About Nicolas Bernier
Born : Ottawa, Canada, 1977
Residence: Montréal, Québec
Nicolas Bernier creates audiovisual performances and installations aiming to carve a dialogue between sound and tangible matter.
Shaped by his work within the fields of cinema, literature, dance and theatre companies, his own language blends together elements of music, photography, design, science, video art, architecture, light design and scenography.
In the midst of this eclecticism, his artistic concerns remain constant: the balance between the cerebral and the sensual, and between organic sources and digital processing.
Awardee of the prestigious Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2013 (Austria), his work is widely recognized, presented all over the world: SONAR (Spain), Mutek (Canada), Elektra (Canada), ZKM (Germany), Transmediale (Germany) and LABoral (Spain) to name a few.
His sound compositions are widely published on electronic music labels: 901 Editions (Italy), LINE (US), leerraum (Switzerland), Entr’acte (UK) and empreintes DIGITALes (Québec).
He holds a PhD in sonic arts from the University of Huddersfield (UK). He is a member of Perte de signal, CIRMMT and Hexagram media arts research and development centres based in Montreal. He is teaching in the Digital Music program of the Université de Montréal.
"One of the most interesting and sophisticated artists in the contemporary scenario" - Digicult, IT
