Artist - Researcher

ART is the poetics of the imagination – SCIENCE is the poetics of reality

Frederik De Wilde acts on the border area between science, technology and art. The conceptual crux of his artistic praxis are the notions of the intangible, inaudible, invisible. It is this interstitial territory that Frederik De Wilde explores in his various works. Sometimes on the side of the technological, and often in the perceptual, conceptual, social—human—register, De Wilde’s art is grounded in the interaction between complex systems, both biological and technological. Moreover, the indistinct, diffuse, ‘fuzzy’ arena where the biological and the technological overlap and commingle is a productive and favored ground for his projects/ projections.

Frederik De Wilde studied fine arts (MA) in St.-Lukas Brussels (painting) and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (sculpture), experimental & audio-visual arts (MA) in St.-Lukas Brussels, followed a pre-education in architecture, studied one year of philosophy (VUB). Frederik concluded his studies with a post-graduate degree in new media, arts and design at Transmedia in Brussels where he was initiated in software programming.

Furthermore, Frederik studied and worked abroad. For instance at the Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture (USA), or the Escola Massana in Spain. Frederik collaborated with Groep-T, new media engineers at the University of Leuven (KUL), the robotics department of the University Brussels (VUB) and the Physics department of the University of Hasselt (UH), Rice University in Houston (USA), Karlsruhe University (DE) and currently NASA.

Frederik is now working as a guest professor at Transmedia Brussels and is a permanent artist in residence at the University of Hasselt.