tekhnē

Pierce Warnecke is a multidisciplinary digital artist at the intersection of experimental music, digital arts, and video art. He has presented his work in the form of performances, concerts, and installations at Mutek, ZKM, CTM, Elektra, KW Institute, La Biennale Nemo, Sonic Acts, Martin Gropius Bau, MAC Montreal, Gray Area SF, Scopitone, LEV Festival, SXSW, FILE, etc. He co-curates the emitter micro label and festival with Kris Limbach and Seiji Morimoto in Berlin since 2011, in addition to co-curating Le Signal Festival in France with Louis Laurain. His music has been published on raster (DE), Room40 (AU), and Contour Editions (US).

Matthew Biederman has been performing, installing, and exhibiting works which explore themes of perception, media saturation, and data systems from a multiplicity of perspectives since the mid-1990s. Biederman was the recipient of the Bay Area Artist Award in Video by New Langton Arts in 1999, and First Place in the Visual Arts category of Slovenia’s Break21 festival. He has served as artist-in-residence at a variety of institutions and institutes, including the Experimental Television Center on numerous occasions, CMU’s CREATE lab, the Wave Farm, and many more.

During this residency Matthew Biederman and Pierce Warnecke will spent a week immersed in Latvian forests, bogs, and nature reserves to perform botanical surveys using photogrammetry and field recording as a means to document these protected environments.

The materials gathered will be used to create an audiovisual work that will be presented at the Skaņu mežs festival in October 2025.