Bee Nix, aka SutureBlue
Bee Nix is a new media artist, researcher, and organizer whose work traces the entanglements of internal states and technosocial systems. Through looping animations, interactive installations, and experimental games, they explore how fractured affect, rumination, and dissonance are both shaped by and resistant to digital structures. Their projects create spaces for misbehavior, play, and reinterpretation, externalizing private tensions into shared encounters that open the possibility of critical distance and transformation.
They have exhibited internationally, including at the Video Artist Conclave (Pittsburgh, 2025), ‘Fu:bar (Zagreb, multiple years), IMAGE PLAY (Madeira, Portugal), and Bavan Gallery (Tehran), among others. Their curatorial and organizing work spans projects such as Video Sync (Portland, 2025), Glitch’N’Games (Pittsburgh, 2024), Glitch Art Is Dead v3 (Minnesota, 2022), EPICENTRE, The Wrong Biennale (Spain, 2019–20), Nuit Blanche (Paris, 2019), and the long-running Glitch Artists Collective (2016–present).
Nix has presented lectures and workshops at venues including the University of Chicago, University of Washington, Villette Makerz (Paris), and MFRU International Festival of Computer Arts (Slovenia). Their MFA thesis (Savannah College of Art & Design, 2025) examines the limits embedded in digital and analog systems and how the structuring of such systems often restricts the full range of play. They currently serve as an Exhibit Design/Build Specialist at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, where they support artists-in-residence and develop interactive, play-based interactions for public audiences.
Born in 1992 and raised in the cornfields of Illinois. After earning a BFA in Design & Multimedia from Northern Illinois University in 2016, I moved to Chicago, where I worked across the fields of fabrication, digital design, and interactive/motion media.
Since 2021, I’ve been based in Pittsburgh. My path has wound through studio fabrication, arcade and pinball repair, international events, and collaborative community building --- threads that keep me grounded in both the playful and the practical.