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[english] Nicole L’Huillier (b. 1985) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher from Santiago, Chile. Her practice centers on exploring sounds and vibrations as construction materials to delve into questions of agency, identity, collectivity, and the activation of a vibrational imagination. Her work materializes through installations, sonic/vibrational sculptures, custom-made (listening and/or sounding) apparatuses, performances, experimental compositions, membranal poems, and writing. She holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts & Sciences from MIT (2022). Her work has been recently shown at Transmediale, Sonic Acts, Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Ural Industrial Biennial, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MAC, Bienal de Artes Mediales, Venice Architecture Biennale, and Ars Electronica, among others.

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[castellano] Nicole L’Huillier  (1985), artista e investigadora transdisciplinar de Santiago, Chile. Su práctica se centra en la exploración de sonidos y vibraciones como materiales de construcción para ahondar en cuestiones de agencia, identidad, colectividad y la activación de una imaginación vibracional. Su trabajo se materializa por medio de instalaciones, esculturas sónicas/vibrantes, la creación de dispositivos (de escucha y/o difusión sonora) propios, performances, composiciones experimentales, poemas membranales y la escritura. Es doctora en Artes Mediales y Ciencias por MIT (2022). Su trabajo se ha exhibido recientemente en Transmediale, Sonic Acts, Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Ural Industrial Biennial, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MAC, Bienal de Artes Mediales, Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia y Ars Electronica, entre otros.

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Exhibiting

2023   Resonaciones, exhibition with Francisca Gili, curated by Bettina Korintenberg and Carolina Arevalo, guided by Karen Urcia, ifa Gallery Stuttgart (Germany), Bienal de Artes Mediales (Chile).

2023   La Orejona (XS), Postscript of Silence exhibition, curated by Iris Long and Sam Shiyi Qian, Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM), Shanghai, China. 

2023   Leche Holográfica, in collaboration with Patricia Dominguez, Viscosidades exhibition, Centro Nave, Bienal de Arte Mediales, Santiago, Chile.

2023   Leche Holográfica, in collaboration with Patricia Dominguez, Ether’s Bloom exhibition, curated by Clara Meister, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany. 

2023   Difusiones (listening session), for the opening of Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims exhibition by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman, curated by Andrea Popelka, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria.

2023   Semilla and Semilla Manual, Rescalling the World exhibition, curated by Po-Hao Chi, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (clab), Taipei, Taiwan.

2023   Cuchicheos Fragmento, Overflows exhibition, curated by Lisa Wintermantel, Tonia Steppacher, and Alejandra Atalah, Durchgang Galeria, Basel, Switzerland.

2023   Semilla, The Sound of Scape exhibition, curated by Collective Rewilding, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia.

2023   La Orejona Records, Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2023   Coro, exhibition with Constanza Alarcón Tennen, curated by Maya Hayda, PS122 Gallery, New York, US.

2022   La Orejona Records, Transmediale, Akademia del Künste (ADK), Berlin, Germany.

2022   Cuchicheos and Semilla, Inner Ear(th) exhibition, Sonic Acts Biennial, Het HEM, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2022  Cuchicheos, State and Nature exhibition, kunsthalle baden-baden, Baden-Baden, Germany

2022   Leche Holográfica, in collaboration with Patricia Dominguez, Images Festival, Toronto, curated by AXIS (Noor Alé y Claudia Mattos), Toronto, Canada.

2022   The Fallen Cloud, in collaboration with: Josefina Buschmann, Daniela Camino, Francisca Sáez y Melisa Miranda, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria.

2022   Delira, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (MAC), Santiago, Chile.

2022   Leche Holográfica, in collaboration with Patricia Dominguez, Transmediale, Symposium “This is Not Anarchy, This is Chaos”, HKW and online, Berlin, Germany.

2022   Naves – Nampülwangulenfe/Mapunauta, in collaboration with Daniela Catrileo, Toda La Teoría Del Universo: Eterno Retorno, curated by Elisa Balmaceda, Concepción, Chile.

2022   Plasmástica Fantástica, Radio Amnion: Sonic Transmissions of Care in Oceanic Space, curated by Jol Thoms.

2022   Leche Holográfica, in collaboration with Patricia Dominguez, “Rêver le plurivers”, Performative Lecture Cycle curated by NOMASMETAFORAS (Julian Dupont and Clara Melniczuk), Maison de L’Amerique Latine, Paris, France.

2022   Semilla Manual, Bienal Artes Mediales, MIAAU, “El concilio de los sueños” exhibition, Santiago, Chile.

2021   Mis Orejas, Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Adnan Yildiz, Çağla Ilk, and Assaf Kimmel, Ekaterinburg, Russia. 

2021   Semilla, Bienal Artes Mediales, Bosque Museo exhibition, curated by Enrique Rivera, Santiago, Chile.

2021   Semilla Manual, Novas Frequencias, Onde Agora? exhibition, curated by Chico Dub, São Paulo, Brasil.

2021   Ausencias, Brownie Project, #TGIF – Thank God It’s Fungible exhibition, curated by Xueer La, Shanghai, China.

2021   Mis Orejas, exhibition It Isn’t Happening Festival, curated by Michael Akstaller and Alexandra Hojenski, Nuremberg.

2021   Leche Holográfica, in collaboration with Patricia Dominguez, exhibition On The Way To Healing, curated by Manuela Reyes Restrepo and Steven Henry Madoff, IDB, Washington, United States.

2021   Vessels Uno a Diez and Nampülwangulenfe/Mapunauta, in collaboration with Daniela Catrileo, virtual exhibition Other Skies: Exoplanetary Dust, curated by SciArt Initiative and CLOT Magazine.

2020   Radio Eclipse, Tsonami  Festival de Arte Sonoro, Valparaiso, Chile.

2020   The Dancer, exhibition Spacetime (x, y, z + t), Emerson Contemporary, Media Art Gallery, Boston, United States.

2019   El Canto de la Lira Rota, exhibition Los Cielos, Congreso Internacional “Los Cielos”,UNSAM, Instituto de Artes Mauricio Kagel, Centro de Arte y Ciencia, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2019   Delira, exhibition El Tercer Paisaje, Bienal de Artes Mediales, El Cuarto Mundo, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.

2019   Serpiente Delirante, Opening performance for Bienal de Artes Mediales, El Cuarto Mundo,  with Nia de Indias, La Chimuchina, and friends, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.

2019   Telemetrons, in collaboration with Sands Fish, part of  Space Exploration Initiative exhibition at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria

2019   Futurity Island in collaboration with Gediminas & Nomeda Urbonas, and Indre Umbrasaite, Cambridge, MA, United States.

2019   Swamp School 2.0 / Pelkių mokykla, Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.

2018   Tardigrade Radio, Group exhibition with POLAR team, Festival Tsonami, Arte sonoro, Valparaiso, Chile

2018   The Work of Wind public art exhibition, Futurity Island in collaboration with Gediminas & Nomeda Urbonas, and Indre Umbrasaite, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2018   Telemetron, A glitch in the stars, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria

2018   Nampülwangulenfe / Mapunauta, sonic poem and sound installation in collaboration with Daniela Catrileo for Festival Poesía y Música, Santiago, Chile

2018   Diastrophisms – Siggraph Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2018   Telemetron – exhibition with The Zero Gravity Band at Sónar Festival, Barcelona, Spain

2018   Hybrid Radio – exhibition Swamp School, Lithuanian Pavilion, curated by Nomeda and Gedinimas Urbonas, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy

2018   Tardigrade Radio – group exhibition “In our present condition” Gallery 9. MIT, Cambridge, USA

2018   Diastrofismos – solo show Wiesner Gallery MIT, in collaboration with Yasushi Sakai and Thomas Sanchez Lengeling, Cambridge, USA

2017   Diastrofismos, in collaboration with Yasushi Sakai and Thomas Sanchez Lengeling, 13th Media Arts Bienal Chile, Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporaneo Cerrillos, Chile.

2013   Participatory City 100 Urban Trends – Guggenheim Museum, BMW Guggenheim Lab, NYC, done with SUSUKA Architects Company, New York, USA

2013   Incomplete Works – Sao Paulo Architecture Biennial, SESC Pompeia, done with Supersudaca, Sao Paulo, Brasil

Education

2022 Ph.D. in Media Arts & Sciences, MIT, Media Lab, Cambridge, United States. 

2017 Master in Media Arts & Sciences, MIT, Media Lab, Cambridge, Unites States.

2010 Architecture Degree and License obtained with Maximum Distinction, Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (FAU), Santiago,  Chile.

Residencies

2023 La Becque Residency, Vevey, Switzerland.

2022 Transmediale Residency, Berlin, Germany. 

2019 SIMETRIA prize, for Artist Residency at CERN (Switzerland), ALMA and Paranal Observatories (Atacama Desert, Chile).

Awards and Recognitions

2020 First Prize, MIT Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts.

2020 DAAD Artist in Berlin Program, short-term fellowship for Transnational Sound Initiative (TSI).

2017-22  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Full Scholarship for Ph.D. in Media Arts & Sciences at MIT Media Lab.

2017 Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT) Grant.

2015-17 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Full Scholarship for Master in Media Arts & Sciences at MIT Media Lab.

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