Nuum is a collective of artists based in New York City committed to bringing multiple forms together into a total work of art. We work with a wide-range of forms: human-computer interaction, choreography, sound, visual art, and language, examining each form through the lens of an adjacent one.
Nuum Collective’s work has been supported and presented by The Movement Lab at Barnard College, MANA Contemporary, La MaMa NYC | Culture Hub, The Center for Ballet and The Arts, Soft Magazine and A4 Museum among others.
NiNi Dongnier 东妮尔
Inner Mongolia-China born, New York and Beijing-based, NiNi Dongnier is a choreographer, performer, and media artist. She works with dance, theater, performance, textiles, text, and emerging and used technology as materials in her practice. Her work explores complex configurations of structure and improvisation, micro and macro, real and virtual, local and global, and personal and social. Throughout, Dongnier conveys an interest in perception, embodied experience, migration, and landscape.
Dongnier’ work has been presented at Movement Research at the Judson Church, The Watermill Center, Gibney Dance, National Centre for the Performing Arts of China, Art Basel in Hong Kong, Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, Made in NY Media Center By IFP, IAC Headquarters among others. She has held residencies at the American Dance Festival ICR program (2011), The Watermill Center Summer Program (2019) and currently at The A4 Museum in Chengdu, China.
She holds an MFA in Choreography and Technology from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a graduate of Beijing Dance Academy and SUNY Purchase College. Dongnier has taught at Beijing Dance Academy, CUNY Hunter College, and Barnard College-Columbia University. She founded the nomadic company FIELDMOTION in 2019.
Tiri Kananuruk
Bangkok-born, New York-based Tiri Kananuruk is a performance and new media artist. She holds a BA in Exhibition Design from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, and a Master in Interactive Telecommunications from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Her work has been shown abroad in Thailand, Iceland, the Philippines as well as in New York City at Culture Hub, Roulette Intermedium, Judson Memorial Church, The Firehouse Space Brooklyn and Babycastles. She was a new media art residency at Mana Contemporary in 2019, she is currently an artist in residence at CultureHub, New York. Her work explores the manipulation of sound in the context of technological consumerism, examining human relationships through the use of transmitted signals, natural language processing, and bodily movement.
Mimi Yin
Mimi Yin is an interaction artist, programmer and educator. A multi-disciplinary composer of movement, sound, language and participatory theater, she uses human-computer interaction to interrogate the wide-ranging forms of human interaction. Her research and work have been presented on Governor’s Island, off The Highline, Chashama, Yale University Art Gallery, Gibney Dance, Danspace in St. Mark’s Church, Culture Hub, The Movement Lab at Barnard and The Center for Ballet and The Arts. Her research into interactive media and choreographic practice and pedagogy is supported by an NEA Emerging Media Art Works grant. Mimi graduated from Yale University with a degree in Music. She is currently an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and is also a guest lecturer in the Barnard College Dance Department.