Niculin Barandun is a Swiss media artist, composer, producer, and performer whose practice integrates sound, visual media and code, creating spaces where technology becomes poetic rather than instrumental. Working with acoustic and electronic instruments together with time-based visuals shaped by code and data, he crafts open-ended experiences that resonate beyond their moment.

Barandun shapes sensory narratives that transform complexity into tangible, intimate, and alive experiences. His practice invites audiences to question what can be perceived — and what lies beyond — turning sound and visual media into powerful tools for reflection and sensory engagement.

He is a laureate of the Basel Media Art Prize. His work has been presented at festivals and venues worldwide, among them MUTEK Montreal, Sónar Barcelona, Rewire Festival Den Haag, Le Guess Who? Utrecht, HEK – House of Electronic Arts Basel, Mapping Festival Geneva, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. His interactive installation Neural Fiction is represented in institutional collection contexts, with one edition acquired by the Schweizerische Mobiliar art collection and another reserved for HEK — House of Electronic Arts Basel.

Selection of performances and installations

2026: «Fragile Signals», Audiovisual Performance, Projektraum M54, Basel
2026: «Intimate Shoutouts», Interdisciplinary 18-hour Performance, Cahn Contemporary, Basel
2025: «Neural Fiction», Audiovisual Installation, Group Exhibition «Other Intelligences» MU Hybrid Art House , Eindhoven
2025: «Neural Fiction», Audiovisual Installation, Group Exhibition «Andere Intelligenzen» HEK, Basel
2025: «Nice To Know You» Performance with Master’s students of «Music and Scene in Transformation», Gare du Nord, Basel
2024: «Neural Fiction», Audiovisual Installation, Mesh Festival, Basel
2024: «Neural Fiction», Audiovisual Installation, Hack The Promise Festival, Basel
2024: Jbal Rssas, Audiovisual concert with Deena Abdelwahed & Khalil Epi (Jaou, Tunis | Nuits Sonores, Lyon | Les Nuits Botaniques, Bruxelles | Sonica Festival, Ljubliana | La Gaité Lyrique, Paris | Donaufestival, Krems | La Bâtie-Festival de Genève | Electropark, Genova | Chauffer dans la noirceur, Montmartin-sur-Mer | Dnit, CaixaForum, Barcelona | Kino Přítomnost, Prague | Antipodes, Rennes)
2023: «Topia», Audiovisual concert, 316centro, Mexico City
2023: «Topia», Audiovisual concert, Son de Aqui, Oaxaca
2023: «Topia», Audiovisual concert, TVL Rec Festival, Vernacular Institute, Mexico City
2023: «Topia», Audiovisual concert, Pabellón la Carreta, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey
2023: «Topia», Audiovisual concert, Ojala Bar, Valle de Bravo, MX
2023: «Topia», Audiovisual concert, Galeria Sepia, Guadalajara
2023: «Topia», Audiovisual concert, Estado Incandescente, Mexico City
2023: «Topia», Audiovisual concert, Ciclo de Arte Sonoro, ZunZun Insular, Mexico City
2023: «Topia», Audiovisual concert, Algo Tranqui, Nadadores, Mexico City
2023: Sonidos Eclécticos Electrónicos, Veri Bari, Mexico City
2023: Jbal Rssas Audiovisual concert with Deena Abdelwahed & Khalil Epi, (Le Guess Who?-Festival, Utrecht | Future East Festival, Berlin | Mutek Festival, Montreal | Sonar Festival, Barcelona | Rewire Festival, Den Hague)
2022: Ben Kaczor & Niculin Barandun, Audiovisual concert, DA Z Digital Art Festival, Zürich
2022: «Mapping Possibilities VIII», with Deena Abdelwahed, Pro Helvetia Program, Cairo & Amman
2021: Visual Performance, Alexander Kordz & Niculin Barandun, Videoex Festival, Zürich
2020: Visual Performance with Balint Dobozi and Karima Nayt, DA Z Digital Art Festival, Zürich
2020: «Transmission~», Audiovisual Installation, Parzelle403, Basel
2020: Visual Performance with Hora Lunga (Dave Eleanor), Window of the World, St. Moritz
2019: «Transmission~», Audiovisual concert, Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome
2018: «Undiscovered», New Media Art Exhibition, Guangzhou
2018: «Mapping Possibilities VI», Pro Helvetia Jubilee Program, Cairo
2018: «Spanish footwork», collaboration with Kid Simius, Circle of Light International Festival, Moscow
2018: «Stm~ Duality», Volumens Festival Internacional de Exploración Audio & Visual, Valencia
2018: «Materialized Moments», collaboration with Natureboy Flako, Kyiv Lights Festival, Kiev
2018: «Tane», Finalist 1-minute Projection Mapping Competition, Nagasaki
2017: «The Several Ways», Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel
2017: «Rem», First prize Odessa Light Fest, Odessa
2017: «Obscure», Kyiv Lights Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
2017: Openair Zürich, Zurich
2016: «Proteios», Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel
2016: «Proteios», Royal Fish Festival, Baden
2016: «Stm~ Duality», SOUND//VISION, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam
2016: Electron Festival, Geneva
2016: m4music, Zurich
2015: Circle of Light, Moscow International Festival, Moscow
2015: «Stm~ Duality», Design Festival, Videokunstraum Progr, Bern
2015: «Stm~ Duality», Taktung Festival, Zurich
2015: m4music, Zurich
2014: «Stm~ Duality», Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, Kassel
2014: «Stm~ Duality», Circle of Light, Moscow International Festival, Moscow
2014: «Stm~ Duality», Lab1, Eindhoven
2014: «Stm~ Duality», Mapping Festival, Genf
2014: «Stm~ Duality», Telenoika Headquarters, Barcelona
2014: «Stm~ Duality», Künstlerhaus Nürnberg, Nuremberg
2013: Poolloop Festival Rote Fabrik, Zurich
2013: m4music, Zurich
2013: Centras Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania
2013: Live Performers Meeting, Rome
2012: Taktung Festival, Zurich

Educational Engagements

2026: «POP – The Day the CPU Retired (TD Point Ops)», CoCreate FHNW HGK, Basel
2024: «TouchDesigner Seminar, Creative Technology», FHNW HGK, Basel
2022: «From Idea to Project with TouchDesigner», Cairo, Egypt
2019: «Custom Visual Instruments with TouchDesigner», m4music, Zurich
2015: «Algorithmic Visual Composition» generate! Festival, Tübingen
2015: «Algorithmic Audiovisual Composition» Taktung Festival, Zurich
2013: «From 2D to 3D», Centras Festival, Kaunas
2012: «Visual Lab», m4music, Blok, Zurich
2011: «Live-Video and Custom Interfaces», Institut HyperWerk, Basel
2010: «Live-Video Mixing» Institut HyperWerk, Basel

Panels/Awards

2025: Panel Discussion, «Art and AI – New technologies and their influence on our curatorial work», Verein der KuratorInnen von institutionellen Kunstsammlungen der Schweiz, HEK, Basel
2025: Jury Member, VJ-Battle Royal Fish, Fantoche Int. Festival für Animationsfilm, Baden
2018: Basel Media Art Prize 2018 with «The Several Ways I’ve Died In My Imagination»
2018: Jury Member, VJ Battle Kyiv Lights Festival, Kiev
2017: First prize Odessa Light Fest with the Projection Mapping «Rem»
2015/2016: Head of Jury, VJ-Battle Royal Fish, Fantoche Int. Festival für Animationsfilm, Baden
2014: «DokfestLounge: Artist Talk», Kunsthochschule Kassel, Kassel
2014: «Creative Code Meeting», Telenoika Headquarters, Barcelona
2014: Jury-Member, VJ-Torna VJ-Battle, Lab1, Eindhoven