Artist: Nina Sobell
Nina Sobell is an interdisciplinary artist known for bringing her pioneering integration of technology, performance, and interactivity into contemporary art. Her work has explored concepts of communication and connectivity through cutting-edge technologies like brain-wave monitoring devices (EEG), investigating how technology transforms perception, fosters connection, and reveals hidden aspects of human experience. Thinking of herself as an electronic medium, led Sobell to conceive of groundbreaking BrainWave Drawings, that enabled two participants to see their brainwaves synching in real time as they watched their own images simultaneously on closed-circuit video.
Her work has been exhibited at or is in the collection of: Indexical Gallery, The Menil Drawing Institute, Kunsthalle, Vienna, MoMA Luxembourg, Galerie Mêmoire de L'Avenir, Microscope Gallery, Jane England Gallery, London, DIA, the Whitney, Hammer Museum, LACMA, LAICA, LBMA, CAM Houston, Blanton Museum, MIT, Getty Museum, ZKM, Whitechapel, Zwirner Gallery, WP Phillips Gallery, Louisiana MoMA, Denmark, Kunst Forum, Documenta 6 invited by Joseph Beuys, and Kramlich. She has taught at UCLA, SVA, been an artist-in- Residence at NYU ITP and NYU Center for Advanced Technology, received Arts Council of Great Britain, CAPS, NEA, Turbulence, Jerome Foundation, Franklin Furnace, Acker and NYSCA/ MAAF/ Wave Farm awards; MFACornell University, BFATyler School of Art, Temple University
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GammaTime in (R)VERSE challenges traditional notions of language as created from a very anthropocentric point of view. We reveal the actuality of things as nature does. It's not 'about', but 'is'. For instance, the trees are always communicating, underneath, below the surface of our understanding, and because it's nonverbal, we choose to ignore that. And we think GammaTime in (R)VERSE shows that everything is inherently interconnected. In GammaTime in (R)VERSE, our EEG frequencies modulate and interact with the virtual environment: fluctuations in our temperament are expressed through real-time changes in the color and velocity of sculptural forms that represent each participant, embodying the technology. Everything is always in relation, always in interaction but we but we don't choose to see it. GammaTime in (R)VERSE attempts to reveal this relationship. These NFTs live in GammaTime in (R)VERSE.
Cultivating Thought imagines the brain as a living plant, an outgrowth of nature rather than something separate from it. Thought "speaks" before it fully forms, rooting itself in the body and the earth at the same time. Echoing Frankenstein, where the body becomes a vessel for brain exchange, this work proposes a different mutation: the brain is no longer grafted onto the plant; it is the plant, emerging, curling, and unfurling as an organic mind-form.
As you twist and turn this brain-plant in space, you feed it "food for thought." Each encounter becomes a small act of cultivation, a way of tending to an inner landscape that is both fragile and resilient. This NFT is a digital seed — part sculpture, part speculative anatomy — that grows through attention and memory, carrying traces of each imagined touch.
Cultivating Thought treats cognition as something we grow with the world, not against it: an evolving, shared organism that remembers our curiosity and our desire to imagine new bodies for the mind, new ecologies for thought, and new stories about how consciousness takes root.
This artwork was exhibited in the ▒▒▒dreamRAM▒▒▒::newfangled verses exhibition, from December 5, 2025 through April 30, 2026 at mowna.org. 70% of the sale will pay the artist for their work, with the remaining 30% funding the museum.