Founded in 2008, NEF is the collaborative duo of David and Tara Gladden. Our work includes live cinema performance, audio-visual installation, sound art, recording, animation and public art projects. Explorations are interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional often combining opposing elements and concepts in contexts that vary from project to project. Our work sometimes includes additional collaborators. We are concerned with the incongruity between perception and reality and processes that lead to artistic, personal and collective metamorphoses.
David and Tara Gladden both hold MFAs from Brooklyn College in Performance and Interactive Media Arts, the only program in the country devoted to interdisciplinary collaboration, integrating technology into the creative process. David is a video/ integrated media artist, musician/composer, writer and an Adjunct Professor of Art at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Tara is a singer/composer/improviser, sound/integrated media artist and yoga instructor working privately and with Alzheimer’s patients. She is also a Lecturer in the Music Department at Salisbury University and Interim Galleries Coordinator for the University Galleries at Salisbury University.