Nick Briz

Nick Briz is an internationally recognized new-media artist, educator and organizer based in Chicago, IL. His work focuses on digital culture by investigating the promises and perils of living in an increasingly digital and networked world. He is an active participant in various online communities and conversations including glitch art, net art, remix culture, digital rights, Internet ecology and digital literacy.

His work has been exhibited internationally at major festivals such as FILE Media Arts Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the Images Festival in Toronto Canada, as well as major cultural institutions such as the Museum of Moving Image in New York City, the Museo De Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Tate Exchange in London, among others. His work has been reviewed and discussed in international print publications and online platforms such as Neural Magazine (Bari, Italy), Rhizome.org (NYC) and Furtherfield (London) which are among the most influential in the field of New Media Art, as well as in traditional news outlets such as the Boston Globe, El Mundo (Spain), El Espectador (Colombia), and in an array of art and design publications including VICE, Fast Company, Art Slant and Complex.

He is Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as the Chief Creative Director of the digital agency Branger_Briz, a collective of artists, strategists, educators and programmers specializing in conceiving and developing custom innovative digital projects for a wide range of clients. As an organizer he has been invited to curate events at various international galleries and conferences, he co-founded and ran an international New Media Art conference called GLI.TC/H (2010-2012), co-ran an experimental performance series in Chicago called NO-MEDIA (2012-2016), and is currently co-organizing a lecture series called d.r.e.a.m. (data rules everything around me).