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b. 1972, Chicago Heights, IL, USA
A trans-disciplinary artist working across media and milieus, who has been exploring perception, data systems, media saturation and its politics since the mid nineties. 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, as well as receiving support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Counsel des artes et Lettres du Québec (CALQ). He cut his teeth in the past as a co-director of San Francisco's Artist Television Access, a long standing community media access center on the US west coast. He has since co-founded the Arctic Perspective Initiative, with Marko Peljhan, in 2007, a non-profit, international group of individuals and organizations, whose goal is to promote the creation of open authoring, communications and dissemination infrastructures for the circumpolar region.
His installations have been exhibited in the US, South America, and Europe, in a variety of festivals and venues such as 7 ATA Festival Internacional (Lima, Peru), the 11th Lyon Bienniale, and the 2011 Quebec Trienniale. As a film and video maker, his works have been included in the FILE festival (Sao Paulo), New Forms Festival (Vancouver), the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Paris/Berlin International Meetings, and the Chicago Underground Film Festival. His public works have been shown at the ZeroOne2006 Festival, the SCAPE Biennial in New Zealand.
As a performer, sometimes using his alias of 'DelRay', he has developed his work through creating varied settings to stimulate new work methodologies, namely through a site-specific works at SIGGRAPH, residencies at the Makrolab and the Experimental Television Center, among others. He has collaborated with musicians as a visual since 1999, performing at the historic Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, as well as Ars Electronica, AV Festival and many many more. Since 2004 he has collaborated on a long-term collaboration with Projekt Atol and the rx:tx label, developing the visual display systems and performing the Signal-Sever! / SPEKTR! / SCATTER! events which include; Futuresonic (UK), ISEA (Helsinki), Nuit Blanche (Paris), and La Batie (Geneva). As a VJ, his performances have been featured at festivals such as MUTEK, Flow (Helsinki), and Version (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago) plus many other events in cities around the world at a variety of venues.
Biederman is currently represented by Art45 and lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.
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My work follows simultaneous, intertwined threads, creating a varied practice when examined traditionally. That is, if looked at it in a compartmentalized fashion, my practice would be situated within tactical media, radio, painting, design, performance, and art and technology. I choose, however, not to be restricted to any one of these mediums, but to, instead, allow for exchange and crossover between them through diverse combinations of engagements of media, place, content, and aim. I believe in the idea of the artist as artisan, the artist as provocateur and the necessity to present (and provoke) a vision of sublime emotion, one possible version of beauty that leads to new understandings and conceptions of the world, its systems, and potentials. In this way, the artist is an inventor, not in a conventional sense, but as one who serves as a beacon illuminating possibilities.
b. 1972, Chicago Heights, IL, USA
A trans-disciplinary artist working across media and milieus, who has been exploring perception, data systems, media saturation and its politics since the mid nineties. 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, as well as receiving support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Counsel des artes et Lettres du Québec (CALQ). He cut his teeth in the past as a co-director of San Francisco's Artist Television Access, a long standing community media access center on the US west coast. He has since co-founded the Arctic Perspective Initiative, with Marko Peljhan, in 2007, a non-profit, international group of individuals and organizations, whose goal is to promote the creation of open authoring, communications and dissemination infrastructures for the circumpolar region.
His installations have been exhibited in the US, South America, and Europe, in a variety of festivals and venues such as 7 ATA Festival Internacional (Lima, Peru), the 11th Lyon Bienniale, and the 2011 Quebec Trienniale. As a film and video maker, his works have been included in the FILE festival (Sao Paulo), New Forms Festival (Vancouver), the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Paris/Berlin International Meetings, and the Chicago Underground Film Festival. His public works have been shown at the ZeroOne2006 Festival, the SCAPE Biennial in New Zealand.
As a performer, sometimes using his alias of 'DelRay', he has developed his work through creating varied settings to stimulate new work methodologies, namely through a site-specific works at SIGGRAPH, residencies at the Makrolab and the Experimental Television Center, among others. He has collaborated with musicians as a visual since 1999, performing at the historic Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, as well as Ars Electronica, AV Festival and many many more. Since 2004 he has collaborated on a long-term collaboration with Projekt Atol and the rx:tx label, developing the visual display systems and performing the Signal-Sever! / SPEKTR! / SCATTER! events which include; Futuresonic (UK), ISEA (Helsinki), Nuit Blanche (Paris), and La Batie (Geneva). As a VJ, his performances have been featured at festivals such as MUTEK, Flow (Helsinki), and Version (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago) plus many other events in cities around the world at a variety of venues.
Biederman is currently represented by Art45 and lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.
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My work follows simultaneous, intertwined threads, creating a varied practice when examined traditionally. That is, if looked at it in a compartmentalized fashion, my practice would be situated within tactical media, radio, painting, design, performance, and art and technology. I choose, however, not to be restricted to any one of these mediums, but to, instead, allow for exchange and crossover between them through diverse combinations of engagements of media, place, content, and aim. I believe in the idea of the artist as artisan, the artist as provocateur and the necessity to present (and provoke) a vision of sublime emotion, one possible version of beauty that leads to new understandings and conceptions of the world, its systems, and potentials. In this way, the artist is an inventor, not in a conventional sense, but as one who serves as a beacon illuminating possibilities.