Digital arts
Internationally recognized for the «frequencies» series, Bernier’s installations and performances have been touring major events and museums all over the world for more than 2 decades. Meticulously blending sound with light, mechanical devices, sculptures and video, Bernier’s own sonic and visual artistic research spanned over 20 years.
Video documentation archives : https://vimeo.com/nicolasbernier
Les formes flottantes
2025
Video : performance or fixed
Collab: Myriam Boucher
To show heavy objects as if they could float.
To find a poetic of geometry in concrete.
To move or dance within inescapability.
Visions couleur (performance)
2024
Performance
🌎 On tour: France, Jan. 21st 2026
VISIONS COULEURS is a performance for solo synthesizer and colors where the sonic parameters are mapped colors thanks to a audioreactive video program. The project proposes an experience of non-stop bursts of sounds and vivid colors, comprovised in real-time on a modular synthesizer.
2014
Sound & light installation
🏛️ ZKM: showing until may 2028
🏛️ ZKM & MNBAQ Collections
frequencies (light quanta)
100 aleatoric sound and light fragments generating tridimensional patterns by superimposing 100 transparent laser cut acrylic panels. A metaphorical allegory on relationships between quantum physics principles applied to audiovisuality: particles, probabilities, wave/particle duality and discontinuity.
Art available for acquisition
frequencies (a / silence)
2017
Tuning forks, concrete, acrylic
106 cm (W) x 61 cm (L) x 2.54 cm (D)
Price : 5 000 € + shipping
This 3D canvas was the last work in Nicolas Bernier’s well know series of work on the tuning forks. After he gave away his tuning fork collection to fans around the world, these last ones, once casted in concrete, forced him to move his artistic research to other territories.
Archives
Over 20 years of artistic research
Ensemble d’oscillateurs
Oscillator and synthesizer ensemble
🏆 Prix Ars Electronica 2021, Honorary Mention to Maxime Corbeil-Perron and his piece [RE]:GENERATIV.
👁️ https://vimeo.com/228616947?fl=pl&fe=sh
Ongoing
Visions couleurs
Three abstract videos
🏆 Long list, Aesthetica Art Prize 2025
👁️ https://vimeo.com/228616947?fl=pl&fe=sh
2024
Visions couleurs (performance)
Audiovisual performance with audio reactive video and modular synth
👁️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGL8x5IqH7c
2024
Transfert (299 792 458 M/S)
Sound and light performance
🏆 Finalist, Arte Laguna Prize 2018
👁️ https://vimeo.com/242128789
2017
Parallèle(299 792 458 M/S)
Sound and light environment in urban landscape
👁️ https://vimeo.com/225771629
2017
Structures infinies
Sound and light objects
🏆 Finalist, COCA Art Prize 2019
🏆 Short list, Aesthetica Art Prize 2018
👁️ https://vimeo.com/217745215
2017
frequencies (a / silence)
A canvas of tuning forks casted in concrete with no sound
2017
frequencies (a / oscillation)
Sound and light experiment
🏆 Long list, Aesthetica Art Prize 2017
🏛️ Collection Galerie de l'Université de Montréal
👁️ https://vimeo.com/181528654
2016
frequencies (a / friction)
Sound and light experiment
🏛️ Collection Espace Gantner France
👁️ https://vimeo.com/124928740
2015
frequencies (a / archives)
Sound and light object
🏛️ Available for acquisition
👁️ https://vimeo.com/113842840
2014
frequencies (light quanta)
Sound and light installation
🏆 Short list, Aesthetica Art Prize 2016
🏛️ Collection, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
🏛️ Collection, ZKM, Center for media art
👁️ https://vimeo.com/104745321
2014
frequencies (synthetic variations)
Sound and light performance
🏆 Feta Prize in Sound Art 2014
👁️ https://vimeo.com/63599914
2013
frequencies (a)
Sound and light performance
🏆 Golden Nica, Prix Ars Electronica 2013
👁️ https://vimeo.com/48493242
2012
frequencies (composition no.1)
Photomontage
🏛️ Available for acquisition
2011
L’usure du clocher
Sound sculpture
👁️ https://vimeo.com/22717794
2011
Boîte.
Sound performance
👁️ https://vimeo.com/4699613
2008
Les arbres
Audiovisual performance
🏆 Mention, Prix Ars Electronica 2009
🏆 Prix Opus, CD of the year 2010
👁️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34mVDZeBSQo
2008
Collaborative projects
Music for Standard Oscillator Ensemble
Text score
With Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard
2019
Rachel 60
Music for 10 oscillators and barytone saxophone
With Ida Toninato
2019
Machine_Variation
Sound performance
With Martin Messier & Jonathan Villeneuve
👁️ https://vimeo.com/95706212
2014
Micro_Mouvement
Music for 4 microphones, siren organ and electronics
With Jean-François Laporte
2014
La chambre des machines
Sound performance with intonarumori
With Martin Messier and Alexandre Landry
🏆 Mention, Prix Ars Electronica 2011
🏆 Jury Selection, Japan Media Awards 2011
👁️ https://vimeo.com/8816403
2010
BOLD
Audio art ensemble
With Alexis Bellavance and Érick d'Orion
2008
2011
Courant.air
Music for folk acoustic guitar, surround sounds and live electronics
With Simon Trottier and Alexandre Landry
👁️ https://vimeo.com/16736608
2010
SUB•A•QUAT•IC
Underwater audiovisual installation
With Delphine Measroch
👁️ https://vimeo.com/4700355
2005
Le microsillon des vagues
Audiovisual performance
With Delphine Measroch
👁️ https://vimeo.com/4948029
2005
Phantom (1651)
Music for hardanger fiddle, electronics and video
With Britt Pernille Frøholm and U9
👁️ https://vimeo.com/7183649
2006
Treelogy
Three video-eulogy to nature and imperceptible movement
With Delphine Measroch
Treelogy I : She Under A Sherrington Tree (2004) 8'
Treelogy II : This is a Portrait (2005) 8'
Treelogy III : Orchid (2005) 3'30
🏆 Nomination, Qwartz 2009, Treelogy III
🏆 Prize, Visionaria 2005, Treelogy II
🏆 1st prize, Visionaria 2004, Treelogy I
🏆 Best Video Art, Chicago Motion Graphic 2004, Trelogy I
👁️ Treelogy I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bsBVC0pcb0
👁️ Treelogy II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34mVDZeBSQo
👁️ Treelogy III https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bsBVC0pcb0
2004
2005