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.[1] Ellen 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.[2]
Education
Sandor holds a B.A. from Brooklyn College (1963)[3] and an MFA in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1975).[4] 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.[5]
In 1983 Sandor formed an artists’ group called (art)n.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9]
She is co-editor and contributor to New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts (2018) published by the University of Illinois Press.[14]
Patents
Sandor is the co-holder of five U.S. patents, three for autostereography techniques and two for polymerization of lenticular images.[15]
Collecting and Philanthropy
Sandor and her husband, economist Richard L. Sandor, have assembled a private art collection with over 1,800 objects dating from the 1840s to the present.[16] In 1988, 2001, and 2002 the Sandors were listed by Art & Antiques magazine as one of America's top 100 private collectors.[17]
The Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Collection contains photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and new media works focusing around themes such as 19th- and 20th-century icons, Paris between the wars, the American West, Hollywood portraits, and surrealism.[18]
^"Field trip to art(n)". Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. University of Illinois at Chicago. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
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^New Media Futures : the Rise of Women in the Digital Arts. Cox, Donna J.,, Sandor, Ellen,, Fron, Janine. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 2018. ISBN9780252050183. OCLC1032708552.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)