Who is Nadav Assor?

Nadav teaches Wired on Mondays at 9:00-10:30am, and 10:45am-12:15pm. He has recently graduated from SAIC’s MFA program in the Art & Technology department. Nadav came to Chicago from Tel Aviv, Israel, where he has been a practicing cross-disciplinary artist for several years. Nadav has performed and exhibited in a wide variety of venues- museums, galleries, nightclubs, concert halls, music and film festivals and outdoors public spaces; he has also collaborated with all sorts of artists from many disciplines. During the last few years his work was shown in Berlin, Bologna, China, Chicago and Israel. Nadav’s studio practice deals with providing a humanized, fragmented, intensely personal perspective on daily life surroundings as mediated through technology. Mediated images (of architecture, people, objects) are treated as sculptural material, physical and organic materials are transformed in a combination of absurdity and violence. Stories are told. Fun!

Some of Nadav’s work may be seen on his website: http://www.nadassor.net

Nadav enjoys and values teaching as a creative discipline – prior to coming to SAIC, he has designed and taught several courses on live performance and installation using electronic media, as well as more technically intensive workshops on the use of Max/MSP/Jitter as a visual programming environment for practicing fine artists from the fields of sculpture, video and sound. Sometime in the ancient history of the World Wide Web, he was also a web designer. A random assortment of links of interest to him may be found via his del.icio.us page.