Nina Sobell combines sculpture and video in her work. Born in Patchogue, USA, in 1947, the media artist studied at the Taylor School of Art in Philadelphia and at Cornell University in Ithaca. Today, she is regarded as the founder of the artistic use of video and computers.
The starting point for her involvement with new media was her attempt in 1969 to record the interaction between sculpture and viewer – a classic museum situation – and to explore it in moving images. In doing so, she discovered the manifold possibilities of varying the relationship between space and time as an experiential media event.
Nina Sobell lives and works in New York.
