Erika Tsuchiya-Bergere is an audio-visual artist currently based in Philadelphia, USA. She is of Japanese origin, born in the UK and educated in the USA, UK, and France. Her artistic work is socially driven and interdisciplinary, with research interests community engaged collaborative creation and immersive technologies. She has a BA in Social Anthropology from SOAS University of London, and MA in Photography. She also did a fine art foundation in Paris, France. She currently teaches at Rowan University in New Jersey, where her Immersive Media Production class won 1st place in the Broadcast Education Media Awards 2020 in the Emerging Technology category for an original show created for the Edelman Planetarium full dome theater.

Collaborative A/V projects include Alka on VeryRecords, NYC, a small electronic label run by Vince Clarke from Erasure, Yazz and founding member for Depeche Mode. She has also performed as vocalist and VJ on Puzzlebox Records, an electronic music label in Detroit, MI run by Keith Tucker of Aux88, pioneer of the Technobass genre of Electro music. She is classically in piano and violin since a very young age, and performed Mozart's Sonata no. 16 and Beethoven's Sonata no.14 at 9 years old as a Young Soloist in Fairfax County, VA.

Fluent in Japanese, English, and French, she loves being immersed in and learning about other cultures. Her work is heavily influenced by 1990's UK squatter and free party scene, new-age traveller culture, and early 1980's hiphop culture. Ultimately fueling and inspiring her toward pursuing the road of electronic music, visual arts and performance.