URSULA BIEMANN
Ursula Biemann is an artist, theorist and curator based in Zurich. She studied in New York at the School of Visual Arts (BFA) and at the Whitney Independent Study Program. In recent years, she has produced a considerable body of work on migration, mobility, technology and gender. In a series of widely exhibited video essays, as well as in several books, she has focused on migrant labor: from smuggling on the Spanish-Moroccan border to women in the global sex industry. Recent multi-channel videos include "Black Sea Files" and "Sahara Chronicle". Biemann's books include "Geography and the Politics of Mobility", "Stuff It - The Video Essay in the Digital Age" and her new monograph "Geobodies" (Actar, 2008).
Ursula Biemann is a Researcher at the Institute for Art and Design Theory in Zurich.
See her projects at www.geobodies.org
