Scott 'Sona' Snibbe



 SCOTT ‘SONA’ SNIBE 

Scott ‘Sona’ Snibe, born in New York City, 1969. Snibe is an interactive media artist, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. Whether on mobile devices or in public spaces, his work spurs people to participate communally, expressively, and physically. His creations are strongly influenced by cinema: mainly animation and surrealist film; and often mix live and filmed performances with real-time interaction. Snibbe’s artwork is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) and The Museum of Modern Art (New York); and has been shown in several hundred solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including a solo retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. His large-scale interactive projects have been incorporated into concert tours, Olympics, science museums, airports, and other major public spaces and events, and he has collaborated on interactive projects with musicians and filmmakers including Björk and James Cameron. Snibe is one of the first artists to work with projector-based interactivity, where a computer-controlled projection onto a wall or floor changes in response to people moving across its surface, with his well-known full-body interactive work BoundaryFunctions (1998), premiering at Ars Electronica 1998.

 WORKS 

Snibbe’s recent creation, some of the first interactive art apps foriOS devices (iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch). His first, three apps: Gravilux, Bubble Harp, and Antograph. Released in May, 2010 as ports of screen-based artwork from the 1990s Dynamic Systems Series, all rose into the top ten in the iTunes Store's Entertainment section, and have been downloaded over 400,000 times. Snibbe collaborated with Björk to produce Biophilia, the first full-length app album, which was released for iPad and iPhone in 2011.

1. You Are Here
It is a track and displays installation. It trails and shows the paths of people traveling through a large public space. The computer–controlled projector displays amassed paths of the last few hundred visitors overlapped with blobs demonstrating the people currently being traced. The visitor may gain access of the cameras above the projection zone.



2. Women Hold up Half the Sky
It is a permanent installation in the lobby of the Mills College Life Sciences Building in Oakland, California. This video artwork celebrates the contributions of women in science from ancient to modern times. On two large projections, animations retell the history of women in science, commencing with Hypatia, the Egyptian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist born in the fourth century. The installation shows stylized views of the women at work in their laboratories, and montages of the women’s’ discoveries.



3. Transit
A large-scale video installation at Los Angeles International Airport’s Tom Bradley International Terminal, consists of fifty-eight monitors curving about the arrivals waiting area. The fifteen-minute video features hundreds of pedestrians in silhouette who take part in a loose narrative grounded in their ceaseless movements left to right. Against the background, travellers occasionally put down their bags and break into exuberant dance routines in styles.



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