Ursula Biemann, educated in New York at SVA and the Whitney ISP and now based in Zurich, makes video essays charting the effects of globalisation and new technology on women in a changed world order. The US-Mexican border and women in the global hi-tech industry became the subject of her first video essay Performing the Border (1999, 43 min.). This was followed by Writing Desire (2000, 25 min.) on the "bride market" in cyberspace, Remote Sensing (2001, 53 min.), a topography of the global sex trade in the age of geographic information systems, and Europlex on the movements of people across Spanish-Moroccan borderlands. Her work has been shown in major festivals and art spaces around the world including the 2002 New York Documentary Festival at the Museum of Modern Art New York, the 2001 Havanna Biennale, Manifesta 3 the Biennale of Contemporary European Art 2000 in Ljubjana.

In addition to her video practice Biemann has worked as both a curator and collaborating artist on a number of large-scale international exhibitions. She curated Kültür at the 1997 Istanbul Biennale, examining migrancy, urban politics and Istanbul's plans to become a global city and Geography and the politics of mobility at the Generali Foundation in Vienna in 2003. Together with Lisa Parks she collaborated in Macrolab, Scotland 2002, producing the ESMA video, an Experiment in Satellite Media Arts and in Fall 2003, she collaborated on the project Total Work at the Fondacion La Caixa, Barcelona.

b-books Berlin published a book on her work titled, been there and back to nowhere - on gender in transnational spaces, 2000. Ursula Biemann currently teaches at the CCC Program at ESBA in Geneva and researches at the HGKZ, the School of Contemporary Art, Zurich where she published Stuff it - the Video Essay in the Digital Age. She maintains a website at www.geobodies.org