Nina Sobell presents the artist-in-studio as spectacle, allowing the audience to share the private rituals of the art making process. She will install her Location One artist residency studio in the Location One Project Space. The installation includes recent wax sculptures, molds-in-the-making and drawings that share space with musical instruments.

Visitors to the gallery will be able to engage in a dialog with the artist about her work, and may also bring their own instruments for improvisational jams on CamJam, the 24/7 webcast of the installation at http://www.location1.org/nina-sobell

Sobell pioneered the use of video, computers, and interactivity in art, as well as performance on the Web. Since 1969, when she first used video to document participants’ undirected interactions with her sculptures, she investigates the extent to which video enables her to manipulate the relation between time and space, and to create a vortex for human experience, in which the mediated event coincides with public experience, memory, and relationships. Groundbreaking projects include ParkBench and VirtuAlice, and the ongoing Interactive Encephalographic Brainwave Drawings.

Nina’s work has been shown throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. An award-winning printmaker and figurative sculptor, an avid improvisational guitarist and keyboardist, she can be seen sculpting Emily in the ParkBench Performance Archives and heard playing music there as well.

Nina Sobell’s residency at Location One is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.