(Born Austria, 1969)

Erich Berger is an artist and independent researcher currently living and working in Porvoo/Finland. He has a background in communication engineering, mechatronic and philosophy.

In his artwork Berger is interested in information processes and feedback structures which he investigates with installations, situations, performancesand various interfaces. His work is shown internationally in media-festivals, exhibitions and galleries.

Together with the sound artist PURE he founded the audio visual impro- duo TERMINALBEACH. He received a Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction together with the Telezone Group for the project TELZONE (2000); the Intermedium2 Award, Bawarian Broadcasting Station / ZKM together with 92v2.0 for a sophisticated soiree (2002); and an Honorary Mention from VIDA 5.0 Art and Artificial Life International Competition together with Laura Beloff for Spinne (2002).

Berger directed the Making Sense project -physical computing for artistic purpose and was Artistic Director of the Interface and Society conference and exhibition at Atelier Nord in Oslo.