BIOGRAPHY

Sabine Gruffat is a digital media artist living and working in Madison, WI. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Currently Sabine is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Sabine's films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide including the Image Forum Festival in Japan, the Split Film Festival in Croatia, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the PDX Film Festival in Portland OR, the Dallas Video Festival, Migrating Forms in New York, The Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, and The Gramercy Theater in New York.

Her photographs and installations have been shown at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Art In General, Devotion Gallery, PS1 Contemporary Art Museum, and Hudson Franklin in New York, Brissot-Linz Gallery in Paris,and the Centro Cultural Telemar in Brazil.

Sabine Gruffat has also co-directed several films and videos with filmmaker Ben Russell and has been on bicycle and film tours across France and Switzerland (La Cyclocinematheque) with filmmaker Bill Brown. She hasperformed as the Free Translators with Mary Billyou.

Currently she is working on a feature film about Dubai and Detroit, performing with Bill Brown in TIME MACHINE, and developing mobile media applications for iPhone.