Jacques Louis Nyst (be) was born in Liège, Belgium in 1942 and died in 1995. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid and in Liège. In addition to his work in video, he was also a filmmaker, writer and visual artist. He was Professor of Drawing and Video at the Academy of Fine Arts, Liège. Along with wife Danièle Nyst, the artist collaborated on a body of video works that were at once philosophical, theoretical, and whimsical.