[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 shown at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2024), Kunsthalle Bern (2024), Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM), Shanghai (2023), ifa-Gallery Stuttgart (2023), Bienal de Artes Mediales Santiago (2023, 2021, 2019, 2017), Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2022), Transmediale, Berlin (2022), Ars Electronica, Linz (2022, 2019, 2018), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Santiago de Chile (2022), 6th Ural Industrial Biennale, Ekaterinburg (2021), and 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2018), 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 abordarpreguntas en torno a 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), performances, composiciones experimentales, poemas membranales y la escritura. Es doctora en Artes Mediales y Ciencias por MIT (2022). Su trabajo se ha exhibido en la 60ª Exhibición Internacional de Arte – La Biennale di Venezia (2024), Kunsthalle Bern (2024), Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM), Shanghai (2023), ifa-Gallery Stuttgart (2023), Bienal de Artes Mediales Santiago (2023, 2021, 2019, 2017), Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2022), Transmediale, Berlin (2022), Ars Electronica, Linz (2022, 2019, 2018), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Santiago de Chile (2022), 6th Ural Industrial Biennale, Ekaterinburg (2021), and 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2018), entre otros.
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Exhibiting
2024 Thresholds, German Pavilion, 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2024, curated by Cagla Ilk, Venice, La Certosa, (Italy).
2024 Orejona (XS), exhibition Tools for Change, curated by Julia Kaganskiy, HEK (Haus der Elektronischen Künste), Basel (Switzerland).
2024 Orejona (XS), The Mountain Algorithms exhibition, curated by Esther Lu and Carolina Castro Jorquera, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan).
2024 Cuchiches (Stereo), exhibition Virada Sônica – A escalada do som na arte contemporânea, curated by Chico Dub, Farol Santander, São Paulo (Brasil).
2024 Colunnas, in collaboration with Samuel Perea-Díaz, Concrete Dreams of Sound exhibition, curated by Gascia Ouzounian, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, (Germany).
2024 Cuchicheos, SúnPoíēsis exhibition, curated by Sabina Oroshi, Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria in Pula, (Croatia).
2024 Naves – Nampülwangulenfe / Mapunauta, in collaboration with Daniela Catrileo, Punya 2.0 exhibition, curated by Kabelo Malatsie, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland.
2024 Cuchicheos, SúnPoíēsis exhibition, curated by Sabina Oroshi, Kunsthalle Trier (Germany).
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.