Nicolas Collins, born in New York, studied composition with Alvin Lucier and collaborated for a number of years with David Tudor. For the better part of the nineties he lived in Europe, was Visiting Artistic Director of the STEIM-foundation in Amsterdam and as a stipendiary of DAAD also in Berlin. Meanwhile Collins is a professor at the 'Department of sound' of the Art Institute of Chicago. His works have appeared on a number of cds with PlateLunch, Periplum and Apestaartje. Collins also acts as curator for installations and performances and is the editor of the Leornardo Music Journal. His most recent publication, 'Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking', appeared in 2006 with Routledge.
Collins is a specialist for the creative misappropriation and cannibalizing of small electronic gadgets like games, tamagochies and other one-dollar-articles for artistic purposes. In the course of transmediale.07 he will in this way create for Edition Edison little objects, in which the video-electronics produces the sound and the audio-electronics actuates the LCD-display.
www.nicolascollins.com 
