EDUCATION
2000 MFA. The California Institute of the Arts, School of Art, Photography
1993 B.Education. The University of Alberta, Secondary Education with Distinction
1991 B.Science The University of Alberta, Genetics with First Class Honors
EMPLOYMENT
2010-2011 Instructor, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, AB
2008 - 2010 Independent Artist & Educator
2001 – 2008 Assistant Professor, Art History, Visual Art & Theory, The University of British Columbia
2000 – 2001 Visiting Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Computing, University of California, San Diego
2000 – 2001 Adjunct Faculty, Visual Arts & Digital Media Arts, Orange Coast College, California
ARTIS RESIDENCIES
2010 (June) - Banff New Media Institute, Co-Production Residency "Agent Mobile"
2008 (Nov/Dec) - Creator-in-Residence @ Tokyo Wondersite, Tokyo, Japan
2004 (June/July) - Banff New Media Institute, Co-Production "Pop! Goes the Weasel"
ARTISTIC WORKS & PERFORMANCES
2010 - "Contours in the Crosshairs", The New Gallery, Calgary, Sept 2 - Oct 2
2008 - “Trading Interventions”, Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice,
University of California, Santa Cruz
2008 - “Subversive Complicity”, Group Show at LAB gallery in San Francisco
2006 - “Exchange” - Festival Internacional de Arte Digital Rosario, Argentina
2006 - “Exchange Project”, traveling performance and exhibition. Host venues ranged from larger
galleries to artist run spaces, to alternative spaces, theatres, and public spaces.
TOURING PERFORMANCE & EXHIBITION
-Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, Canada, May 1
-Western Canada Theatre & Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, Canada, May 3
-Latitude 53 Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada, May 6
-Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB, May 7
-AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, May 13
-South Western Manitoba Art Gallery, Brandon, MN, May 18
-Plug In ICA Gallery, Winnipeg, MN, Canada, May 20
-Open Source Gallery, Champaign-Urbana, IL, USA, May 31
-Subtle Technologies Festival, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, June 4
-Parliament Hill, Ottawa, ON, Canada, June 6
-Zeke’s Gallery, Montreal, QC, June 10
-Mount St. Vincent’s University Gallery, Halifax, NS, Canada, June 21
-Third Space Gallery, Saint John, NB, Canada, June 26
-Art Interactive, Boston, MA, USA, July 1
-Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, July 7
-Secret Project Robot Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA, July 9
-Elsewhere Project, Greensboro, NC, USA, July 18
-Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM, USA, July 27
-Casa de la Cultura, Tijuana, MX, August 10
-Sushi Art, San Diego, CA, USA, August 12
-Santa Cruz Contemporary Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, August, 17
-Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR, USA, August 20
-Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC, Canada, September 6
2006 - "Beauty and the Beast", Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC, Canada, September 15
2005 - "Digital Skin", Thailand Media Arts Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
2004 - “Body-Con” Tokyo, Japan, Art Institute Tokyo, Curator Roger MacDonald
2003 - “Crude Events”, Performance, Fine Arts Gallery, The University of British Columbia
2002 - “Pop Goes the Weasel” ISEA 2002 “Ourai” Nagoya, Japan
2000 - “Photographic Revelations”, Frumkin Duval Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2000 - “Political Satire”, Frumkin Duval Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2000 - “DNC 2000” www.davisanddavis.org/dncshow & DNC Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA
2000 - “After/noon Tea” The California Institute of the Arts
2000 - Southern Graphics Conference, University of Miami, Miami, Fl
2000 - Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1999 - “Almost There” , The California Institute of the Arts
1999 - “Supermarket 1999”, Kansas City, Missouri
1999 - “1998 Photo/Video Arts Annual” Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles,
California
1998 - City of Newport Beach Arts Commission Newport Beach City Hall, Newport Beach, California
1997 - “Tin Cup”, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California
1997 - “Paper or Plastic” University of California, Irvine, Center for Women and Gender Education
GRANTS
2005-08 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Exchange Project)
2005 Canada Council For the Arts (Ambient)
2004 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Research Development)
2003 Banff New Media Centre – Co-Production (Pop! Goes the Weasel)
2002 University of BC Humanities and Social Sciences (Pop! Goes the Weasel)
2002 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Pop! Goes the Weasel)
CATALOGUES
Responsive Architectures: Subtle Technologies (ISBN 0-9780978-0-7) Ed. Beesley et al. Riverside Architectural Press, 2006
"2nd Festival Internacional de Arte Digitale", Rosario, Argentina, November 16-18, 2006
Richmond Art Gallery Annual Catalogue, Richmond, BC, 2006
"The Other Body", Open Horizons Organization for Human Rights, 4th Human Rights Art Fetival, Athens, Greece, December 10-12, 2004
"Body Con", Arts Initiative Tokyo, Japan, November 2003
"ISEA 2002" 11th INternational Symposium on Electronic Art", Nagoya, Japan 2002
"DNC 2000", DNC Exhibition, Los Angeles, 2000
"Tin Cup" Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA 1997
PUBLICATIONS
Nisbet, N. “Exchange::Drifting Between”, Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. Special Issue on Drifiting. (Issue 13, Fall 2006)
Nisbet, N. “Resisting Surveillance: Identity and Implantable Microchips”, Leonardo Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, 37.3 (2004): 211-215
Nisbet, N. "What comes out of what we Put into the 'Blueberry ibox? Tracking Virtual Identity”, cast01//living in mixed realities, netzspannung.org/journal, special issue (2001): 245-247
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
2008 - Artist Talk: Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan, December 13
2008 - Artist talk: University of California, Santa Cruz
2008 – “RFID: Art & Society”, The WAAG Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006 - “Technology, Art and Resistance”, Fundacion Telefonica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 - “Ephemeral Art: Intersections”, Festival Internacional de Arte Digital, Argentina
2006 - “Exchange: Art, Politics & Technology”, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, CA
2006 - “Radio Frequency Identification, Surveillance and Critique” Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver, CA
2006 - “Tracking Data / Tracking Bodies”, Library, Archival and Information Studies UBC, Vancouver, CA
2006 - “Exchange: Art, Politics & Technology”, Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
2006 - “Free Trade Performed: Border Issues”, Art Interactive & Upgrade, Boston, MA
2004 - “Divided Flesh, Infinite Data”, 4th Annual Human Rights Arts Festival, Athens, Greece
2003 - “Radio Frequency Identification: Art and Technology”, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, CA
2002 - “Pop! Goes the Weasel”, Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT), Tokyo, Japan, November
2002 - “Pop! Goes the Weasel”, Vancouver Art Gallery, Cyborg Symposium, Vancouver, CA
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
2007 - “Stories, Roadmaps and RFID”, Network Theory Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006 - “Ephemeral Art”, Festival Internacional de Arte Digital “Muestra 01”, Rosario, Argentina
2006 - “Free Trade Performed”, Subtle Technologies Festival,Toronto, Canada
2006 - “Exchange 2006”, Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI, USA
2003 - “Risky Surveillance”, Subtle Technologies Festival, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2002 - “Microchip Implantation & RFID”, ISEA 2002, Inter-Society for Electronic Arts, Nagoya, Japan
2001 - “Tracking Virtual Identity”, cast 01Conference, Bonn, Germany, September
REVIEWS AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
2006 - McLaughlin, J. “Exchanging Words: Nancy Nisbet”, Visual Arts News, Vol. 28 No.2,
(Summer 2006): 19-25
2006 - Walker, S. “Road trip for freer trade”, Toronto Star, July 22
2006 - Dault, J. “Continental supplied”, The National Post, May 25
2006 - Johnson, K. “Project:Exchange”, The Grand Forks Herald, May 22
2006 - Laurence, R. “Art’s road warrior”, The Georgia Straight, April 27
2006 - Mandel, C. “Performance artist takes her whole world on the road”, Vancouver Sun, Mar. 25
2002 - Jamieson, J. "Her World in Her Hands", The Vancouver Province, March 17
1999 - Trafton, R. “ ’Supermarket’: Art in your shopping cart”, The Kansas City Star, June 11
1999 - Ise, C. “Framing the Many Possibilities of Photography in the Tech Age”, Los Angeles Times,
March 5
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