Eric Berger

(Austria, 1969)

Digital artist, researcher and curator. Trained in Communications Engineering and Electronics, as well as Philosophy, his interdisciplinary research delves into mechatronics and philosophy, materializing in his thesis “Epistemological Questions on Telerobotics”. In the nineties he began his artistic career; Berger explores information processes and feedback structures through installations, situations, performances and various “interfaces”. Together with the sound artist PURE he founded TERMINALBEACH. He received the electronic art award together with the Telezone-Groupo for the project “Telezone”, and has also been awarded the “Intermedium2” award, Bawarian Broadcasting Station / ZKM together with 92v2.0 for sophisticated soirée (2002); and an Honorable Mention from VIDA 5.0 Art and Artificial Life International Competition together with Laura Beloff for Spinne (2002). She was also awarded the Accelerate Finland Residency Award 2019, a programme organised with the curatorial platform Capsula.
His professional career includes work at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz and the Making Sense project – physical computing for artistic purposes. He was Artistic Director of the conference and exhibition Interface and Society at Atelier Nord in Oslo, Chief Curator of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón) and Chief Curator of Laboral CACI. He is currently the director of the Bioart Society in Helsinki.