Nisi JACOBS plays bass, keys, percussion in diNMachine. diNMachine’s new release The Opposites of Unity on Greedy Dilettante Records is out 1.22.16. Dance to Reason, mixed/produced by Bill Laswell, was released in 2014. Recent performances include Union Pool, Le Poisson Rouge, Secret Project Robot with Ken Jacobs’ Nervous Magic Lantern, Pianos, Silent Barn, Palisades, Cameo Gallery, Shapeshifter Lab, Bowery Electric, Trans-Pecos, AS220 and BSP Lounge. Nisi has a BFA in painting from The Cooper Union. Her sound piece ‘Grommets’ with Ken Jacob’s stroboscopic video was presented in 5.1 surround at the Berlinale 2015. Nisi’s video pieces and installations have been included in programs at Tribeca Film Festival, Hong Kong Film Festival, Circulo de Bellas Artes of Madrid, Maya Stendhal Gallery, Diapason Gallery, Jeu De Paume Museum, SONAR Festival, CalArts Film/Video Cinematheque, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, The Alejandro Otero Museum, National Cinamatheque of Spain, Manchester Metropolitan University of England, River-to-River Film Festival, Ear to the Earth Festival, among others. Nisi has curated multichannel A/V programs for SYNCH Electronic Festival, Phatory Gallery, HOWL Film Festival and Diapason Gallery. Nisi instructed video editing and sound design from 2003-2012 at numerous institutions, primarily NYU Graduate Center of Advanced Digital Applications (2005-2012), and certified Apple Authorized Training Centers (Final Cut Pro, Motion ACT). She has been Ken Jacobs’ editor/colorist at Big Commotion Pictures, LLC since 2001.
