NISI ARIANA has a BFA from The Cooper Union and is a photographer and songwriter/producer. Nisi composes with Ableton Live, Max for Live Devices, XFer Records Wavetable Serum Synth, Fender Jazz & P Bass, and hand percussion in her solo project FEELS LIKE RITA. Guided and inspired by composer and Ableton lead creative, Yeuda Ben-Atar. Nisi’s photography is a game of chance with nature’s magnificence, captured by iPhone with no or minimal processing, and available in archival, Museum-grade, sustainable framing through the ART SHOP.

Nisi studied creative writing with Frank McCourt at Stuyvesant High School in New York City, and won the sole Graduation Award for Creative Writing. Nisi won a full scholarship to study art in Cortona, Italy, in the last year of Cooper, and learned computer science, digital photography, visual signage, and silk fabric painting at Fashion Institute of Technology.

At the Experimental Cinema Department at SUNY, Binghamton, co-founded by her father, experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs, Nisi studied analog field recording & mixing, film sound design, and nonlinear editing with Vincent Grenier and Jacobs.

Nisi taught audio & video at NYU Graduate Center of Advanced Digital Applications, NYU Continuing Ed, NY Film Academy, The New School, BMCC, The Edit Center, Future Media Concepts, Soho Editors, and national Certified Apple Authorized Training Centers (Final Cut Pro, 3D Motion, Apple Certified Trainer).

NOTABLE EVENTS

ABSTRACT ETERNALISM at the MoMA Sculpture Garden
ETERNAL BEACH at the MoMA
GROMMETS in 5.1 surround at the Berlinale 2015
NOTHING/MOVING: A MULTICELLULAR ORGANIGRAM in multichannel AV at Maya Stendhal Gallery

PROGRAMS, MULTICHANNEL INSTALLATIONS, FESTIVALS

Jeu De Paume Museum Paris, San Francisco Cinematheque, River to River Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Hong Kong Film Festival, Circulo de Bellas Artes Madrid, Maya Stendhal Gallery, SONAR festival at the Caracas Contemporary Art Museum, CalArts Film/Video Cinematheque, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Diapason Gallery, The Alejandro Otero Museum, National Cinématheque of Spain, Manchester Metropolitan University of England, International Biennial of Contemporary Art Venezuela, 9th Korea Experimental Arts Festival Seoul, Happy New Ears Festival Belgium, Q-02 Belgium, Ear to the Earth Festival, Judson Church, The Stone, SYNCH Electronic Festival, Phatory Gallery, HOWL Film Festival