Nicole L'Huillier

Nicole L'Huillier is a Chilean transdisciplinary artist and MIT researcher who investigates agency and collectivity through sound, vibration, and sonic sculpture. Her work bridges art and science, creating installations and compositions that use acoustic phenomena as a medium for exploring how groups of objects, organisms, and people interact and organize themselves.

L'Huillier holds a PhD in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT, where she received the Schnitzer First Prize in Visual Arts for her research. Her accomplishments include receiving a DAAD fellowship, which supported her international artistic development, and winning the SIMETRIA prize, a prestigious residency at CERN that enabled her to work at the intersection of particle physics and artistic practice. These recognitions reflect the rigor and innovation she brings to her research-based artistic practice.

Her work offers audiences new frameworks for understanding how sound and vibration function as tools for investigating collective behavior and agency beyond the human. By grounding her artistic practice in rigorous research methodologies while maintaining creative experimentation, L'Huillier demonstrates how sonic and sculptural media can make visible the invisible forces that organize systems at every scale.