Born in Montréal in 1976, Matthieu Brouillard studied visual and media arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where he completed his doctorate in 2013. His visual work and writing have been widely published and exhibited, and he has been a lecturer and invited researcher at several universities and art schools, including the University of Zürich, the University of Bern, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, and the Cinéma/Cinéma du réel department at the Geneva University of Art and Design. Brouillard has published three books: <em>Narragonie </em>(J'ai VU, 2007), <em>Darkness Implacable </em>(Sagamie, 2013) and <em>Coming through the Fog </em>(Sagamie, 2012).