NINA
WAISMAN, Bio and CV
This page gets behind but the attached pdf version is updated more often... BIO As a former dancer turned installation artist, Nina Waisman is fascinated by the critical roles that movement and sensation play in forming thought. Her interactive sound installations, videos and collaborative performances highlight the subliminal training and possible hacking of embodied thinking. These works focus on related issues including surveillance, invisible labor, border control, machine-human feedback loops, nanotechnology. Venues include House of World Cultures, Berlin; LAXART; CECUT, Tijuana; OCMA; Beall Center; Zero1 2012. After a year as an artist in residence at SETI Institute, Waisman is launching a series of collaborative artworks exploring the role of embodiment in forming non-human intelligences, including microbial and extraterrestrial intelligences. With support from 18th Street Arts, Lucas Artists’ Residency and the Hammer Museum, works will be presented starting in 2017. SELECTED SOLO & GROUP SHOWS |
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Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California. | The Laboratory for Embodied Intelligences; Through playful meditations and movement exercises, LEI will use the Hammer’s stage and courtyard to offer workshop members and drop-in participants access to the vast treasure of behaviors and communication techniques invented and enacted by microbes. Developed by Nina Waisman and Flora Wiegmann, the Hammer LEI experiments aim to make physically palpable our discoveries around the following questions: How can humans “try on” non-human behaviors in order to perceive them viscerally, gaining knowledge unavailable through classic data analysis? What can we learn from the highly successful behaviors and communication methods our microbial colleagues and ancestors employ? Future performances and happenings will be built from these workshops. Curator: January Parkos Arnall | 2016-2017 |
Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, California. | Sur: Biennial; Interactive Sound Installation, in collaboration with CUBO (Jennifer Donovan, Gabriela Torres Olivares, Nina Waisman and Flora Wiegmann, with pd programming by Marius Schebella). group show, a selection of So-cal Collectives. Curator: James MacDevitt | 2015 |
Beall Center for Arti and Technology, Irvine, California. | Play: In Three Acts; Rotating, site-specific versions of Body Envelope, an interactive sound installation for the public w/addtional dance performances. opens 2/7/2015 | 2015 |
LAXart Gala at the Greystone, Los Angeles, California | Till you Drop...; Interactive sound installation commissioned by LAXART, for the public w/addtional dance performances, collaboratively created by Thomas Lawson, Nina Waisman and Flora Wiegmann. | 2014 |
Casa Vecine, Mexico City, Mexico | Radiales: Situaciones Experimentales de Escucha; Commission to create an interactive sound installation for the public, by virtue of leading a collaborative workshop with local artists and non-artists. Collaborators: Antonio Aldana, Gerardo Barrera, Melissa Cisneros, Armando Alejandro Florero, Felipe Zuñiga Gonzalez, Alan Rabchinsky, Tayde Subeldía and Nina Waisman | 2014 |
Experimental Drawing Studio Gallery, Structural and Materials Engineering Bldg, UCSD, San Diego, California | *Body Envelope; Exhibition as Artist-in-Residence for UCSD’s Experimental Drawing Studio, created a site- specific version of this interactive sound installation. | 2014 |
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY | Intimate Cosmologies: The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial exhibition of new work by Kimsooja, *particle group* collective (Ricardo Dominguez, Diane Ludin, Amy Sara Carroll and Nina Walsman), Rafael-Lozano-Hemmer, Paul Thomas and research projects by Cornell faculty researchers, designers, architects and students. | 2014 |
The New Children's Museum San Diego, California | Orange we...; Interactive Installation commissioned by The New Children's Museum for FEAST! This piece will bekept beyond the original 1 year planned for the show. | 2013/16 |
Viralnet Online |
Future-Why?; Text piece for Viralnet.net's online project. | 2013/14 |
Center for the Living Arts Mobile, Alabama |
The Futures Project; Interactive Installation | 2013/14 |
Montalvo Art Center’s Historic Villa, Saratoga, California | Zero1 Biennial; Interactive Installation and Performances w/collaborators tba, as part of Zero1’s 9 Evenings Performance Series. November 2012. | 2012 |
Various sites in Albuquerque, New Mexico | ISEA 2012; Residency at the Albuquerque Academy and an Interactive sound installation as part of ISEA’s Main Exhibtion. | 2012 |
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California | Play With Me; Interactive sound installation, group show with Alberto Baraya (Colombia) Franklin Cassaro (Brazil) Cubo (Mexico/USA, Giacomo Castagnola, Camilo Ontiveros, Felipe Zúñiga, Nina Waisman) Dream Addictive (Mexico) Darío Escobar (Guatemala) Federico Herrero (Costa Rica) Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Mexico) Antonio Manuel (Brazil) Ernesto Neto (Brazil) Rubén Ortiz-Torres (Mexico) Pedro Reyes (Mexico) Sofía Táboas (Mexico) | 2012 |
LaMama Galleria New York, NY |
Mediated Motion; Interactive Sound Installation, group show. Curators: culturehub, Billy Clark, Lindsey Madeiros. | 2011 |
995-7 North Hill Street, Chinatown/Los Angeles, CA | Collective Show: Los Angeles; Interactive Sound Installation, in collaboration with CUBO (Jennifer Donovan, Gabriela Torres Olivares, Nina Waisman and Flora Wiegmann, with pd programming by Marius Schebella). group show, a selection of So-cal Collectives. Curators: Eric Kim, Patrick Meagher, Yunhee Min. | 2011 |
Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CA | California Biennial; Interactive sound installation, group show; Curator: Sarah Bancroft. | 2010 |
Luxe/Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, NY | Sites of Memory: Architecture and Remembering; Interactive sound installation, group show; Curators: William Stover & Stephan Stoyanov. | 2010 |
Luxe/Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, NY | Phantoms Too; Interactive sound installation, group show; Curator: Stephan Stoyanov. | 2010 |
gallery@calit2, Atkinson Hall, UCSD, San Diego, California | Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface, Interactive Sound Installation, in collaboration with CUBO (Giacomo Castagnola, Camilo Ontiveros, Nina Waisman, Felipe Zuniga, with pd programming by Marius Schebella).group show, October-November, 2009. | 2009 |
SESI Avenida Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil | FILE 2009, Interactive Sound Installation, group show, July 2009. Curators: Paula Perissinotto et al. | 2009 |
Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil | PDCON 2009, Interactive Sound Installation, group show, July 2009. Curators: Alexandre Torres Porres et al. | 2009 |
Online/Mexico | Interactiva_09 Festival, Interactive Sound Installation, as part of a multi-media collaboration with Particle Group (Ricardo Dominguez, Diane Ludin, Nina Waisman, Amy Sara Carroll & Marius Schebella). | 2009 |
g727, Los Angeles, CA | Soundscapes, Interactive Sound Installation, in collaboration with CUBO (Giacomo Castagnola, Camilo Ontiveros, Nina Waisman, Felipe Zuniga, with pd programming by Marius Schebella). group show with Ari Kletzky, Sarah Roberts and Gerhard Schultz; Elana Mann; Carla Herrera-Prats; and Christina Ulke with Sara Harris. Curator Tiffany Barber. | 2009 |
The Museum at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA | Between, solo show | 2009 |
Grand Hall of Science, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA | Scalable Relations, Interactive Sound Installation, as part of a multi-media collaboration with Particle Group (Ricardo Dominguez, Diane Ludin, Nina Waisman, Amy Sara Carroll & Marius Schebella). group show. Curator: Christiane Paul. | 2009 |
Visual Arts Courtyard, UCSD, San Diego, CA | Something is Happening, Peformance of Training at sunset, group show. Curator: Jordan Crandall. | 2008 |
CECUT/El Cubo International Gallery, Tijuana, Mexico | Civic Project/ Proyecto Civico, group show with Gabriel Acevedo Velarde, Francis Alÿs, Shoja Azari, Guy Ben-Ner, Andrea Bowers, Mircea Cantor, Raúl Cárdenas/Torolab, Fabián Cereijido, Sam Durant, Sergio de la Torre, Ingrid Hernández, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Bas Princen, Marcos Ramírez ERRE, Javier Ramírez Limón, Daniel Ruanova, Yvonne Venegas, Nina Waisman; interactive installation for the main entrance to El Cubo, the new international wing of the CECUT. Curators: Lucía Sanromán and Ruth Estévez. | 2008 2009 |
Online | The Lament Project, group show. Curators: Cindy Bernard, Kathy Brew, Tom Leeser, Beth Rosenberg, Martha Wilson. | 2008 |
gallery@calit2, Atkinson Hall, UCSD, San Diego, California | Particles of Interest, Interactive Sound Installation, as part of a multi-media collaboration with Particle Group (Ricardo Dominguez, Diane Ludin, Nina Waisman, Amy Sara Carroll & Marius Schebella) | 2008 |
University Gallery, UCSD, San Diego, CA | MFA 2008, group show | 2008 |
haudenschildGarage, La Jolla, CA | Travelog, part of MOCA's "Allan Kaprow: Art as Life" cycle of happenings. Concept: Steve Fagin; Curator: Lucia Sanroman. | 2008 |
The Museum of Arts & Crafts-ITAMI, Japan; 2B Gallery Budapest, Hungary; GALÉRIA Z, Bratislava, Slovakia | Your Documents Please, group show. Curators: Daniel Georges and Rumiko Tsuda. | 2008 2009 |
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California | Inside the Wave, group show, Interactive Sound Installation, as part of a multi-media collaboration with Particle Group (Ricardo Dominguez, Diane Ludin, Nina Waisman, Amy Sara Carroll & Marius Schebella). Curator: Betti-Sue Hertz. | 2008 |
Telic Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | "Showing", site-specific performance October 20, 3pm, group show. Curator: Jordan Crandall. | 2007 |
The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany | "nomadic new york" performance program in "New York", collaboration with Ricardo Dominguez, Diane Ludin, & Tristan Shone, group show. Curator: André Lepecki. | 2007 |
Fraunhofer-Institut für Digitale Medientechnologie IDMT, Ilmenau, Germany | "Cascando", interactive improvisational performance (using body-mounted sensors) of Samuel Beckett's radioplay, in collaboration with the musician, Philipp Danzeisen. Curator: Holger Grossman | 2007 |
C1D Gallery, Long Beach, CA | "Soundwalk 2007", group show. Curators: Kamran Assadi, Shea M Gauer, Frauke von der Horst, Scott A Peterson, Shelley RuggThorp and Marco Schindelmann. | 2007 |
Art Academy of San Diego, San Diego, CA | "New Contemporaries":San Diego Art Prize Show, group show, nominated by Derrick R. Cartwright, Executive Director of the San Diego Museum of Art. | 2007 |
LACE (Los Angleles Contemporary Exhibits), Los Angeles, CA | "Origin is the Goal", group show. Curator: Darin Klein | 2007 |
Gatov Gallery, Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA | "Greater
Los Angeles Masters of Fine Art Exhibition", |
2006 |
Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA | "Where
3", |
2006 |
Compact Space, Los Angeles, CA | "The
Dolphins of San Onofre", |
2006 |
Fritz Haeg's Sundown Salon, Los Angeles, CA | "Where
2", |
2006 |
Marcuse Gallery, UCSD, San Diego, CA | "Displacement
1.2", |
2006 |
Koos Gallery, Long Beach, CA | Soundwalk 2005, group show. Curators: Kamran Assadi, Shea M Gauer, Frauke von der Horst, Scott A Peterson. | 2005 |
RedCat Gallery, Los Angeles | CEAIT
Festival, |
2005 |
Millicent Gallery, Los Angeles |
"Rules Made
Broken", |
2004 |
Grey Matters Gallery, Dallas, TX | "Character by Design", group show. Curator: Jason Cohen. | 2004 |
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA | "Around",
"Quinine",
solo shows "Freetime", "Buddy" (interactive version), "Interactive Paintings" solo shows; various group shows |
2004 2003 |
EyeBeam Atelier, NYC | "Art Heals", NYC 9-11 Fund Auction, group show, NYC. Curator: Andrew Mer. | 2002 |
SELECTED GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS |
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SETI Institute Artist In Residence (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), 2015-2016 |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/
TALKS/ TEACHING |
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2015 |
SELECTED ARTICLES/ INTERVIEWS (needs updating!!) |
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2014 |
EDUCATION |
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UCSD,
MFA in Visual Arts, 2008 Art Center College of Design, B.F.A. in fine arts, valedictorian Harvard University, B.A. in Visual & Environmental Studies, magna cum laude Universite de Paris lll, exchange program Trained at the New York City Ballet, School of American Ballet |
CONTACT |
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Nina
Waisman
info@ninawaisman.net |