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Ellen R. Sandor
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. 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, Neutrinos, Microglia, and CRISPR.
Sandor holds a B.A. from Brooklyn College (1963) and an MFA in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1975). In 2012, she received the Thomas R. Leavens Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts through Lawyers for the Creative Arts. In 2013, Ellen received the Gene Siskel Film Center Outstanding Leadership Award. She was also awarded an honorary doctorate of fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014.
Sandor was a visiting scholar of culture and society, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 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 poliovirus, 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.
Sandor and (art)n have worked with a variety of artists including Ed Paschke, Karl Wirsum, Chris Landreth, Martyl Langsdorf, Donna Cox, Miroslaw Rogala and Claudia Hart. In addition, she and (art)n have worked with scientists at the Scripps Research Institute, NASA, and the U.S. Army.
Sandor was honored by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for her longstanding commitment to integrating art and science in 2017.
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Ellen R. Sandor
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. 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, Neutrinos, Microglia, and CRISPR.
Sandor holds a B.A. from Brooklyn College (1963) and an MFA in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1975). In 2012, she received the Thomas R. Leavens Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts through Lawyers for the Creative Arts. In 2013, Ellen received the Gene Siskel Film Center Outstanding Leadership Award. She was also awarded an honorary doctorate of fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014.
Sandor was a visiting scholar of culture and society, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 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 poliovirus, 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.
Sandor and (art)n have worked with a variety of artists including Ed Paschke, Karl Wirsum, Chris Landreth, Martyl Langsdorf, Donna Cox, Miroslaw Rogala and Claudia Hart. In addition, she and (art)n have worked with scientists at the Scripps Research Institute, NASA, and the U.S. Army.
Sandor was honored by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for her longstanding commitment to integrating art and science in 2017.