Yves Bernard’s (BE) parcours is typical of an Arts&Sciences life. His education is interdisciplinary: architecture and computer science. He worked 10 years (1981-1991) as a scientific researcher in Computer Aided Architectural Design at the University of Liège, and then at Philips Research Laboratory Belgium (Brussels) on software engineering, user interface design and multimedia authoring tools.

In 1994, he founded Magic Media, one of the first european new media studio specialised in art&culture projects. He was a manager, an interaction designer and a software engineer for many awarded cd-roms realised for major publishers (ex. MILIA d’Or Award 1998 with the 'Art du Moyen-Age' title published by Gallimard). He managed Internet european content-oriented projects and was an expert for the European Commission.

Since 1996, he was Professsor of digital arts at art schools (e.g. Erg, ESA Saint-Luc Brussels).

In 1999, he founded iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory), a laboratory based in Brussels dedicated to the artistic use of digital technologies. He was its managing and artistic director unitil mid-2021. He produced many projects and was the (co-)curator of exhibitions and/or festivals in Brussels and Finland, e.g. CONTinENT (2000), F2F (2003), Infiltrations Digitales (2004), openLAB (2005), Art+Game (2006), Hybrid World (2007), Holy Fire - Art of the Digital Age (2008), Welcome to the Future! and Anarchronism (2015), iMAL at Work (2019)... He co-organised international conferences such as Preservation and Access to Born-digital Cultures (2015), Blockchain, Fact, Fiction, Future (2016), So What about Politics? - #SWAP (2017), Thinking/Acting in Alliance, First steps towards a Digital Climate (2019, Transmediale-Berlin).

He initiated and directed the renovation and enlargment of iMAL venue from 2016 to 2021 supported by the European Regional Development Fund.

Yves is the author or co-author of artworks exploring the fusion of the physical and online worlds, e.g. Martini Ground Zero (2001), OFFFCAM (2004), The Gate (2007)