NINA WAISMAN, CV
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SELECTED SOLO & GROUP SHOWS
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", group show. Curators: C. Finley, Jeff Foye 2006
Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA "Where 3", group show. Curator: Julio Morales. 2006
Compact Space, Los Angeles, CA "The Dolphins of San Onofre", group show. Curator: Malik Gaines. 2006
Fritz Haeg's Sundown Salon, Los Angeles, CA "Where 2", created a site-specific sound installation in the spiral staircase of Fritz Haeg’s home for his Sundown Salon, group show. Curators: Amy Adler, Zerek Kempf, Shannon Spanhake 2006
Marcuse Gallery, UCSD, San Diego, CA "Displacement 1.2", solo show 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, group show. Curator: CalArts Committee 2005
Millicent Gallery, Los Angeles "Rules Made Broken", 3-person show. Curator: Enrique Castrejon. 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

 
ARTICLES/ INTERVIEWS
2009
Sanroman, Lucia, "Sincerely Yours: Four Collaborations In or About Tijuana", for C_M_L. Ed. Anthony Graves, Carla Herrera-Prats, Lasse Lau, Robert Ochshorn. Sept. 2009. http://c-m-l.org/ and also http://c-m-l.org/?q=node/382

Zepel, Tara & Nina Waisman, Giacomo Castagnola, Camilo Ontiveros and Felipe Zuniga, “CUBO: Interview”, for the catalog for "Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface". Ed. Trish Stone and Tara Zepel. Published by the gallery@calt2, San Diego, CA, 2009. pp. 20-29 and 42-55. Available online: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/tijuanasan-diego-cooperation-and-confrontation-at-the-interface/6006309

Rodeiro, Carla, "Festival internacional de linguagem eletrônica", for Gazeta Television, July, 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU0Je_abR1k&feature=player_embedded

Quiroz Luna, Marcela, "Proyecto Cívico / Civic Project", for LatinArt.com, March, 2009. http://www.latinart.com/exview.cfm?start=1&id=305

2008
Crandall, Jordan & Nina Waisman, “Dialogue Between Jordan Crandall and Nina Waisman”, for Proyecto Civico Project. Ed. Ruth Estévez and Lucía Sanromán. Mexico: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes/ Centro Cultural Tijuana, 2008. 74-81.

Sweetman, Katherine, “Make Some Noise“, San Diego CityBeat, 28 Oct. 2008. http://www.sdcitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/make_some_noise/7428/

Stephens, AnnaMaria, “Messages to the Masses”, San Diego CityBeat, 4 April 2008. http://www.sdcitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/messages_to_the_masses/6804/

Pincus, Robert, “Social Engineering”, SignOnSanDiego, 23 March 2008. Union-Tribune Publishing Co. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080323/news_1a23art.html

Glass, Erin, “Art & Capitalism: ‘Your matter is our market!’”, SignOnSanDiego, 11 March 2008. Union-Tribune Publishing Co. http://www.signonsandiego.com/entertainment/street/2008/03/art_capitalism_your_matter_is.html

Peterson, Christine L., “Artist takes on nanotechnology and privacy”, Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion, 25 Sept. 2007, Foresight Institute. http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2567

2007
Hebert, James, “INTO VIEW: The atomization of Nina Waisman”, SignOnSanDiego, 23 Sept. 2007. Union-Tribune Publishing Co. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070923/news_lz1a23view.html

2005
Heffley, Lynne, “An All Around Soundfest”, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug., 2005. http://articles.latimes.com/2005/aug/19/entertainment/et-sound19

 
PUBLICATIONS/ TALKS/ WORKSHOPS

2009
"Fusing Bodies: A Consideration of Techno-Spliced Gestures in Interactive Installations". Published paper and talk given at the Digital Arts and Culture Conference, UC Irvine, CA.

Interactive Sound Installation Workshop and Artist's talk for Cal Arts, Integrated Media, Graduate program; Cal Arts, Santa Clarita, CA

Artist's Panel, CALIT2, in association with the show "Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface"; UCSD, CA

Interactive Sound Installation Workshop and Artist's talk for SASSAS, Los Angeles, CA

"Somatic Scripts, Transduction Circuits, and Hackable Soft Spots". Essay for Hemispheric institute E-Misferica July. 2009. http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/particle-group-installation?start=1 as part of an online archive of work by particle group here: http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/particle-group-installation

Artist's talk for San Diego State University students; San Diego, CA

Artist's talk for Cal State San Marcos students; Escondido, CA

2008
Artist's Panel, CALIT2, in association with the show "Particles of Interest"; UCSD, CA

Artists’ Panel: Artist’s talk and panel discussion at the San Diego Museum of Art, in association with the Inside the Wave show; Moderator: Betti-Sue Hertz

"Feedback Patterns in Gesture, Rhythm and Thought": 3-hour lecture + artist’s talk for Jane de Almeida’s “Computing in the Arts, Current Practice” course, UCSD

Into the Folds: A small, trans-disciplinary movement+philosophy workshop, invitational; held by the Sense Lab at the Society for Art and Technology, Montreal, Canada. The workshop invited a small international group of philosophers, dancers, choreographers and artists to address recent theory and movement tactics linking mind, body and socio-political space. Participants selected by Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Sher Doruff, Mireille Painchaud and Steve Shaviro.

2007
"The body as transducer; building narratives through gestural and sonic interactivity"; Paper and talk presented at the Audiomostly conference; Fraunhofer-Institut für Digitale Medientechnologie IDMT; Ilmenau, Germany; Conference Organizer: Holger Grossman

"The intersection of dance, performance art and new media"; 3-hour lecture for Ricardo Dominguez’ Performance Art Class, UCSD

2006
Artist’s Talk; Lecture/presentation for Brett Stalbaum’s “Computing in the Arts, Current Practice”, UCSD

Artists’ Panel: Artist’s talk and panel discussion as part of a 5-member panel, in association with the Greater Los Angeles Masters of Fine Art Exhibition, Gatov Gallery, Cal State Long Beach; Curators: C. Finley, Jeff Foye


 
GRANTS/AWARDS
Grant as part of the collective CUBO, to create a new collaborative work for Soundscapes, gallery 727, Los Angeles, 2009

Commission to create Between Bodies, a site-specific installation for the entrance to the new International wing of the CECUT; Tijuana, Mexico. The piece was made for the inaugural show of this new building, 2008

Grants as part of the collective particle group, from the Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, UCSD, DARNET, and CALIT2 for creating and touring the interactive installation, PITMM, 2007-2009

Received travel grant & funding from Audiomostly/Fraunhofer Institute for performance of Cascando, 2007

Travel grant, UCSD, 2007

Russell grant, UCSD, 2007

First prize/research grant from LA Weekly critic Holly Willis for “displacement”, UCSD, 2006

Research grants, UCSD, 2006-2007

Full Scholarship UCSD 2005-2008

Valedictorian, Art Center College of Design, 2004

Dean’s List Art Center 2002-2004

Revson Foundation Grant for painting

Ruben A Brower Prize for Exellence in the Humanities, Harvard University

Harvard College Scholarships, for fours years study

National Merit Scholarship

 
EDUCATION
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

 
COMMERCIAL WORK
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CONTACT
Nina Waisman
info@ninawaisman.net