Into Another Dimension: Art Installations find Fertile Ground in Science Centers
JULIA KLEIN, NEW YORK TIMES, MARCH 17, 2009
“Museums seek out artists precisely because they want mystery, elegance, meaning,” Mr. Snibbe said. “Ultimately, we all want communication and magic.”
Don’t Just Stand There
BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY, JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2009
“Snibbe’s goal is ‘to make a medium as emotionally engaging as a movie, but one in which you remain aware of your body and your relationship to others’—in other words, he says, ‘to communicate a vision of the world where people understand that we are all interdependent.’ “
Interactive works capture interplay of shadows, light
CATE MCQUAID, BOSTON GLOBE, JUNE 24, 2005
“The entire body of work takes you through a journey of fracturing and mending, but it feels electrically charged and iconic.”
Art That Puts You in the Picture, Like It or Not
SARAH BOXER, NEW YORK TIMES, APRIL 27, 2005
“Hooray! Here’s a machine that is not your enemy or your superior.”
Spark #301: Scott Snibbe
DOCUMENTARY. PREMIERED JANUARY 19, 2005 KQED, SAN FRANCISCO
“What sets Scott Snibbe apart from his generation is that his work is very humorous, clever and sweet.”
Scott Snibbe at UC Irvine’s Beall Center
COLLETTE CHATTOPADHYAY, ARTWEEK, FEBRUARY, 2004
“Scott Snibbe is a trickster in the grand tradition of Marcel Duchamp.”
Shedding a light on art: Cinematographer and artist Scott Snibbe creates art without boundaries
ROBERTA CARASSO, IRVINE WORLD NEWS, NOVEMBER 20, 2003
“Ideas are the stuff of Conceptual Art and Snibbe’s work. Add to this equation that light, a physical component one uses daily and refers to in spiritual terms, has become a viable artistic element within current works of art.”
Secrets of Digital Creativity Revealed in Miniatures
NEW YORK TIMES, SEPTEMBER 16, 2002
“Mr. Snibbe’s work is a minimalist take on chaos theory.”
New Frontiers
BYRON CLERCX, SPLASH MAGAZINE. WINTER, 2002
“With interactive work you have to engage it on the playing field of the body; and the body thinks differently from the mind.”
Better Living through Chemistry
SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER, NOVEMBER 8, 2001
“He’s drawn to the idea of the self being illusory and of existence being defined instead by interactions with our environment.”
Screen Savers as Artists’ Medium
NEW YORK TIMES, NOVEMBER 23, 2000
“Mr. Buckhouse said the relentless energy of screensavers drew him to the medium but that he now appreciates such unhurried offerings as Scott Snibbe’s ‘Emptiness is Form,’ in which a human shape emerges from a grid of twitching dots.”
Ones to Watch
INTERVIEW MAGAZINE, APRIL 2000
“Snibbe transforms research on social behavior and natural dynamic functions into engaging, visually comprehensive experiences.”