Yves Bernard

Yves Bernard is a Media Art and Digital Cultures curator and expert. His trajectory is typical of an Arts&Sciences life: his education is hybrid and interdisciplinary, comprising both architecture and computer science. For ten years, he worked as a scientific researcher: first in Computer Aided 
Architectural Design (1981-1986) at the Univeristy of Liège and later at Philips Research Laboratory Belgium, working on software engineering environments, user interface design and multimedia authoring tools (1986-1991). 
In 1994 he founded Magic Media (www.magic.be ), one of the first European new media studio specialised in art and culture projects. Magic Media produced awarded cd-roms realised for major publishers and also worked for artists such as AMVK, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Michel François, Koen Theys and Frank Theys. 
In 1999 he founded the non-profit association iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory), an arts center and media laboratory based in Brussels, dedicated to the artistic use of technologies. He was its managing and artistic director up to mid-2021. He produced various media art projects and was the curator of many exhibitions and/or festivals in Brussels, Finland and the Netherlands, such as 'CONTinENT' (2000), 'F2F' (2003), 'Infiltrations Digitales' (2004), 'openLAB' (2005), 'Art+Game' (2006), 'Hybrid World' (2007), 'Holy Fire - Art of the Digital Age' (2008), 'Kiosk - Artifacts of a Post-digital Age' (2009), 'Welcome to the Future! and Anarchronism' (2015), 'Material Want' (2016), 'Shiv Integer' (2017), 'iMAL at Work' (2019) and 'SUB' (2021). 
Yves is the (co-)author of digital artworks exploring the fusion of the physical world with the internet (such as Martini Ground Zero, OFFFCAM, The Gate) and regularly exhibited (e.g. Cinémathèque of San Francisco in 2002 and Shanghai Arts Biennial in 2010).