About
Nadav Assor’s layered videos, sound work, installations and performances engage real and imagined places and personal stories in an embodied, visceral, and critical manner. The work is produced and mediated through lo-fi, handmade technological systems, often based on appropriated military-industrial systems, driven by and for the body, generating intimate human connections and new, fragmented perspectives.
Assor’s work has been featured in film festivals, museums, galleries, and live venues across North America, Europe, and Asia. Recent venues include Gallery 400 Chicago, Arsenal Berlin, the Oberhausen Film Festival, Video Vortex XI at Kochi-Muziris, India, Hong-Gah Museum Taipei, La Casa Encendida Madrid, Edith-Russ Haus Oldenburg, Transmediale Festival Berlin, the Soundwave Biennial San Francisco, Residency Unlimited NYC, Julie M Gallery Toronto + Tel Aviv, Fridman Gallery NYC and more.
Assor’s work has been reviewed in publications such as Artforum, Hyperallergic, the Chicago Tribune, the Bad at Sports podcast, Art Monthly UK and Haaretz, and featured in “Rêvolution Digitale”, an overview of international digital art by CANAL’s Museum TV channel. Many of his single channel video works as well as some multichannel ones are distributed via Video Data Bank, Chicago.
He is a Professor of Studio Art at Connecticut College, where he also directs the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, and is an alumni fellow of the MIT Open Documentary Lab (2019-2022) and a current researcher with the Lab’s AR and Public Space working group.
nadav [at] nadassor [dot] net