Róisín Berg is a new-media artist and educator based in Limerick, Ireland. Their practice takes an experimental approach to technologies, with a focus on appropriating digital systems such as machine learning algorithms, kinetic hardware, and generative systems, challenging their traditional uses and deconstructing the hidden power structures associated with them. Berg’s work explores the use of both interactive and autonomous systems and combines these with lens-based and sculptural media to stage philosophical engagements between viewer and artworks, aiming to generate new understandings of our relationships to the self, each other, technology and the planet. Berg has exhibited both locally and internationally, adapting their work to a diverse range of contexts including galleries, academic spaces, festivals, corporate spaces, and club-night events.
Since 2016, Berg has worked as a creative media technologist and experiential designer for live events, developing expertise in stage design and associated technologies, including projection mapping, audio engineering, and lighting design. This work has provided them with opportunities to collaborate with creatives from various disciplines on installation and performance pieces, fostering a strong passion for interdisciplinary work.
Berg holds a Master’s in Art and Technology from the University of Limerick and has been teaching in the Computer Science and Information Systems department for the past four years. They lead modules in the creative media programs, such as Creative Coding, Time-Based Media, and Performance Technology.
In addition to their artistic and educational endeavours, Berg runs an Irish new-media art organisation called Concept NULL. This is a community project with an aim to create a repository of all artists in Ireland who identify part or all of their practice as new-media art, and to ‘join the dots’ between all the individuals and groups in Ireland who have been working, making and establishing this area over the last few decades in Ireland. The organisation hosts meetups throughout Ireland and releases a newsletter twice a month.