, New York. Video

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