Nick Lesley (b. 1979) is a video artist and musician. Much of his work focuses on physical relationships to sound and art experience. Nick has created interactive video and audio structures for performance as well as multimedia installations using Max/MSP/Jitter. He regularly performs improvised music, and has composed music for dance and film. His video works for single and multi-channel video have been exhibited around the U.S.

Nick completed his MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts from Brooklyn College in 2008. He holds a BA from the University of California, San Diego (2001) in Film and Video, Media Arts with a minor in Music Technology. Nick currently works at Electronic Arts Intermix in New York.

In his video work, Nick often uses canons of music culture to investigate the relation of individual identities within the context of a global human condition. His interest in improvised music and interactive video/sound installation stems from a desire to establish human connection in a subconscious, primeval unity of experience. Nick's video works playfully utilize self-inflicted genre labels and cross-cultural archetypes. He creates performative sound videos and experiments grouping disparate aesthetic norms.

As a musician, Nick primarily plays improvised drums and interactive electronics (analog or laptop using Max/MSP). His drumming style is in the realm of "free-improvisation" but infused with the hardcore punk he grew up with in San Diego in the early 90's. On any instrument, he focuses on allowing space for collaboration, and creating energy and drama in an improvised performance.

Nick is the founder of the improvised noise-rock group Necking, which has been performing since 2004. He is co-founder of Gunung Sari, a noise group inspired by traditional folk musics (particularly Indonesian gamelan music) which employs home-made electronics and percussion. He also performs in the improv-rock group Alien Whale and plays drums in Prsms, a punk band inspired by the west coast hardcore of the band members' youth.