nathalie miebach
Miebach work focuses on the intersection of art and sciences, by articulating visually scientific observations. Using the methodologies and processes of both disciplines, Nathalie Miebach translate scientific data related to astronomy, ecology and metereology into woven sculptures. She basically translate data in three dimensional spaces. "By staying true to the numbers", she says, "these woven pieces tread an uneasy divide between functioning both as sculptures in space as well as instruments that could be used in the actual environment from which the data originates".
By using everyday materials, Miebach questions and expands boundaries through wich science data has been traditionally translated into graphs and diagrams. By "examining the complex behavioral interactions of living/non-living systems between weather and an environment", says Nathalie Miebach, "I hope to gain a better understanding of complexity of systems and behaviors that make up weather and climate change".
Performances
2011
Hurricane Noel. Collaborative musical performance with Nineteen Thirteen, Milwaukee Art Museum, live-performance
2010
Jean's Passing. Collaborative musical performance with Elaine Rombola (church organ, piano), Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA. - live-performance
Hurricane Noel. Collaborative musical performance with the Axis Ensemble (New Music ensemble), Lilypad, Cambridge, MA.- live-performance
Hurricane Noel. Collaborative musical performance with Butter (Rock Band), Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, MA - recorded-performance
2009
Navigating Into a New Night. Collaborative musical performance with Elaine Rombola (piano), Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA - live-performance
Stormy Weather, Internal Storm. Collaborative musical performance with Elaine Rombola (piano), Amherst College, MA. - live-performance
2001
How to Build a Raft, Cave Dog Production.
State University of New York at New Paltz, NY. Cambridge Multicultural Center
2000
Cambridge, MA Performer in multi-media production combining shadow, video, narrative and music
2000
Squares at Mobius Theater, Boston, MA. Solo Performance
1995 & 1994
Cinderella and The Chaos, by Eko Widyasmoro & Hunting the Golden Deer, by Greg Harris
Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Collaboration with Indonesian Wayang.
Solo exhibition
2012
Babson College, Wellesley, MA
Direktorenhaus, Berlin, Germany
2011
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Wallace L. Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA
Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State University, MA
Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
Stonehill College, Easton, MA
2010
Boston Arts Academy, Boston, MA
Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
2009
Cynthia Reeves Gallery - New York, NY
Schick Gallery, Skidmore College - Saratoga Springs, NY
Amherst College, Amherst, MA
2008
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2007
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2006
Riverfront Window Project, Cambridge, MA
Publications
Her work has been reviewed by numerous national and international publications, including Art in America, Art News, Sculpture Magazine, American Craft Magazine, Wired UK, New Scientist, Christian Science Monitor (Innovation Section), Boston Globe, Art New England, FORM Magazine, MIT-Sea Grant Newsletter, The Boston Phoenix, Provincetown Banner, and many more.
artist portfolio
artist portfolio
Hurricane Noel, 2010 |
Reed, wood, plastic, data | 87 x 87 x 90 cm
3D Musical Score of the passing of Hurricane Noel through the Gulf of Maine, Nov 6-8, 2007.
Meteorological data comes from two weather stations in Hyannis, MA and Natashquan, Quebec as well as an off-shore buoy anchored on George’s Bank in the Gulf of Maine.
Hurricane Noel - Score, 2010 | Ink, data | 53 x 43 cm
Using meteorological information from two weather stations (Hyannis, MA and Natashquan, Quebec) and one off shore buoy (George’s Bank), this score translates barometric, wind and
temperature readings to try to discern the path Hurricane Noel took as it entered the Gulf of Maine during Nov 3-5, 2007.
The Loneliness of a White Knuckler, 2010 |
Reed, wood, wire, paper, data | 85 x 85 x 137 cm
3D Musical Score of “The Loneliness of a White Knuckler”, translating weather data of a particularly nasty winter storm in 2007 and the memories it evoked of the Blizzard of 1978. She says about her works: "The brunt of the storm missed Cape Cod, where I was living at the time.
My husband, meanwhile, was stuck in the disastrous grid-lock that happened all over the Boston area. The interpretation is thus from the perspective of someone who witnesses this event from afar through the occasional phone calls from my husband on the road as conditions were getting worse and worse".
The Loneliness of a White Knuckler, 2010 | Ink, data | 30 x 44 cm
"This score is predominantly about a long, frightening and lonely commute home during a fierce winter storm that resulted in major gridlock around the Boston area until deep into the night.
While the meteorological conditions were not as severe, the suddenness of the storm’s arrival combined with the chaotic human behavior it generated brought back memories of the Blizzard of 1978". The score combines meteorological data of both the Blizzard of 1978 (Feb 6 – 8, 1978) and Dec 12, 2007.
External Weather, Internal Storms, 2009 |
Reed, metal, wood, data | 85 x 100 x 135 cm
3D Musical Score “External Weather, Internal Storms” – translating urban weather data collected in Boston, MA, during Fall 2008.
The score explores the relationship between emotions and weather and their influence of one another. Based on a particular incidence that took place during the Fall, during which external weather patterns became reflections of an internal storm.
Changing Waters
This large-scale installation consists of a large wall installation (33 feet wide) that plots information through the geographic anchors of a map of the Gulf of Maine, as well as a series
of large, hanging structures (10 feet high) that look at more specific biological, chemical or geophysical relationships between marine ecosystems and weather patterns.
Navigating Into A New Night, 2009 |
Ink, data | 10 pages of 30 x 21 cm on notation paper
Ten page musical score translating weather data collected in Boston during the Fall of 2008.
Intertwined with the meteorological weather are events out of my own life that dictate the tempo and mood of the interpretation. Parts of this score have been translated into sculptures and have been performed in collaboration with Elaine Rombola, pianist.
Sun Gnomon for Stormy Night -Nov 13-19, 2008, 2009 | Wood, data, reed | 101 x 110 x 111 cm
3D Musical Score “External Weather, Internal Storms” – translating urban weather data collected in Boston, MA, during Fall 2008.
The score explores the relationship between emotions and weather and their influence of one another. Data refer to a particular incidence that took place during the Fall, during which external weather patterns became reflections of an internal storm. Written for three musicians who like to improvise.
The Perfect Dance, 2010 | Reed, wood, data | 140 x 140 x 20 cm
Hypothetical models of extremes gain freakishness to them when they actually play themselves out in nature. In October 1991, an event meteorologists still refer to as “The Perfect Storm” entered the Gulf of Maine.
A low-pressure system hovering over Nova Scotia, an energy system coming from the Great Lakes, and a dying Hurricane near Bermuda called Grace, formed together to create an enormous storm called the “Halloween Storm” that eventually developed into another Hurricane. She says: "Of particular interest to me are the unusual paths these storms took, before and after they joined energies".
