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Emily W. Bernstein

Interdisciplinary artist



My practice explores the boundaries between authenticity, artificiality, and memory, and the challenges of remembering the past in an era shaped by digital mediation. I use a blend of analogue and digital media to navigate the instability of collective and personal memory, and to explore how generative processes can model absence and fabricate doubt.



Through immersive installations, objects, and creative nonfiction writing, I experiment with finding new ways of making the past legible, while also questioning our role in narrating it. My projects have ranged from reconstructing fragmented diasporic histories to revoicing the testimony of a dementia patient.





AWARDS & PUBLICITY



  • Arts Thread, Global Creative Graduate Showcase (shortlisted)

  • Galerie Ron Mandos, Best of Graduates 2024 (selected artist)

  • Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Thesis selected by faculty for presentation (DOGtime Unstable Media)

EDUCATION

I hold degrees in Unstable Media from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (2019-2024), as well as a Research MA in Linguistics from Leiden Univeristy (2016-2018). Prior to this, I studied Spanish and Russian at New York University.

Before beginning my artistic studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, I worked as a research assistant and university lecturer, where my research into the potential applications of artificial intelligence in speech and hearing clinics would later influence my artistic research and practice.



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RESEARCH / TALKS / PRESENTATIONS

  • CODE 2026: Re-designing digital realities, with Raluca-Antonia Dragonici and Livia Ribichini, CPDP 2026 Conference, Brussels, Belgium

  • Selected participant CODE 2026 program, IMPAKT, Utrecht (NL)

  • Otherwise Dataset Research Group - Collective Performance by Sara Pezzolesi with: Emily W. Bernstein, Nicolas Dagieu, Olesia Gerasimenko, OT301, Amsterdam (2025-ongoing)

  • Unfold: Nan Hoover, Writing the light, LI-MA, Amsterdam (2021)

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PUBLISHED & UNPUBLISHED TEXTS

  • Otherwise Dataset Research Group - collective publication (contributor), presented at 4bid Gallery, Amsterdam (February 2026)

  • Trigger Warning: We Must All Become Angels - Artificial Repair and Sacred Witnessing in AI Art (Selected Thesis for DOGtime Unstable Media Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2024)

  • Returning to Fuji in 2020, publication presented at LI-MA Amsterdam (2021)

  • Minthe, contribution in collective publication The Pandemic Cookbook (2020)

  • Love Letters to Strangers (manuscript)

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EXHIBITIONS 

2026
  • The Fire We Keep, Sigarenfabriek, Delft 

  • Otherwise Dataset Collective Performance “Sotto Voce” - 4bid Gallery, Amsterdam

  • Movement, ams.dessta x OFFO at Chassé Dance Studios, Amsterdam

2025
  • Movement, ams.dessta x OFFO at Chassé Dance Studios, Amsterdam

2024
  • After 77 Days, Haagsche Kopjes, The Hague

  • Best of Graduates 2024, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam

  • Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show, Amsterdam

2023
  • Si.si.spex 13, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam

2022
  • We are already gone, Sissi’s, Amsterdam

2021
  • DOGtime 3 exhibition, ISO Amsterdam, Amsterdam

2020
  • Unfold: Nan Hoover, Writing the light, LI-MA, Amsterdam (online)

  • DOGtime 2 exhibition, Galerie de Orangerie, Amsterdam

2019
  • DOGtime exhibition, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
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