Arts Thread

Emily Bernstein is a multimedia artist based in The Hague, specializing in AI art and installation art. A graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie’s “DOGtime Unstable Media” program (2024), Emily’s work explores the boundaries of authenticity, artificiality and memory, and the particular challenges of remembering the past within our digital era. She uses a blend of analogue, digital and artificial media to navigate the instability of collective memory and the biographical/documentary genre, and to discover how historical traumas can be healed by artificial means.Through immersive installations, moving image, jewelry making and creative nonfiction writing, Emily experiments with finding new ways of paying homage to the past, while also questioning our role in narrating it. Her previous projects have ranged from artificial reconstructions of lost communities, to recovering and revoicing the memories of a dementia patient.Prior to beginning her artistic career, Emily worked as a researcher and lecturer in linguistics, which significantly shaped her approach to artistic research and art making. She holds a Research MA in Linguistics from Leiden University, where together with a team of linguists she investigated innovative applications for AI in speech and hearing clinics.Born in Washington, D.C. in 1990, Emily has lived and worked in seven countries, eventually settling permanently in the Netherlands where she regularly participates in independently organized group exhibitions. She has presented her work at public venues, as well as renowned media art and research foundations, such as LI-MA.