Matthew Biederman has been making, installing and exhibiting works that explore themes of perception, media saturation and data systems from a multiplicity of perspectives since the mid-1990s. Biederman received the Bay Area Artist Award in Video from New Langton Arts in 1999, and first prize in the Visual Arts category at the Break21 festival in Slovenia. He has been an artist-in-residence at various institutions and institutes, including the Center for Experimental Television on numerous occasions, CMU’s CREATE Lab, the Wave Farm and many more.

In 2007 he co-founded with Marko Peljhan the Arctic Perspective Initiative, an international group of individuals and non-profit organisations whose aim is to promote the creation of open infrastructures of authorship, communication and dissemination for the circumpolar region. While working at the intersection of art, science and community, API has also participated in group exhibitions and biennials around the world, as well as in several European solo exhibitions, one of which was named “Top 10” of 2010 by ARTFORUM magazine (Arctic Perspectives, HMKV Dortmund).