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Nina A. Waisman is an American new media artist who works with sculpture, sound, architecture, and performance.


Education

Nina Waisman graduated from
Art Center College of Design The ArtCenter College of Design is a private art college in Pasadena, California. It was incorporated in 1930 as a degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both the visual arts and design. ...
with a BFA in
Fine Arts In European academic traditions, fine art (or, fine arts) is made primarily for aesthetics or creativity, creative expression, distinguishing it from popular art, decorative art or applied art, which also either serve some practical function ...
(retrieved 10/02/2013) and went on to receive a
Bachelor of Arts A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...
in Visual and Environmental Studies at
Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
. Waisman obtained a
Masters of Fine Arts A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admin ...
in
Visual Arts The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual a ...
at
University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Es ...
, where she focused on
multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as Text (literary theory), writing, Sound, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single presentation. T ...
as well as new media works. She studied ballet at the
New York City Ballet New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's fir ...
.


Career

Nina Waisman is notable for interactive sculptures that include sound and performance such as ''Body Envelope'', in 2012, a series of performances that involves instruments and the human body. Sounds from far-flung places are projected through instruments to the visitor's peripersonal space through motion detecting sensors.zero1biennial.org She also uses motion detectors to promote audience participation in her performances in ''Space Shifter'' which is composed of twelve sensory cables that bend in the form of a portal and are suspended against a wall. As visitors move their bodies within the portal of sensors, sound is emitted. The pitch, speed, volume, and quality of the sound changes according to the visitor's physical proximity to the sensors. Nina Waisman pulls many of her soundscapes from
Tijuana, Mexico Tijuana is the most populous city of the Mexican state of Baja California, located on the northwestern Pacific Coast of Mexico. Tijuana is the municipal seat of the Tijuana Municipality, the hub of the Tijuana metropolitan area and the most popu ...
.Nina Waisman's website
(retrieved 10/05/2013)
In ''MediaWomb'', Waisman uses recycled cardboard in the form of egg cartons to create an encasing womblike sculpture; one side of the sculpture emits local soundscapes of Tijuana while the other side emits global soundscapes of the media. Within the sculpture, visitors sits at opposite sides facing each other. Depending on the side the visitor is sitting on, they experience the sculpture differently. Visitor interaction is also apparent in her earlier work ''Between Bodies'' in 2008. It's an interactive sound and sculpture installation that brings the busy atmosphere of Tijuana to the visitors through speakers. As visitors move through the hall way filled with these instruments, they are transported metaphysically to Tijuana. The sounds range from the noises in the streets created by cars to local human activity.Felipe Zunig
Between Bodies. The Bodily Sounds by Nina Waisman
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List of recent group shows

*''Zero1 Biennial'' 2012 *''ISEA'' 2012 *''Play With Me'' 2012 *''Mediated Motion'' 2011


Grants

Nina Waisman has received numerous awards and grants throughout her career. The most notable grants are from the
Montalvo Arts Center The Montalvo Arts Center is a non-profit center for the arts in Saratoga, California, United States. Open to the public, Montalvo comprises a cultural and arts center, a park, hiking trails and the historic Villa Montalvo, an Italian Mediterran ...
for a visual arts fellowship in 2013,
La MaMa La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (sometimes abbreviated as La MaMa E.T.C.) is an Off-Off-Broadway theater founded in 1961 by African-American theatre director, producer, and fashion designer Ellen Stewart. Located in the East Village neighborho ...
for her ''Rhythm Machine'' 2011, and OCMA for her ''Between Bodies'' in
Cecut The Tijuana Cultural Center (CECUT) is a cultural center in the Zona Río district of Tijuana, Mexico. The center opened 20 October 1982, and accommodates more than a million visitors per year. Nowadays this iconic Tijuana institution has differen ...
2010.


References


Further reading

* Nina Waisman's website * Katherine Sweetman
''Make Some Noise''
* James Heber

* Ruth Estévez, Lucia Sanromán, ed.: ''Proyecto Cívico = CIVIC Project.'' Artists: Gabriel Acevedo V., Francis Alÿs, Shoja Azari, Guy Ben-Ner, Andrea Bowers, Mircea Cantor, Raúl Cárdenas-Torolab, Fabián Cereijido, Sergio de la Torre, Sam Durant, Ingrid Hernández, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Bas Princen, Marcos Ramirez Erre, Javier Ramirez Limon, Daniel Ruanova, Yvonne Venegas, Nina Waisman. Tijuana, México. Centro Cultural Tijuana, CECUT; Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, October 2008 - February 2009


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Waisman, Nina ArtCenter College of Design alumni American new media artists University of California, San Diego alumni Harvard College alumni