Cristina Albu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5897527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristina Albu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Albu |
| SIGNATURE | ALBU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cristina Albu, University of Missouri—Kansas City, Department of Media, Art and Design, 204 Fine Arts, 5015 Holmes Street, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA. Email: [email protected]. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nervous Extensions for Planetary Balance in Nina Sobell’s Collaborative Séances
Artist Nina Sobell uses electronic media to unveil the invisible ties between ourselves and others. Addressing the transformative potential of nonverbal communication, the author analyzes Meditations, Memory, Dream, Fantasy and Solar Wind Weaving Sun and Moon, Sharing a Shadow, two collaborative projects created by Sobell in 1999 to inspire collective acts of imagination. Merging images of brainwave oscillations with video feedback and automatic …
Becoming (Un)Masked
Displayed in a Kansas City neighborhood with a history of blockbusting, Nick Cave’s 14-channel video installation Hy-Dyve confronted viewers with a visceral sense of entrapment in traumatizing spaces of racism. The immersive environment portrayed deeply moving experiences of confinement and concealment, connecting narratives of the Middle Passage to present fears of racial profiling. Shown at different scales on the dilapidated walls of a deconse…
Intimate Connections
Through her versatile use of video technology, Nina Sobell explores nonverbal means of communication that interfere with normative modes of behavior and closely regulated interpersonal relationships. Deeply informed by the pursuit of intimate connections, her practice fosters reflection on how we modulate our sense of selfhood through interactions with others. This article examines Sobell’s video performances with chicken carcasses, instantiating…
Modeling the Psyche
Research Article| May 01 2017 Modeling the Psyche: Nene Humphrey’s Multisensory Enactment of Empathetic Entanglement Cristina Albu Cristina Albu CRISTINA ALBU is an assistant professor of art history and theory at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is the author of Mirror Affect: Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art (2016). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2017) 44 (6): 15…
Intimate Connections
Through her versatile use of video technology, Nina Sobell explores nonverbal means of communication that interfere with normative modes of behavior and closely regulated interpersonal relationships. Deeply informed by the pursuit of intimate connections, her practice fosters reflection on how we modulate our sense of selfhood through interactions with others. This article examines Sobell’s video performances with chicken carcasses, instantiating…
Modeling the Psyche
Research Article| May 01 2017 Modeling the Psyche: Nene Humphrey’s Multisensory Enactment of Empathetic Entanglement Cristina Albu Cristina Albu CRISTINA ALBU is an assistant professor of art history and theory at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is the author of Mirror Affect: Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art (2016). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2017) 44 (6): 15…
Intimate Connections
Through her versatile use of video technology, Nina Sobell explores nonverbal means of communication that interfere with normative modes of behavior and closely regulated interpersonal relationships. Deeply informed by the pursuit of intimate connections, her practice fosters reflection on how we modulate our sense of selfhood through interactions with others. This article examines Sobell’s video performances with chicken carcasses, instantiating…
Becoming (Un)Masked
Displayed in a Kansas City neighborhood with a history of blockbusting, Nick Cave’s 14-channel video installation Hy-Dyve confronted viewers with a visceral sense of entrapment in traumatizing spaces of racism. The immersive environment portrayed deeply moving experiences of confinement and concealment, connecting narratives of the Middle Passage to present fears of racial profiling. Shown at different scales on the dilapidated walls of a deconse…
Nervous Extensions for Planetary Balance in Nina Sobell’s Collaborative Séances
Artist Nina Sobell uses electronic media to unveil the invisible ties between ourselves and others. Addressing the transformative potential of nonverbal communication, the author analyzes Meditations, Memory, Dream, Fantasy and Solar Wind Weaving Sun and Moon, Sharing a Shadow, two collaborative projects created by Sobell in 1999 to inspire collective acts of imagination. Merging images of brainwave oscillations with video feedback and automatic …
Art (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Visual Culture and Art Theory (2 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Balance (ability) (1 works) · Citation (1 works)