Sylvain Vriens (1980) is an interaction artist that mainly focuses on video and physical electronics. His work frustrates, reacts unexpectedly en often times shows human-like attributes. Besides his own free work he helps other artists realizing their ideas and works as a programmer at IJsfontein. In 2008 he received his masters degree in Media Technology from the university of Leiden.

During his studies he worked, among other projects, on Have-a-Seat, an interactive sofa about proxemics in public space and graduated with I am always here; an installation about CCTV and how it defines a new urban reality and religion.

Although discovering the computer relatively late as a creative medium he soon started project-euh.com as a place to post his interactive experiments. From here Sylvain slowly found his way to electronics and physical computing, moving away from computer screens, keyboards and mice.

Some random skills

Natural languages: Dutch, English

Programming languages: Actionscript, CSS, HTML, Java, Lingo, PHP, PicBasic Pro, Processing, Wiring

Hardware and electronics: Arduino, DMX, Midi, PIC, Wiring

Other software: Flash, Director, Max / MSP / Jitter