New York-based artist Nina Sobell presents GammaTime in collaboration with Ed Bear, a real-time participatory brainwave drawing performance. GammaTime aims to create a foundation for understanding and experiencing gamma brain waves as well as other brain waves through art and music. By engaging with the installation, participants will not only gain insights into their own brain wave activity and each others, but also experience the potential cognitive and emotional benefits of 40 Hz gamma stimulation. The project seeks to inspire, educate and provide a platform for creative exploration, ultimately contributing to the broader discourse on the intersection of art and neuroscience.

New York-based artist Nina Sobell, who since 1969 is active internationally working with videos exploring neuroscience, computers, memory, human relationships, communication, public interactivity, sculpture and pioneering internet performance art actions. Her work is in the collection of or has been shown at the Getty Museum; Hammer Museum; de Saisset Museum; the Whitney Museum, MUDAM, Luxembourg; Kunsthalle, Vienna; Banff Centre for the Arts; Manchester Gallery, England; Acme Gallery Archives in Whitechapel Gallery, London; The Blanton Museum, Austin; CAM, Houston; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee, La Biennale di Venezia; ICA London; DIA Foundation; Cornell University and many other institutions; the Kramlich, Reynolds, RJFleck, Gunther Brodar, Leo Kuelbs Foundation and other private collections. MLC Gallery, Media Burn and Video Data Bank represent her work. 

Oddly Satisfying presents a series of audiovisual and performance works by artists who work with video as a physical material. “Oddly satisfying” is a label given to viral looping videos that somehow feel tangible to the viewer, eliciting haptic sensory perception that absorbs perception into the screen. The artists presented in this series recognize that physical participation is the basic condition of experiencing media and they respond by instead calling attention to embodied perception.

Curated by Allen Riley, 2025 Curator-in-Residence