**H-I-T** Exhibition Nina Sobell Gallery Area 53 Vienna

[Evelin Stermitz]

Invitation to the Exhibition

NINA SOBELL

Gallery AREA 53
Gumpendorferstrasse 53
A-1060 Vienna
http://www.area53.name
Art project AREA 53 by TWO PEOPLE ONE WORK
Karin Sulimma and Mounty R. P. Zentara

Opening reception: Tuesday, July 8 2008, at 7 pm
Exhibition on View: July 9 - August 1, 2008
Viewing Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 3.00 pm - 6.30 pm, Saturday by appointment

Artist Talk to be announced.

Curated by Evelin Stermitz

The exhibition shows video works by the artist Nina Sobell in an
inter-relative performative context. During the exhibition Nina Sobell
creates a sculptural installation in an open atelier space as an
in-gallery project.

Nina 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.
Sobell presented Brainwave Drawings and Videophone Voyeur (1977) at
Joseph Beuys' Free International University at Documenta 6. She
received awards from the NEA and NYSCA for her pioneering video
performance art in the 1970's. Her work has been shown throughout the
US, Europe, and Japan. An award-winning printmaker and figurative
sculptor, and avid improvisational guitarist and keyboardist, she can
be seen sculpting Emily in the ParkBench Performance Archives and
heard playing music there as well.
During the years 2007 - 2008 Nina Sobell is Artist in Residence at
Location One in New York, supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for
the Visual Arts. Her works are included in the exhibition
California Video at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2008.

"Working with time, perception, exploring cognitive theories as art,
led me further into the non-static world of video. At this point, I
needed to retreat into an intimate personal dialogue, making sculpture
for video camera space only, compressing time and private experience."
- Nina Sobell

As a New York-based artist, Nina Sobell has produced a broad body of
work embracing various themes, strategies, and mediums, including
video, performance, installation, sculpture and live TV. A participant
in the feminist performance movement of the 1970s, her conceptually
based work ranges from taboo performances and museum installations to
interactive video matrixes for public participation. Sobell began
using video in the 1970s as a way to study spectators' interactions
with her sculptures, which were placed anonymously in public areas.
Exploring video-sculpture, Sobell was intrigued with creating
psycho-social transformations via video technology, making
environments and mobile structures to physically engage the viewer.
Pursuing video's relation to the subconscious led Sobell to her
well-known Brainwave Drawing piece, in which a screen monitor
registered the brainwaves of two people and their silent attempt to
communicate with each other.

Nina Sobell discovered that the very presence of technology alters
peoples' behavior, due to its capacity to mediate experience, to
manipulate space and time, and due also to peoples' belief in its
power. She has used these phenomena to sculpt social space. In other
words, she has used technology as a prop to give participants
permission to overcome various types of boundaries -- physical and
social -- to communicate with one another.

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