Professor Bergner is a theatrical scene designer and scenic artist and work in that vein comprises the vast majority of his creative activity. He is active also in theories of space and spatial design, pertaining to both dramatic space, general architecture and natural space. He is now working in, teaching and studying live, site-based experience design (XD) and has directed/founded a new academic degree program in that field. He is also interested in allied design crafts including television and film art direction, design graphics and exhibit/display design. He has also began (in 2020) a new research vein of study in to the history of scenic art and scenic painting in North America, particularly studying the history of BIPOC and women artists working in that craft during its heyday of the early Twentieth Century. He has participated in the discovery of ancient scenic artifacts at the Tabor Opera House in Leadville, CO.
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theatrical scene design, scenography, art direction, entertainment design, experience design, spatial theory, spatial design, design criticism, philosophy of architecture, theatre production, scenic art, scene painting, trompe-loeil, faux finishing, theatre crafts, stagecraft, semiotics, signage studies, imagery studies, scenic iconicity, exhibit design and implementation, computer assisted design
