Antoine Bertin is a european artist working at the intersection of science and sensory immersion, field recording and sound storytelling, data and music composition. His creations take the form of listening experiences, immersive moments and audio meditations exploring our relationships with the living world. His work has been presented at Tate Britain, Palais de Tokyo, Serpentine Gallery, KIKK festival, STRP festival, Sonar+D, CCCB Barcelona, Dutch Design Week, Nuit Blanche Paris, le 104, Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Gaité Lyrique. He produces a quarterly show called “Edge of the forest” on NTS radio weaving together field recordings, data sonifications and science inspired meditations. In 2024, he began a practice-based PhD with ZHdK’s Interfacing the Ocean group, researching underwater soundscapes and fish communication in the Mediterranean. His thesis investigates how artistic experiences can foster sustainable connections between humans and marine life.
Studio Antoine Bertin was created in 2018, bringing together a multidisciplinary team that develops, produces and delivers listening experiences. Studio Antoine Bertin is based in Paris and Alicudi Island (see studios) and works internationally.
Exhibitions
2025
555hz - creation - UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts Karlsruhe - ongoing
Selected for the AGORA Grant - An immersive journey into indigenous and local knowledge about biodiversity - ongoing
A Fish Heart - Installation for Symbiosium exhibition - Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris - 2025
A Fish Heart - Sentiment Océanique exhibition - COAL, Nice (in the frame of United Nations Ocean Conference) - 2025
Conversation Métabolite - Installation at Becoming Ocean - Villa Arson, Nice (in the frame of UNOC) - 2025
Conversation Métabolite - Installation at La Grande Expédition - Le CENTQUATRE, Paris - 2025
Phytoplanktonic Conversation - Installation for We are the Ocean- Alliance Française of Madras, India 2025
2024
Aquatic Conversations - work-in-progress showing at CurieuCity Festival in P.A.R.T.S, Bruxelles - 2024
Making All Voices of the City Heard - Art & Science project in the frame of S+T+ARTS AIR Residency Program - 2024
I Inspire the Air That a Machine Expires - creation in situ at Second Souffle 9-9bis, Lille - 2024
Conversation Métabolite - Installation at Sferik museum - Tulum, Mexico - 2024
Conversation Métabolite - Installation at Artinvita Festival, Abruzzo (IT) - 2024
2023
Winner of the Sferik Award for The Bat Cloud - Art Basel Miami - 2023
Voices of Tiny Gods - Installation in situ - Symbiosium exhibition - Fondation Fiminco - 2023
Sound Designer for Sound Earth Legacy - Since 2022 - On Going
Planktonic Conversations (EP) - independant release
2022
Conversation Métabolite - Installation - Biotopia Exhibition (Le Pavillon) and Dakar Biennale 2022
Le rythme de la lumière dans l’esprit du plancton - Photography and Video - Institut Français Dakar - 2022
Rituel Planctonique - performance with marine biologist Flora Vincent - Festival Culture Océans 2022
Hearing Gravity - Immersive Experience - dans le cadre de Némo – Biennale internationale des arts numériques, Le 104 - 2022
Species Counterpoint (EP). Released on Sound Earth Legacy - Barcelona
Conversation Métabolite (Installation and Performance) - L’océan un monde à Explorer - Hydrophone - Lorient
La Source (Installation in collaboration with Romain Tardy) - Brixen Light Festival - Brixen
2021
Tara Foundation Residency - South Atlantic Ocean - 2021
The Human Burrow - Permanent Installation at Kielder Forest - Kielder Art and Architecture - 2021
Species Counterpoint - Dutch Design Week - 2021
La Polyrythmie des Cachalots - Festival Les Ailleurs Gaité Lyrique - 2021
Play a Kandinsky (Online Experience) with Centre Pompidou and Google Arts - 2021
Maybe some of us will listen to this (Video) - Carte Blanche for Brognon-Rollin- MacVal -2021
333Hz (installation) - Code is Law Exhibition at CWB (Centre Wallonie Bruxelles )- Paris 2021
Species Counterpoint (Installation) - Dutch Design Week (with STRP Festival) - Eindhoven
Species Counterpoint (Installation) Code is Law Exhibition - Centre Wallonie Bruxelles - Paris
2020
Phonocene (Live Performance) Collaboration with Vinciane Despret and CCCB - Barcelona 2020
- Species Counterpoint (installation) - STRP Festival 2020
2019-2009
Meditation on tides and gravity - Lumen Gallery London 2019
Hearing Gravity - Kikk Festival - 2018
Protocell - La Manutention with NSDOS - Palais de Tokyo - 2018
L’arbre de Pluie - Pavillon de l’Arsenal - 2018
The Edge of The Forest - Radio Show - NTS live - since 2017
In the Ears of The Bat - Carte Blanche from Marshmallow Laser feast - Blue Dot Festival - 2016
500 years of Plants Animals - Soundwalk - Tate Britain - 2016
Detachable Ears – Participatory Installation – Tate Britain – 2015
Where do foxes come from? – Café Oto – London 2014
Des Sons du Ciel de Paris: Installation - Nuit Blanche Festival – Paris 2011
Listening Thread: Installation - Camberwell Art Festival – London - June 2010
Invisible Soundscape: Book and audio recordings - IMT Gallery – London 2009
Selected Talks
Making All Voices of Earth Heard - The Listening Affect curated by Institute for Postnatural studies
Biomimetic Listening - Kikk Festival 2023
Ecological Memes Forum - Tokyo
Rhythmic Resonance - With Merlin Sheldrake, Simonne Jones, Michel André - STRP Eindhoven
The Shape of a circle in the mind of a fish with plants - Serpentine Gallery London
Supercollider - London
Playgrounds Festival - Amsterdam
London College of Communication
ENS Louis Lumière
Kikk Galaxy Music Tech - Abattoirs de Bomel
Crossing Border Festival - The Hague
Selected Press
Radio France - La terre au Carré
Arte (7mn in)
Art + Technology (Hyundai + Bloomberg)
DesignBoom on Meditation on SARS-COV-2
The Guardian on The Edge of The Forest
L’ADN on Hearing Gravity
Libération on l’Arbre de Pluie
Creative Applications on ITEOTA