Nina Sobell
NYC, USA
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13 recordings / 59 times speaking / 25 mentions / 3 exhibitions
About this artist
Nina Sobell (born 1947, Patchogue, New York) is a contemporary sculptor, digital artist, videographer, and performance artist. She began creating web-based net artworks in the early 1990s.
Source: Wikipedia, “Nina Sobell”, text available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Retrieved 24 September 2026.
Exhibitions and collaborations
- Watch on YouTube58:15
- Techspressionism: Digital & Beyond (Southampton Arts Center)Watch on YouTube46:13
Nina Sobell, Persistent Visions , 2022. Digital video, 1280 × 720 pixels. Duration: 3:00. Edition of 3, number 1.
Nina Sobell, Aleph-Null , 2018, digital print, 42” x 42”, Edition 3, Number 2,
Nina Sobell, Glyphs , 2018, digital print, 42” x 42”, Edition 3, Number 1,
Exhibition artist profile ↗
From the exhibition pages on techspressionism.com. "Watch on YouTube" opens the exhibition reel at this artist's entry (a separate video from the archive recordings, so it opens on YouTube itself).
Speaking in the archive
- Salon 109 · August 6, 2026WATCH1:03:40
Open Mic: August 2026 · spoke 7 times
“I just wanted to say thank you, Tommy, for featuring my work.” - Presentation 3 · May 2, 2026WATCH11:46
Collaborations Between Artists and Scientists · spoke 1 time
“The Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia as well as in Rome, Italy. She studied sculpture at Cornell University where she received a Master of Fine Arts and began working as an interactive artist in 1967.” - Salon 99 · October 2, 2025WATCH1:43:07
Floating Questions 🎈 · spoke 2 times
“Thank you so much, everyone. Thank you, Erin, very much.”
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- Salon 96 · July 3, 2025WATCH1:27:14
Open Studios · spoke 1 time
“I'd like to add something I forgot to unmute. That was a suggestion of not only Joey Zaza, but his collaboration with Carrie Ann Shimshan as a close, close collaborator in that coding A couple.” - WATCH29:19
- WATCH07:20
- WATCH1:47:02
- Interview 26 · March 2023WATCH02:12
Nina Sobell · spoke 15 times
“I was born in Patchogue, Long Island. And I live in this city. I live in New York City, and I live upstate near Millbrook.” - Salon 53 · September 28, 2022WATCH59:06
Photography and Media Confluence · spoke 2 times
“Okay. The Confluence of Photography with Digital Media and an Investigation into the Creative Process.” - Salon 47 · July 6, 2022WATCH1:15:53
Materiality · spoke 3 times
“I think it's the human need for tactility. For touch. That's why pets became so popular during the pandemic.” - WATCH00:59
- Salon 42 · April 27, 2022WATCH1:10:34
Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond, International Reception · spoke 2 times
“Hi. I'll just read. Hi, Roz. Hi. Hi. I'll just read what it says. Persistent vision is expressionistically submerged, emerged, and then the real world.” - Salon 33 · December 21, 2021WATCH1:03:15
David Bloom, Lindsay Kokoska, Nina Sobell · spoke 1 time
“Thank you. All right. And now, last but definitely not least, Nina. Are you ready to present?”
Newest first. WATCH opens that recording here in the archive, at the turn quoted.
Mentioned by others
- “So, also, Nina Sobell was…”WATCH42:02
Sahar Moussavi · Salon 110 · September 3, 2026 - “I recommend looking at his work, and Nina Sobell, are you on, Nina?”WATCH45:02
Tommy Mintz · Salon 109 · August 6, 2026 - “Our next artist is Nina Sobell who lives in New York City.”WATCH11:45
Karen LaFleur · Presentation 3 · May 2, 2026
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- “Nina Sobell who translates brain activity into performance, and Cynthia Beth Rubin, who is a digital painter of the micro and macroscopic.”WATCH00:57
Lee Day · Presentation 3 · May 2, 2026 - “I am joined by artists Karen LaFleur, Nina Sobell, and Cynthia Beth Rubin.”WATCH00:06
Lee Day · Presentation 3 · May 2, 2026 - “Please give it up for Nina Sobell.”WATCH10:18
Erin Ko · Salon 105 · April 2, 2026 - “Nina Sobell began exploring interactivity with throwable foam sculptures in 1967, and the many facets of collaboration in 1969.”WATCH09:37
Erin Ko · Salon 105 · April 2, 2026 - “I would love to start with our first guest, Nina Sobell.”WATCH09:16
Erin Ko · Salon 105 · April 2, 2026 - “And, like, all you guys know each other, and there's this whole, sort of, network of people, like Nina Sobell, or, Cynthia Beth Rubin, you know, like, or Ants Fault, or, like, all you guys, sort of, like…”WATCH52:34
Colin Goldberg · Interview 29 · December 8, 2025 - “This came in from Nina Sobell, which is for the art…”WATCH1:07:40
Colin Goldberg · Salon 101 · December 5, 2025 - “an open call that I got from Nina Sobell, and then I'll just share a couple things that I've been working on, too, since we're at the end of our lineup here for scheduled artists.”WATCH1:07:15
Colin Goldberg · Salon 101 · December 5, 2025 - “That is the wonderful Nina Sobell.”WATCH17:38
Tommy Mintz · Salon 94 · May 1, 2025 - “I came across another lecture with Nina Sobell.”WATCH42:35
Victor Acevedo · Salon 91 · February 6, 2025 - “We have Nina Sobell in the right column.”WATCH42:08
Victor Acevedo · Salon 91 · February 6, 2025 - “Next up is Nina Sobell.”WATCH48:22
Michael Pierre Price · Salon 90 · January 2, 2025 - “I interviewed Nina Sobell.”WATCH1:31:12
Renata Janiszewska · Salon 78 · January 4, 2024 - “I'm speaking this evening with a very distinguished pioneer of digital art, Nina Sobell, who's talking to me from her New York City studio.”WATCH00:10
Renata Janiszewska · Interview 26 · March 2023 - “Miller, aka DJ Spooky, Steve Miller, Joseph Nechvatal, Michael Rees, Christine Schooley, Nina Sobell, Anne Spalter, and Nina Yankowitz.”WATCH06:10
Colin Goldberg · Roundtable 1 · October 3, 2022 - “Finally, sorry not finally, I have a recorded presentation from Nina Sobell so I'm going to share my screen.”WATCH58:11
Renata Janiszewska · Salon 53 · September 28, 2022 - “Next, we're going to go on to Nina Sobell.”WATCH13:20
Roz Dimon · Salon 43 · May 11, 2022 - “Thank you Nina Sobell.”WATCH03:42
Roz Dimon · Salon 43 · May 11, 2022 - “Nina Sobell.”WATCH1:35:53
Roz Dimon · Salon 42 · April 27, 2022 - “Nina Sobell, our co-host.”WATCH1:10:19
Colin Goldberg · Salon 42 · April 27, 2022 - “… Janice Randenburg-Lee, TinTan23x, Jan Swinburne, Frédéric Pons, Diana Diavola, Lee Day, Susan Wong, Nina Sobell, Dana Jones, N3T4, Seungjin Lee, Cynthia DiDonato, Reese Schroeder, Sarah Song, and Andy Wauman, and Colin …”WATCH1:03:14
Roz Dimon · Salon 42 · April 27, 2022 - “I wasn't actually in the show but I did attend it was called code okay and it was a group show it had Nina Sobell and it had char davies who was doing a vr piece it was really advanced for its time she worked at soft image …”WATCH1:25:00
Victor Acevedo · Interview 21 · January 7, 2022
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