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Nina Sellars

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Nina Sellars
NationalityAustralian-British
EducationPhD Monash University
Known forVisual Art, interdisciplinary

Nina Sellars is an artist and Research Fellow at the Alternate Anatomies Lab, School of Design & Art, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. Sellars describes her artwork as focused on "human anatomy and its symbiotic history with arts and technology."[1] Sellars is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia and the Project Manager for Immersive Environments at the School of Design & Art, Curtin University, where she designs augmented reality/blended reality teaching spaces that are informed by visual arts practice.[2]

Sellars' installations, such as her 2009 work Anatomy of Optics and Light, aim to highlight relationships between light and the anatomical body.[3][4]

Sellars' work has been featured in analyses of science-inspired artwork.[5] Sellars has collaborated extensively with fellow artist Stelarc, as in their 2005 biomaterials installation Blender[6] and in Oblique: Images from Stelarc's Extra Ear Surgery, which consists of Sellars' photographs of Stelarc's unusual body modification.[7] A group exhibition that featured this piece, Art & Science: Merging Art & Science to Make a Revolutionary New Art Movement at GV Art Gallery in London, received an exhibition review in the scientific journal BMJ.[7] She was also featured in the group exhibition Human+ at the Trinity College Science Gallery in Dublin, which was discussed in scientific journal Nature.[8]

References

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  1. ^ Sellars, Nina. "Artist's Statement". NinaSellars.com. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Nina Sellars". Fabrica Vitae. np. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  3. ^ Miles, Melissa. "Solid States/Liquid Objects" (PDF). ninasellars.com. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  4. ^ "Nina Sellars The Optics of Anatomy and Light". fehilycontemporary.com.au. Fehily Contemporary. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  5. ^ Miller, Arthur (2014). Colliding worlds : how cutting-edge science is redefining contemporary art. [S.l.]: W W Norton. ISBN 978-0393083361.
  6. ^ Clarke, Julie (October 2006). "Corporeal Mélange: Aesthetics and Ethics of Biomaterials in Stelarc and Nina Sellars's". Leonardo. 39 (5): 410–416. doi:10.1162/leon.2006.39.5.410. S2CID 57566755.
  7. ^ a b Carter, S. (10 August 2011). "The emergence of art-science". BMJ. 343 (aug10 3): d5133. doi:10.1136/bmj.d5133. S2CID 59092528.
  8. ^ King, Anthony (26 May 2011). "Art: Body work". Nature. 473 (7348): 451. Bibcode:2011Natur.473..451K. doi:10.1038/473451a.
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