Nicolas Bernier
Born : Ottawa, Canada, 1977
Residence: Montreal, Quebec
Nicolas Bernier creates audiovisual performances and installations, musique concrete, live electronics improvisations and video art while also working with dance, theatre, moving images and within interdisciplinary contexts.
In the midst of this eclecticism, his artistic concerns remain constant: the balance between the cerebral and the sensual, and between organic sound sources and digital processing.
Awardee of the prestigious Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2013 (Austria), hiswork have been presented in major events and venues like SONAR (Spain), Mutek (Canada), DotMov Festival (Japan), ZKM (Germany), Transmediale (Germany) and LABoral (Spain) to name a few. His sound compositions are widely published on electronic music labels: Crónica (Portugal), LINE (US), leerraum (Switzerland), Entreacte (UK) and empreintes DIGITALes (Quebec).
He holds a PhD in sonic arts from the University of Huddersfield (UK). He his a member of Perte de signal, a media arts research and development centre based in Montreal. He his teaching in the Digital Music program of the University de Montreal.