TALISMAN CV

_______Nomi Talisman works with photography, video, and digital media, as well as exploring collaborations inside and outside the gallery. She likes to use the colors orange and blue and has a special fondness for hard drives, and other equipment she cannot afford. Her work explores public reflections of the private, and personal relationships to the political. She examines psychological, fictionalized and mythologized relationships to definitions of “the real”, both in her collaborative and individual projects. When not collaborating, she explores imagery by creating serials and sequences in order to investigate systems and structures of knowledge, from history of cinema, visual instructions, to mass media images. Her work combines media from public archives and footage that was shot on ordinary locations, depicting everyday events, in order to reveal the complicated reality in which we live.
Talisman has exhibited her work in Israel, where she was born, and in Europe (EU and others), Canada, the U.S. and Japan (Japan is a great place! – you should totally, etc.), and her video work has been screened internationally. She likes traveling. She would love to have more time, for no particular reason, or use. She thinks multitasking is overrated. She likes to experiment with sound in her work, although she would not call herself a musician. Neither would her landlord, dog, nor her partner. Talisman moved to the Bay Area on August 11, 2001, and thanks to rent control and her day job, she still lives and works in San Francisco, CA. She is also a two times recipient of THE O-1 Talented Artist Visas from the US government (2004 and 2007), and finally (2010) a permanent residency in the US as an Alien of Exceptional Abilities. You can contact her at

nomitalisman[at]earthlink[dot] net

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	Videography
2009-10 2009 2008-10 2008 2007 2007___ 2006-7 _ 2006-7 _ 2005-6 2005 __ 2005 __ 2005 __ 2005 __ 2005 __ 2004 __ 2004 __ 2003 __ 2002-3	I-140 - a video project with Dee Hibbert-Jones, 11:30 min. Consume Your Fear - Commission by ARGEkulture, Salzburg, Austria, 4:25 Min To Take a Life When a Life is Lost- a video project with Dee Hibbert-Jones. In progress Fence (working title), in progress Together, at last, at Twilight Time (1:17 min) Vacant Inventory - a Catalog of Space, 8:20 Min (with Dee Hibbert-Jones) Excess Baggage 10:10 Min (with Dee Hibbert-Jones) The Last Thing before the Last 9:30 Min., in progress. David Turns, 40 Sec. Inf. Loop Hazel and David, 4:45 Min. The Why of the System, 1&2 4:40 Min. File Under: More, 1:20 Min (with Dee Hibbert-Jones) Psychological Prosthetics™ infomercial, 8:37 Min, (with Dee Hibbert-Jones, external link) Coming Soon, 4:45 Min (Multi channel video, loop) File Under (Monument) 1:20 Min. Not swimming but diving #2, 5 Min. Not swimming but diving #1, 5 Min. Loop Everything I knew about America I learned from the Movies (a cycle of 11 short pieces):
	2003 Pink Feathers, 0:55 Min 2002 Untitled (Sunset Blvd), 1:08 Min 2003 The MacGuffin, 2:25 Min 2003 XXX, 1:00 Min 2003 Foreign film #1: The German scene, 0:45 Min 2003 Untitled (Casablanca), 1:20 Min 2002 A Western, 1:45 Min 2003 Foreign film #2: Japanese movie w/ Yellow subtitles, 1:05 Min 2003 Hearts of Darkness, 1:10 Min 2003 The Pope of Trash, 2:34 Min 2003 Foreign film #3: Vis-à-vis, 0:43 Min
2003 _ 2002 _ 2001 _	Home movie #1, 5 Min. With Heike Liss Plan B, 4 Min. You will pass a difficult test that will make you Happier, 2:35 Min
	Selected Screenings
2010	Amnesty International Human Right Arts Festival, Silver Spring, MD
2009	Mobile Archive at Careof e Viafarini, DOCVA, Milan, Italy The Ma'abada, Jerusalem (Curator: Smadar Schindler, Artistic director: Doron Tavori). Voice of the Word festival Consume Your Fear ARGEkulture, Salzburg, Austria, Angst Macht dumm Festival
2008	Mobile Archive at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V., Germany The Loft Video Gallery, UC San Diego Mobile Archive at Newbury Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland 44th Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema Peasaro, Italy Mobile Archive, Universita luav di Venezia, Italy Santa Cruz International Film Festival, CA Mobile Archive, Maribor Art Gallery, Slovenia Open Video Project, Marta-Herford museum, Germany Experiments in Cinema V 3.0, Albuquerque, New Mexico Mobile Archive, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia Mobile Archive, WHW's Gallery Nove, Zagreb, Croatia
2007	Mobile Archive, WYSPA Art Institute in Gdansk, Poland The Mobile Archive - Bay Area Shorts program at Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany Found Footage work, Salt Lake City Arts Center, UT Open Video Project - Milan, Italy and the US Stranger than Fiction, The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland Gallery 400, Illinois University at Chicago AntiMatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC Canada Fluctuating Images, Stuttgart, Germany FLEFF Film Festival, Ithaca, NY MadCat Interntional Women's Film Festival, San Francisco
2006	The Open Archive, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel Avant to Live, New Experimental work, Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
2005	Academic Film Archives of North America @ Works San Jose, San Jose, CA University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France Fluctuating Images, Stuttgart, Germany Millais Gallery, Southampton Institute, Southampton, UK
2004	AntiMatter Festival, Victoria BC Canada Betweens, San Francisco Cinemateque NewFimmakers, Anthology Films Archives, NYC
2003	AntiMatter Festival, Victoria BC, Canada 21 Grand, Oakland, CA Bard College, Annandale- on- Hudson, NY
2002	Appropriate, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
	Solo Exhibitions
2009 2007 2005 2005 2005 2005	Consume Your Fear, video installation at ARGEkultur, Salzburg, Austria Psychological Prosthetics: Emotional Baggage, public interventions, Chicago, IL Other Peoples’ Things, San Francisco Recycling and Disposal AIR Program (external link) PP Valise gallery sponsored performance/exhibition The Millais Gallery, Southampton, England PP Valise, gallery sponsored performance: Berkeley Art Museum Garden, Berkeley PP Valise Interventions:: (external link)
	_• Winchester, England. _• St. Paul’s Cathedral, Waterloo Bridge London, England _• Place Georges-Pompidou, Paris _• Marktplatz Basel, Switzerland, _• Rothschild Blvd, Tel Aviv, Israel __(collaboration with Dee Hibbert-Jones)
2005 2004 2001 1997 1996 1993	Elsewhere Installation, Elsewhere Artists’ Collaborative, Greensboro, NC “Just like in the Movies”, The Austin law group, SF, CA “Group/Ungroup”, The Gallery at Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, Israel “Look and listen. Say that”, Beit Berl College of Art, Israel “Where I’m Calling from”, Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel “Nomi Talisman” Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
	Selected Group Exhibtions
2009 2008 2007 ____ ____ _____ 2006 2005 __ 2004 2003 2002 2000 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1994	• It's Not Us, It's You, San Jose institute of Contemporary Art (I-140 with Dee Hibbert-Jones. Curator: Ray Beldner) • The Voice of the Word festival, Jerusalem, Israel • Subversive Art Fair, Psychological Prosthetics @ Subversive Messe, with Social Impact, Linz, Austria • Escape, Galerie Califia, Zamek Horazd'ovice, The Czech Republic • East of the West, SoMarts, San Francisco • Interruptions of Hierarchies, UC Santa Cruz, Sesnon Gallery (Interventions Festival) • Corporate Art Expo 07™, the Lab, San Francisco. Psychological Prosthetics™ • CESTA Waste Festival, Tabor, Czech Republic • Pathogeographies, or Other People's Baggage, Gallery 400 University of Illinois, Chicago (Psychological Prosthetics - PDF) • SF Recycled, Salt Lake City Art Center, UT • Photo SF, with Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA • Microcosm, Richmond Arts Center, Richmond, CA, • Sketch, UC Davis Memorial Union gallery, Davis, CA • Psychological Prosthetics. With Dee Hibbert-Jones. Invitation by Terri Cohn for Stretcher.org at Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco,CA • Sociedad de Vida, Steven Wolf Fine Art, San Francisco • Sacred Spaces, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, supported by the NEA (Curator: Terri Cohn, Catalogue) • Family Unit, Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA • MFA show, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA • Fetish: Art/Word, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, CA (Curator: Nizan Shaked) • 100 Years of Photography in the Land of Israel, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel • Condition Report - Photography in Israel Today, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (Curator: Nisan Perez, catalogue) • The Ministry of Culture and Education’s Young Artists Prize, Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, Israel • Another Language, Haifa Museum, in collaboration with the Artists' Museum, Poland. Joint installation with Miriam Cabessa, Haifa, Israel • America-Israel Scholarship Fund, the Gallery at the Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel • New Acquisitions, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel • 90-70-90 Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Rona Sela, catalogue) • The Anglo - Israeli Photographic Awards, The Artists House Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel & the Akehurst Gallery London (Catalogue)
	Collaborations and Projects (also check out www.operatinginstructions.org)
2009 2008-9 2007 _____ _____ 2006 2005 2004	• Consume Your Fear, Psychological Prosthetics at Subversive Messe, Linz, Austria • Meta/Data, online project commission, Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California • Are we there yet? An interactive video/sound instalation in Yokohama, Japan, Dislocate 08 • Co-curator, The Show starts at the Sidewalk, screening series for Interrupt! Intervene! Art as Social Change conference, hosted by UC Santa Cruz • Screening programs at The Lab (Co-curator), San Francisco • Psychological Prosthetics, with Dee Hibbert-Jones and Feel Tank, University of Chicago • Vacant Inventory - A Catalog of Space, with Dee Hibbert-Jones • Bay Area Shorts for the Open Archive @ the Israeli Center for Digital Media (program - PDF) • Summer film program curator, The Lab, San Francisco: _____• Introductiong Fluctuating Images (Stuttgart, Germany) _____• Road Movies (both curated with Heike Liss) _____• Stranger Than Fiction (for program) • The Academic Film Archive of North America, with Works/ San Jose. (Invitational project) • Psychological Prosthetics with Dee Hibbert-Jones. Funded by UCSC grants and Institute of Research in the Arts • “Letters to an Unknown Friend”, Site specific interactive installation in collaboration with Dee Hibbert-Jones; supported by the __National Endowment for the Arts for Sacred Spaces at Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA • “Take a Letter”, performance, with Dee Hibbert-Jones, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2003 1998 1997 1997 1995	• “Home Movie #1”, video, 5 Min. with Heike Liss • Jerusalem au Pluriel, Commissioned Photographic project for a symposium held at Marseille, France • Mobile Seminar. Participated in a two-day Mobile-Seminar for Palestinian and Israeli artists and individuals involved in the arts • An installation with Artist Miriam Cabessa, Another Language, Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel, with the Artists' Museum, Poland • Studio-Shelters, documentation of artists’ studios in public shelters, commissioned by the city of Tel Aviv Art Dept. and the Public Art & Culture Committee
1993	• Photographic project with Adi Nes, documenting the Jewish Gay community in London. The Anglo-Israeli Photographic Awards_ (Multi Exposure), London, UK. Exhbited in London, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Catalogue.
	Publication of Work
2006 2005 2004 2004 2001 1997 1995 1995	SlashSeconds, online magazine/gallery from Leeds University,UK (video work) N-Media, New Media Caucus, CAA. Writing about video work, by invitation Click any letter, Artists’ book, with Dee Hibbert-Jones “Documents Between”. Ed; Elizabeth Block, San Francisco "Any One at Home?" a piece in five parts, designed for the back page of Ha'ir (weekly magazine), Israel Series of Photographs on the back page of Ha'ir (weekly supplement), Israel Publication of portfolio in Theory and Criticism, Vol. 5, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel Portfolio 1994, Borochov Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, special edition photographic print
	Bibliography: Books, magazines, newspapers, or online (selected)
	• 15 Bytes review of SF Recycled at Salt Lake City Art Center, December 2007 • Psychological Prosthetics , Yaelle Amir, SlashSeconds July 2007 "Things that Move" (PDF) • Garbage In, Art out. Paul Kilduff, SF Chronicle, December 2005 • Here, There, Everywhere: artists’ projects. By Terri Cohn for Stretcher.org • A 15-year Retrospective of the Norcal Artist Residency at the Dump, Steven Wolf Fine Art. Review, Clark Buckner, _ Artweek, Sep.2005 • Let's Call it Art (CAA Recognizes the New Media). Juliet Davis, Rhizome.org (online), march 2005 • Off Site: Nomi Talisman at the Austin Law Group. Terri Cohn, Artweek, Dec 2004-Jan 2005 • The Next Generation, Combing the MFA shows for up and coming tech artists, Glen Helfand, SF Gate, May 22nd, 2003 • In Between, Grad students at Mills, East Bay Express, Lindsay Westbrook, April 25th, 2003 • The Israeli Lexicon Of Photography, Ed. Guy Raz. Mapa Publishers (with the Kibbutz Hameuchad ), Israel, _2002 • Graduates of the post graduate studies at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Sarah Breitberg- Semel, Studio Art Magazine, _ No. 97, Nov. 1998 • Israeli Photography - possible narratives, Eyal Ben Dov, Studio Art Magazine, No. 91, March 1998 • Nomi Talisman, "Look & Listen, Say That", Galia Yahav, Studio Art Magazine, No. 84, July 1997 • Nomi Talisman, "Where I'm Calling from", Camera Obscura Gallery, Eyal Ben Dov Studio Art Magazine, No. 71, April- May 1996 • Nomi Talisman, Camera Obscura Gallery, Curator: Vered Maimon, Ester Dotan, Studio Art Magazine No. 70, March- April 1996 • Focus - Nomi Talisman / Curator's choice Vered Maimon, 4x5 Art Magazine, No. 75, March 1996 • Where is Nomi Talisman calling from? Hadas Maor Shishi, Weekly Supplement, March 8, 1996
	Catalogs
2009 2009 2007 2006 2005 2004 2002 2000 1998 1997 1997 1995 1994 1994 1994 1993 1993	Consume Your Fear, 2nd edition, ARGEkultur, Salzburg, Austria Consume Your Fear, Psychological Prosthetics™ at Subversive Messe, Linz, Austria Psychological Prosthetics, a catalog for "pathogeographies", Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago. Microcosm, The Richmond Art center, Richmond, CA (PDF) Microcosm, The Project at The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA (PDF) Sacred Spaces, The Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA Fetish: Art/Word, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, CA 100 Years of Photography in the Land of Israel, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Condition Report - Photography in Israel Today, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (Catalog and CD) The Ministry of Culture and Education's Young Artists Prize, Israel Another Language, Haifa Museum, in collaboration with the Artists' Museum, Poland Multi-Purpose: Artists Studio/ Public Shelter. Tel Aviv, Israel 90-70-90 Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel The Anglo - Israeli Photographic Awards, The Artists House Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel, Akehurst Gallery, London, UK The Suitcase, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Third Person, Bograshov Gallery and Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
	Visiting Art Lectures/ Talks/ Residencies (selected)
2009 2009 2008 2008 2008 2008 2007 2007 2006 2006 2006 2006 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2004 2004 2003 2001 1998 1997 1996 1994	META/DATA - QCCA at CCA, San Franciaco Public Domain - Graduate seminar, San Francisco Art Institute. Artist talk Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous Red Mill artist residency, The Czech Republic Stanford University, Artist talk and screening California College of the Arts, Artist talk CESTA, Tabor (The Czech Republic) - Waste Festival University of Chicago, IL. Artist talk (Psychological Prosthetics) Contemporary art workshop Artist Talk, Image-World, Mills College Art Dept. Oakland, CA Juror, Work/San Jose residency program San Francisco Art Institute, graduate seminar, artist talk Sacramento State University, (California) video screening with artist talk Stanford University (CA) video screening with artist talk Artist in Residence Program, SF Recycling & Disposal Inc. San Francisco, CA UC Santa Cruz. Screening, artists, talk, Intermedia program UNC Chapel Hill, NC. Artist talk and video screening Elsewhere, Artists Collaborative Project, Greensboro, NC CAA Conference: “Screen shots and audio Effects”, panelist. Atlanta, GA Sight Unseen, KLAX Radio, Berkeley, CA California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Artist talk with screening Benicia Arts Center, Panel, Cream, Benicia, CA Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, artist talk, Jerusalem, Israel Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Photography department, Jerusalem, Israel Beit Berl School of Art, Beit Berl College, Israel. Artist talk The gallery at Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. Artist talk Akehurst Gallery, London, UK, Artists House Gallery, Jerusalem, Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv. Organized by The Anglo-Israeli Photographic Awards board
	Awards, Prizes and Scholarships
2009 2009 2009 2008 2008 2007 2004 2003 2002 2002 1996 1995 1994 1993	Creative Work Fund grant, with Community Resource Initiative and Dee Hibbert-Jones (Impact) Finalist, Visions fron the New California Award San Francisco Arts Commission, Individual Artist Grant (Impact) Bridge Residency nominee, Headlands Center for the Arts SECA award nominee (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) Visions from the New California Award nominee National Endowment for the Arts in conjunction with Berkeley Arts Center exhibition “Sacred Spaces” Jay DeFeo Award for an outstanding achievement, MFA thesis exhibition, Mills College, CA Graduate Research Grant, Mills College, CA Herringer Prize for Excellence in Art, Mills College, CA The Young Artists Prize, The Ministry of Culture and Education, Israel Sharett Fund Scholarship (The Israel - America Cultural Fund), Israel Sharett Fund Scholarship (The Israel - America Cultural Fund), Israel The Anglo - Israeli Photographic Awards (Multi- Exposure), England-Israel
	Education
2003 1998 1992 _ 1990	MFA; Mills College, Oakland, CA. Photography, video & electronic arts Post Graduate studies, Young Artists Program, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Israel Art Teachers Training College, Beit Berl School of Art, Ramat Hasharon, Israel Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel. Photography

Photographing at the Yuma Crossing, AZ, 2007
(Photo: Dee Hibbert-Jones)