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Interactive Telecommunications

Nurit Bar-shai
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communications

Courses

Video Art

Education

MPS, New York University (ITP)
BFA, Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design (Jerusalem)

Biography

Nurit is a New York-based artist. Her main interest lies in exploring tensions between the mundane and the uncanny in everyday life. Bar-Shai's work employs video and new technologies to explore fundamental questions of presentation and representation, to reframe the familiar and turn audiences into foreigners in their own ontological domains. Her work has been exhibited widely in venues such as the Brooklyn Museum, Team galley in New York, and international festivals taking place in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Bar-Shai attaneded a residency at ETC,  the Makor Steinhardt Center and Harvestworks. Her art received favorable reviews in many media outlets, including Ha´aretz, The New York Times and Art on Paper.