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.
Collections
2026
- «Neural Fiction» Edition 1/5, Reserved for the art collection of House of Electronic Arts, Basel
2025
- «Neural Fiction» Edition 2/5, Acquired by the art collection of the Mobiliar Genossenschaft
Selection of performances and installations
2026
- «The Bureau: Unscripted» Live Performance by Miriam Paschetta, Gare Du Nord, Basel
- «Escape Body Chain», Live Performance by ChaoMing Ko, Basel Social Club, Basel
- «Fragile Signals», Audiovisual Concert, After Hours Har, Basel
- «Fragile Signals», Audiovisual Concert, Projektraum M54, Basel
- «Surrealtronics», Musical Theatre by Yana Thönnes, Tanzhaus, Basel
- Ben Kaczor & Niculin Barandun, Live Concert, Audible Perspectives, Biel
- «Listen!» mit Studio Labour, Kaserne Basel
- «Intimate Shoutouts», Interdisciplinary 18-hour Performance, Cahn Contemporary, Basel
2025
- «Fragile Signals», Audiovisual Concert, Electronic Friday – Sonic Space, Basel
- «Neural Fiction», Audiovisual Installation, Group Exhibition «Other Intelligences» MU Hybrid Art House , Eindhoven
- «Neural Fiction», Audiovisual Installation, Group Exhibition «Andere Intelligenzen» HEK, Basel
- «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
- «Neural Fiction», Audiovisual Installation, Hack The Promise Festival, Basel
- «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)«Fragile Signals», Audiovisual Concert, Electronic Friday – Sonic Space, Basel
2023
- «Topia», Audiovisual concert, Mexico Tour (316centro, Mexico City | Son de Aqui, Oaxaca | TVL Rec Festival, Vernacular Institute, Mexico City | Audiovisual concert, Pabellón la Carreta, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey | Ojala Bar, Valle de Bravo | Galeria Sepia, Guadalajara | Estado Incandescente, Mexico City | Ciclo de Arte Sonoro, ZunZun Insular, Mexico City | Algo Tranqui, Nadadores, Mexico City | Sonidos Eclécticos Electrónicos, Veri Bari, Mexico City)
- «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)«Neural Fiction», Audiovisual Installation, Mesh Festival, Basel
2022
- Ben Kaczor & Niculin Barandun, Audiovisual concert, DA Z Digital Art Festival, Zürich
- «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
- «Transmission~», Audiovisual Installation, Parzelle403, Basel
- 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
- «Mapping Possibilities VI», Pro Helvetia Jubilee Program, Cairo
- «Spanish footwork», collaboration with Kid Simius, Circle of Light International Festival, Moscow
- «Stm~ Duality», Volumens Festival Internacional de Exploración Audio & Visual, Valencia
- «Materialized Moments», collaboration with Natureboy Flako, Kyiv Lights Festival, Kiev
- «Tane», Finalist 1-minute Projection Mapping Competition, Nagasaki
2017
- «The Several Ways» (Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel | Royal, Baden | Neubad, Luzern | Markthalle, Basel | Kulturfolger, Zürich | Parterre, Basel | B-Sides Festival, Kriens | Off Bar, Basel)
- «Mapping Possibilities VI», Pro Helvetia Jubilee Program, Cairo
- «Spanish footwork», collaboration with Kid Simius, Circle of Light International Festival, Moscow
- «Stm~ Duality», Volumens Festival Internacional de Exploración Audio & Visual, Valencia
- «Materialized Moments», collaboration with Natureboy Flako, Kyiv Lights Festival, Kiev
- «Tane», Finalist 1-minute Projection Mapping Competition, Nagasaki
- «Rem», First prize Odessa Light Fest, Odessa
- «Obscure», Kyiv Lights Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
- Openair Zürich with Kid Simius, Zurich
2016
- «Proteios», Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel
- «Proteios», Royal Fish Festival, Baden
- «Stm~ Duality», SOUND//VISION, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam
- Electron Festival, Geneva
- m4music, Zurich
2015
- Circle of Light, Moscow International Festival, Moscow
- «Stm~ Duality», Design Festival, Videokunstraum Progr, Bern
- «Stm~ Duality», Taktung Festival, Zurich
- m4music, Zurich
2014
- «Stm~ Duality», Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, Kassel
- «Stm~ Duality», Circle of Light, Moscow International Festival, Moscow
- «Stm~ Duality», Lab1, Eindhoven
- «Stm~ Duality», Mapping Festival, Genf
- «Stm~ Duality», Telenoika Headquarters, Barcelona
- «Stm~ Duality», Künstlerhaus Nürnberg, Nuremberg
2013
- Poolloop Festival Rote Fabrik, Zurich
- m4music, Zurich
- Centras Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania
- Live Performers Meeting, Rome
- 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
- «Algorithmic Audiovisual Composition» Taktung Festival, Zurich
2013
- «Algorithmic Visual Composition» generate! Festival, Tübingen
- «From 2D to 3D», Centras Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania
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
- 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»
- Jury Member, VJ Battle Kyiv Lights Festival, Kiev
2017
- First prize Odessa Light Fest with the Projection Mapping «Rem»
2016
- Head of Jury, VJ-Battle Royal Fish, Fantoche Int. Festival für Animationsfilm, Baden
2015
- Head of Jury, VJ-Battle Royal Fish, Fantoche Int. Festival für Animationsfilm, Baden
2014
- «DokfestLounge: Artist Talk», Kunsthochschule Kassel, Kassel
- «Creative Code Meeting», Telenoika Headquarters, Barcelona
- Jury-Member, VJ-Torna VJ-Battle, Lab1, Eindhoven