BS, New Jersey Institute of Technology. MFA, Rhode Island School of Design. Sobers is an artist specializing in sculpture, sound, creative coding, new media, and multi-disciplinary work. Sobers’ work has been exhibited nationally, including recent group exhibitions at Below Grand (New York, NY), Black Brick Project (Brooklyn, NY), and Field of Play (Brooklyn, NY). She has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at Nonfinito (New York, NY), Wallplay: On Canal (New York, NY), University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery (Pittsburgh, PA), and AS220 (Providence, RI). Her sound-based performances have been featured at venues such as Knockdown Center, Rubin Museum, and Wallplay, and she has created temporary public artworks with organizations including ChaNorth, Alloy Pittsburgh, Cherry Blossoms in Winter and the I-195 Redevelopment Commission. She has been awarded artist residencies at I-Park, KinoSaito, The Cooper Union, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and received grants from The Puffin Foundation and City Artist Corps. SLC, 2026–
Previous Courses
Visual and Studio Arts
New Genres: Electronic Studio
Open, Studio—Year
ARTS 3353
This course will be a hands-on, project-based studio that explores special topics in art and technology, asking what “electronic” can be as an artistic medium. Students will experiment with digital and electronic tools as systems and ways of organizing images, stories, bodies, sounds, and spaces. Workshops will introduce concepts such as interactive web narratives, creative coding, image archive systems, interactive systems, sound, sensors, machine learning, augmented reality (AR), and 3D or spatial media. Through short assignments and larger projects, students will combine these skills to develop work rooted in their own questions and interests. The goal is the ability to think fluidly across tools and make strong artistic decisions with electronic media. The course will culminate in one comprehensive yearlong installation that brings together technical experimentation, artistic research, and expanded studio practice.
Faculty
New Genres: Natural Signals: Art, Ecology, and Digital Translation
Open, Concept—Spring
ARTS 3375
This course will explore how artists use digital tools and ecological observation to translate the natural world into images, sounds, systems, and experiences. Students will consider nature as a source of patterns, signals, rhythms, structures, and forms of intelligence, while asking how technology changes what we notice, measure, imagine, and represent. Through readings, screenings, discussions, field observation, and short studio exercises, students will examine artists working with environmental data, field recording, mapping, sound, simulation, projection, responsive systems, and speculative ecological narratives. Projects may include sound walks, visual field notes, digital collages, diagrams, maps, scores, or proposals for interactive and immersive works. Over the semester, students will build a personal archive of ecological research and develop a final project or proposal that translates a natural phenomenon through artistic, digital, or electronic means.