Edwin van der Heide is an artist, composer and researcher in the field of sound, space and interaction. He extends musical composition and musical language into spatial, interactive and interdisciplinary directions. His work comprises installations, performances and environments. The audience is located in the middle of the work and challenged to actively explore and interact with the artwork.
He has presented his work at renown museums, festivals, galleries and music venues as SMAK - Ghent, Ars Electronica Festival - Linz, Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam, V2_'s DEAF - Rotterdam, ICC - Tokyo, NAMOC - Beijing, Transmediale - Berlin, SONAR - Barcelona, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, SFMOMA, FILE - Brazil, MAXXI - Rome, SONAMBIENTE - Berlin, Reina Sofia Museum - Madrid, ZKM - Karlsruhe, Art Basel Parcours Night and Donaueschinger Musiktage.
Besides running his own studio he is part-time lecturer and researcher at Leiden University, involved in both the Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) including the Media Technology MSc programme, and the Academy for Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA). From 1995 till 2016 he was a lecturer at, and later also co-head (2014-2016) of, the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatoire and Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He was Edgard Varèse guest professor at the Technische Universität Berlin (2009) and won the Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award 2009 for his entire body of work. He was an invited artist and guest professor at Le Fresnoy, studio des arts contemporain in France for the year 2011-2012 and guest lecturer in the Master Contemporary Arts Practice of the HKB, Bern University of the Arts in 2019.
We offer internship positions in the fields of digital media design, media art,
sonology, music technology, software development, electrical engineering, industrial
design, computer science, interaction design, art management, curatorial
practice/studies and more.
Wij bieden stageplaatsen aan op het gebied van digitaal mediaontwerp, mediakunst, sonologie, muziek en technologie, softwareontwikkeling, elektrotechniek, industrieel ontwerpen, informatica, interactieontwerp, kunstmanagment, curatorschap en meer.
Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Published November 28th, 2025
Radio Web MACBA
October 7th 2023 - May 12th, 2024
Nieuwe Instituut and LI-MA, Rotterdam, Netherlands
October 7th 2023 - May 12th, 2024
Nieuwe Instituut and LI-MA, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Published September 10th, 2023
Radio Web MACBA
Water Light Festival, Brixen, Italy
Highlight Delft, Delft, Netherlands
Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India
Art Machines 2022 - Creative Coding Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Published November 29th, 2022
Radio Web MACBA
Jeroen Alexander Meijer & Edwin van der Heide
Paying Attention, Immersive Installations, & New Sounds
Festival Espacios Resonantes, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Parque Forestal, Santiago de Chile
EVI LICHTUNGEN, Hildesheim, Germany
Creative Coding Utrecht, Netherlands
Creative Coding Utrecht, Netherlands
Electric Eclectics, Meaford, Ontario, Canada
Smart City Casablanca Symposium & Morocco Numerica, Casablanca, Morocco
Drawing Centre Diepenheim, Diepenheim, Netherlands
ESNS Eurosonic Noorderslag and Kunstpunt Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
LISTENING / HEARING, International Symposium, bonnhoeren, Beethovenstiftung, Bonn, Germany
with: sam auinger, barry blesser, gernot böhme, joseph clarke, christoph cox, helga de la motte-haber, max eastley, stefan evers, bill fontana, anne holzmüller, christina kubisch, bernhard leitner, raoul mörchen, gordon monahan, sandra müller, sven oliver müller, jonas obleser, andreas oldörp, jens gerrit papenburg, lucia ronchetti, stefan rummel, linda-ruth salter, holger schulze, carsten seiffarth, richard sennett, erwin stache, karin bijsterveld, akio suzuki, maia urstad, edwin van der heide, …
IJsselbiennale, Netherlands
Klankvorm, Laurenskerk, Rotterdam, Netherlands
February 28st, 2021 - 12h00 CET = 20h00 JST
Ogen/blik #4, Japan
IAMAS修了研究発表会にて、エドウィン・ファン・デル・ハイデ氏と、作曲家の三輪眞弘氏による対談を開催します
February 22nd, 2021 - 8h00 CET = 16h00 JST
IAMAS, Gifu, Japan
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
October 31st, 2020 - 19h00 GMT+2 = 18:00 CET
Sound Around 2020, NCCA Kaliningrad, Russia
Lighting Design International Conference, State Hermitage Museum and ITMO University, St Petersburg, Russia
La Nuit de la Culture, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
DordtYart, Dordrecht, Netherlands
ELEKTRA Festival, Montreal, Canada
Mai Au Parc, Lancy, Zwitserland
Milano Digital Week, Milano, Italy
Lûd, sound art exhibtion, part of Leeuwarden Cultural Capital of Europe, Rijsterbos, Friesland, Netherlands
Science of Sound, DordtYart, Dordrecht, Netherlands
Spot '18, Vilnius, Lithuania
June 12, 13 & 14, 2018
Sonar Festival, Barcelona City Hall, Barcelona, Spain
June 3, 4, 5 and 6, 2018
NIME 2018 conference, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Dordtyart, Dordrecht, Netherlands
Electric Poetry, Albert van Abbehuis, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Part of the weekly This Week's Discoveries lecture series of Leiden University's Faculty of Science, Leiden, Netherlands
October 21st - November 12th, 2017
Theater Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Locarno Film Festival, commissioned by electronic-art.foundation and curated by HeK - House of Electronic Arts Basel, Locarno, Switzerland
A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, China
Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, Spain
Conference - The Role and Position of Sounds and Sounding Art in Public Urban Environments, Academy for Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
workshop on Multimodal Virtual and Augmented Reality in conjunction with ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Tokyo, Japan
November 13th, 2016
CYNETART, Dresden, Germany
Game Set and Match 3 International Symposium, Hyperbody, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands
December 12th, 2015 - October 30th, 2016 | opening hours: 12:00 - 20:00
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, Bonn, Germany
October 2nd, 2016
Recombinant Festival, San Francisco, United States of America
October 2nd, 2016
Recombinant Festival, San Francisco, United States of America
Jerusalem, Israel
Festival de Luz y Vanguardias, Salamanca, Spain
Muziek op de Dommel, Eindhoven, Netherlands
inSonic 2015 - conference on the aesthetics of spatial audio in sound, music and sound art, Karlsruhe, Germany
Flussi Media Arts Festival, Avellino, Italy
Ground Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Kunstverein, Braunschweig, Germany
Spring Attitude, Rome, Italy
March 27th, 2015
International Symposium Raum durch Klang, Hochschule der Künste Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
TU/e, Eindhoven, Netherlands
International Conference on Live Interfaces, Lisbon, Portugal
White Night, RIXC, Riga, Latvia
SKAN II, Skanu Mezs, Riga, Latvia
Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
Coded Matters #07 - Extended Senses, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Waag Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands
National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Haagse Hogeschool, The Hague, Netherlands
December 20th, 2013
Sound Art China, West Bund 2013 - Biennial of Architecture and Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
Festival Wonderstroom, Vlissingen, Netherlands
Shanghai Electronic Music Week, Shanghai, China
Sound Art China, West Bund 2013 - Biennial of Architecture and Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China
Shanghai Electronic Music Week, Shanghai, China
Platforma, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
Moscow Conservatory Centre for Electroacoustic Music, Moscow, Russia
October 11th, 2013
RIXC Festival, RENEW - The 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Riga, Latvia
DordtYart, Dordrecht, Netherlands
Kunstnacht, Den Bosch, Netherlands
La Deambule, Brest, France
Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Money 2013, Chi Art Space, K11, Tsim Sha Tsui, Shanghai, China
Tschumi Pavilion, Groningen, Netherlands
CBK Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
FACT, Liverpool, UK
Sound Art - Klang als Medium der Kunst, ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
GLOW 2012, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Ephemeral Sustainability Conference, Bergen, Norway
Donaueschinger Musiktage, Donaueschingen, Germany
SONORITÉS 2012, Montpellier, France
Expérience Pommery #9 - LA FABRIQUE SONORE, Vranken Pommery, Reims, France
V2_, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
LICHTSTRÖME 2012, Koblenz, Germany
DEAF (Dutch Electronic Art Festival), V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
TEI 2012 Conference, Queens University, Kingston, Canada
MOIS MULTI 13, Quebec, Canada
STRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands
STRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands
STRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Kontraste, Krems, Austria
Kontraste, Krems, Austria
Festival Scopitone, Nantes, France
SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
With contributions by Justin Bennett, Usman Haque, David Schafer, James Webb, Edwin van der Heide, Raviv Ganchrow, Jodi Rose, Nigel Helyer, Michael Gendreau, Jean-Paul Thibaud, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Oliver Laric, David Stalling / Anthony Kelly, Romano, Natasha Barrett / Birger Sevaldson, Scott Arford / Randy Yau, Riccardo Benassi, Carrie Bodle, Jenny Pickett / Julien Ottavi, Pascal Broccolichi, Jacob Kreutzfeldt, Joaquín Gutiérrez Hadid, Franz Pomassl & Björn Quiring. Errant Bodies Press, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-9827439-0-4
TransLife: Media Art China 2011, NAMOC, Beijing, China
review: New York Times
June 18th - August 20th, 2011
Corrosia! Ongehoord, Almere, Netherlands
Corrosia!, Almere, Netherlands
Echo Digital Conference 2011 at The Sage Gateshead performance program curated by AV FESTIVAL, Newcastle, UK
Festival van Vlaanderen, Budascoop, Kortrijk, Belgium
ART-ISSUE gallery, Beijing, China
Theater Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
including portraits of Dick Raaijmakers, Jan Boerman,Ton Bruynel, Michel Waisvisz, Anne La Berge and Edwin van der Heide
Museum Night - Rotterdam / V2_organisation, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Museum Night - Rotterdam, Museumpark (Kunsthal side), Rotterdam, Netherlands
Supersimetria, Espai Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona, Spain
Interference Festival - IDFX, Breda, Netherlands
This Happend - Utrecht #7, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Taipei Contemporary Arts Centre, Taipei, Taiwan
3rd Human Robot Personal Relationships Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands
with Armeno Albers, Cilia Erens, Bente Hamel, Edwin van der Heide and Roald van Oosten
June 20th, 2010 and onwards
Grenzeloos Geluid, Beverwijk and Heemskerk, The Netherlands
This Week's Discoveries lecture series, Leiden University, The Netherlands
June 8th - June 25th, 2010
Dag van de Kunst, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Dissonanze, Rome, Italy
Elektra Festival, Montreal, Canada
Feb 28th, 2010
Sonic Acts 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Geert-Jan Hobijn, Paul Panhuysen, Nico Parlevliet, Taco Stolk and Peter Veenstra
Jan 29th, 2010
CBK Dordrecht, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Les Urbaines, Arsenic, Lausanne, Switzerland
Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award Exhibition, Bergkerk, Deventer, Netherlands
CREAM, International Festival for Arts and Media, Yokohama, Japan
LSP - Laser Sound Performance -
Bergkerk, Deventer, Netherlands
'Physical Conditions', Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
July 23rd - September 13th
Singuhr Hoergalerie, Berlin, Germany
ART-FACTORY Festival - Material Resistance: Elements and Effects, NCCA, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 2009
ART-FACTORY Festival - Material Resistance: Elements and Effects, NCCA, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 2009
Berlin, Germany
Architectones Conference, Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, France
Klangstaetten, Braunschweig, Germany
Een Dijk van een Kust, Monnikendam, The Netherlands
curated by Edwin van der Heide & Joost Rekveld
October 4th, 2008 - April 4th, 2009
CBK Dordrecht, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
La Brèche, Cherbourg, France
Les Soirées Nomades (nomadic nights), Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
SARC (Sonic Arts Research Centre) Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
SARC (Sonic Arts Research Centre) Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
performed by: Edwin van der Heide & Bart Visser
produced by V2_, at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield, England
performed by: Edwin van der Heide & Bart Visser
produced by V2_, at November Music, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
performed by: Edwin van der Heide & Bart Visser
produced by V2_, at November Music, Ghent, Belgium
Lampo, Chicago, USA
performed by: Edwin van der Heide & Bart Visser
produced by V2_, at Dag in de Branding, The Hague, The Netherlands
Deep Screen - Art in Digital Culture, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
performed by: Edwin van der Heide & Bart Visser
produced by V2_, at Todays Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
PICNIC 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Garaj Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Electrified, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
TUNED CITY, Berlin, Germany
SONAR 2008, Barcelona, Spain
Hangar, Barcelona, Spain
ECMCT course, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Trienale Bovisa, Milano, Italy
Night of the Unexpected, Trafo, Budapest, Hungary
Kunstencentrum BUDA, Kortrijk, Belgium
performed by: Edwin van der Heide & Bart Visser
produced by V2_, at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pallazo re enzo, Voltone, Bologna,Italy
NETMAGE 08 Festival, Italy
Weizmann square, Holon, Israel
Hapzura Festival, Digital Art Lab, Holon, Israel
STRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands
STRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield, England
Art Futura, Barcelona, Spain
Art Centre Nabi, Seoul, Korea
Happy New Ears Festival, Kortrijk, Belgium
August 2nd - September 23rd, 2007
Singuhr Sound Art Gallery, Water Reservoir, Prenzlauerberg, Berlin, Germany
Art Centre Nabi, Seoul Train Station, Seoul, Korea
Estuaire Bianual 2007, base sous-marine, Alveole 14, LIFE, Saint Nazaire, France
Avantgarde Tirol, Seefeld, Austria
Brueckenmusik 13, Deutzer Brücke (eingang markmannsgasse), Cologne, Germany
Electric Eclectics Festival of Music and Media Art, Meaford, Ontario, Canada
Klangraume Sibiu, Casa Luxembourg, Sibiu, Romania
April 20th - June 2nd, 2007
Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
Musica Genera Festival 2007, Szczecin, Poland
Observatori Festival 2007, Valencia, Spain
DEAF (Dutch Electronic Art Festival), V2_, at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
DEAF (Dutch Electronic Art Festival), V2_, at Zaal Staal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Good Vibrations
centrum kunstlicht in de kunst / centre artificial light in art, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Live!iXem 2006 Italian Experimental Electronic Music Festival and Contest, Rome, Italy
November 24th, 2006
Gaudeamus Live Electronics Festival, Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia
Re:visie in Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Vibra / Audiogeneradores
Curated by ATA (Alta Tecnologia Andina), Lima, Peru
Commissioned by Centro Fundacion Telefonica, Lima, Peru
todaysart, The Hague, The Netherlands
Electric Eclectics Festival of Music and Media Art, Meaford, Ontario, Canada
Beijing International New Media Arts Festival, Beijing, China
5 Days Off Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Montevideo Amsterdam, The Netherlands
as part of the Straatgallerij
curious little sister, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Synch Festival, Athens, Greece
Synch Festival, Athens, Greece
Circulo Bellas Artes, Tenerife, Canary Islands
7th Art Rock, St-Brieuc, France
Festival aan de Werf, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Dissonanze, Rome, Italy
7th Elektra Festival, Montreal, Canada
7th Elektra Festival, Montreal, Canada