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For a full list of projects please see: www.mbiederman.com

Bio:

b. 1972, Chicago Heights, IL, USA

Matthew Biederman works with the electromagnetic spectrum as base material in all of his explorations. He explores questions surrounding the spectrum from policy to perception through tactical media projects, performances, installations, and workshops. Biederman was the recipient of the Bay Area Artist Award in Video by New Langton Arts in 1999, First Place in the Visual Arts category of Slovenia’s Break21 festival, and has served as artist-in-residence at the Center for Experimental Television on numerous occasions.

His installations have been exhibited worldwide in a variety of festivals and venues such as 7th ATA Fesitval (Lima, Peru), Oboro (Montreal), ZeroOne (San Jose) and the SCAPE Biennial of Art in Public Space (Christchurch, New Zealand) As a film and video maker, his works have been included in, among others, the FILE festival (Sao Paulo), New Forms Festival (Vancouver), the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Paris/Berlin International Meetings, and the Chicago Underground Film Festival.

As a performer, he has developed his work through various settings to stimulate new work methodologies, via site-specific works at SIGGRAPH and DARE-DARE, residencies at the Makrolab, and various other projects. He has worked alongside numerous musicians since 1999, performing at the historic Theatre du Chatelet (Paris), Ars Electronica (Linz), the AV Festival (Newcastle), Hipersonica (Rio de Janeiro) and many others. Since 2004 he has participated on a long-term collaboration with the Projekt Atol / PACT Systems team performing and developing the visual display systems for their Signal-Sever! / SCATTER! / Spektr! events. These performances have been featured at festivals such as Futuresonic (UK), ISEA (Helsinki/Singapore), Nuit Blanche (Paris), and La Batie (Geneva). As a visualist, his performances have been featured at festivals such as Elektra (Montreal), MUTEK (Montreal), Flow (Helsinki), and Version (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago).

He is currently engaged in the Arctic Perspective Initiative working towards the construction of free, open information sharing infrastructures for the circumpolar region. Please see: http://www.arcticperspective.org

Biederman is currently represented by Art45 and lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.

Arctic Perspective Initiative - Exhibition

API team expedition to Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada, July 2009.
Photo: Matthew Biederman

Arctic Perspective
Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London, UK
21 May to 30 September 2010, weekdays 10am-5.30pm

Arctic Perspective highlights the cultural, geopolitical and ecological significance of the Arctic and its indigenous cultures. In collaboration with the people of Igloolik, Kinngait, Iqaluit, Mittimatalik and Kanngiqtugaapik in Nunavut, Canada and other Arctic communities, artists and architects are devising a mobile media and living unit and infrastructure, powered by renewable energy sources. The unit will be used by Inuit and other Arctic peoples for creative media production such as film-making, communications and monitoring the environment, while moving, living and working on the land. The exhibition includes architectural models of winning designs from the Arctic Perspective open architecture competition by Richard Carbonnier (Canada), Catherine Rannou (France) and Giuseppe Mecca (Italy), with photographs, videos and maps from the project.

The Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) is led by artists Marko Peljhan (Slovenia) and Matthew Biederman (US/Canada) and this exhibition has been curated by The Arts Catalyst. API collaborators are Miha Bratina and Ziga Testen, and partners are HMKV (Germany), Project Atol (Slovenia), C-Tasc (Canada), Lorna (Iceland), The Arts Catalyst (UK).

For more on this international collaborative project see www.artscatalyst.org

Arctic Perspective exhibition talk - booking essential

Contemporary Nomadism:
Autonomy & Technology in the North
Thursday 20 May 2010, 4.30-6.30pm

Introducing the international project behind the Arctic Perspective exhibition, a panel of artists, academics and architects explore its cultural, historical and political contexts. The Arctic Perspective Initiative aims to support a thoroughly contemporary nomadism via open and free media, environmental monitoring and communications technologies.

Panel: Marko Peljhan, artist and instigator of Arctic Perspective Initiative, director Projekt Atol (Slovenia)
David Turnbull, science sociologist (Australia)
Richard Carbonnier, architect (Canada)
Inke Arns, curator, artistic director HMKV (Germany)
Chair: Michael Bravo, Scott Polar Research Institute (UK/Canada).

Places are limited for this free talk event and must be booked in advance.