Nina Waisman
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 with a BFA in Fine Arts and went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Waisman obtained a Masters of Fine Arts in Visual Arts at University of California, San Diego, where she focused on multimedia as well as new media works. She studied ballet at the New York City Ballet. 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. 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