Ellen R. Sandor
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| Born | 1942 |
| Education | BA from Brooklyn College, MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) |
| Known for | New media art |
| Notable work | PHSColograms |
| Awards | Honorary doctorate, SAIC (2012); Fermilab Artist in Residence (2016) |
| Website | http://www.artn.com/ |
Ellen R. Sandor (born 1942) is an American new media artist. She is also founder of the Chicago-based (art)n, a collective of artists, scientists, mathematicians, and computer experts. Ellen Sandor and (art)n create sculptures that contain computer-generated photographic images that appear to be three dimensional. She is best known for combining computer graphics, sculpture, and photography to visualize subject matter that includes architecture, historical events, and scientific phenomena such as the AIDS virus.
Sandor holds a B.A. from Brooklyn College (1963) and an MFA in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1975). She was awarded an honorary doctorate of fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014.
She is an affiliate of eDream (Emerging Digital Research in Education in Arts Media Institute) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a board member of Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York and a 2016 Fermilab Artist in Residence at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
In 1983 Sandor formed an artists’ group called (art)n. They created a new art form, called PHSColograms (pronounced “skolograms”), which are 3D barrier-screen computer-generated photographs and sculptures. The term PHSColograms refers to a combination of photography, holography, sculpture and computer graphics. Some of (art)n’s best-known scientific visualizations include a rendering of the AIDS virus cell as well as visualizations of the polio virus, DNA, and the human brain.
Through her Chicago studio, (art)n, Sandor collaborates with artists and technologists to create PHSColograms commissioned by art and science institutions. Sandor’s work has been commissioned by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , the Smithsonian Institution, and the Tech Museum of Innovation, among others. Her work is held in public and private art collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the International Center of Photography, the National Academy of Sciences, the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
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