His ongoing projects include Third Eye Moonwalk, a series of audio-visual installations, performances, and readings at Minnesota Street Project, Catharine Clark Gallery, Stanford University, Custom Made Theater, and The Growlery (2016-2019). The project was awarded grants from the Rainin Foundation (New & Experimental Works) and the Venturous Theater Fund to produce Interview with Traveler #582, an experimental short film which premiered in 2023 at the Arizona International Film Festival in the US, Sci-Fi-London in Europe, and Festival Fotogenia in Mexico.
Bernson is the author of seven plays, including four with StoryWorks Theater and The Center for Investigative Reporting: A Guide to the Aftermath (2013), North by Inferno (2015), Overnighters is Over (2016), and When Lighting The Voids (2019). Voids was also produced as an audio drama and a special episode of the Reveal podcast, airing on 485 public radio stations nationwide. In addition to his contributions as a playwright, Bernson is the StoryWorks Artistic Producer and a founding company member.
As a musician, Bernson has written and released more than twenty albums under several names, including Exray’s, whose music was featured in David Fincher’s Academy-Award-winning film, The Social Network. His sound design was featured in After the Fallout, Sam Wolson’s 2020 VR documentary about the Fukushima meltdown, an official selection at Sundance. Bernson also scored, sound designed, and mixed Reeducated, a VR/Ambisonic documentary for the New Yorker, which premiered at SXSW and won an Emmy and a Peabody Award in 2022 for interactive media.
His large-scale installations include: Sound Affects (2015), a multimedia collaboration at the Sonos Studio in Los Angeles, and Beautification Machine (2014-2022), a sound sculpture created with Andy Diaz Hope, which was exhibited at Catharine Clark Gallery, Saint Joseph’s Art Society, and Miami Project before being acquired by the Nevada Museum of Art for its permanent collection in 2016.
