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.
