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Matthew Biederman (a.k.a. DelRay), has been performing, installing
and exhibiting works which explore themes of cut-up electronic image
delivery, media saturation, and data systems 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.
His installations have been exhibited in the US, South America, and
Europe, in a variety of festivals and venues such as 7 Festival
Internacional (Lima, Peru) 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. Most recently, he
has begun to work in collaboration, forming an international group
called simpel whose work concentrates on social interaction rather than
gadgetry whose installations have been part of ZeroOne2006 and the
SCAPE Biennial in New Zealand.
As a performer, he has developed his work through developing
settings to stimulate new work methodologies, namely through a
site-specific work at SIGGRAPH, residencies at the Makrolab as well as
the Experimental Television Center, and various other projects. His
work as a visual performer allowed him to work alongside musicians
since 1999, most recently performing at the historic Theatre du
Chatelet in Paris. In 2004 he embarked on a long-term collaboration
with Projekt Atol and the rx:tx crew developing the visual display
systems of the Signal-Sever! performance series events, including,
among others, 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). Currently, his artistic operation is set up
in exile in Montreal, Canada.
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