Artist Ursula Biemann is a Swiss artist, author, and video essayist whose research-based artistic practice involves fieldwork in remote locations from Greenland to Amazonia. There, she investigates climate change and the ecologies of oil, ice, forests and water. Biemann is appointed Doctor honoris causa in Humanities by the Swedish University Umea (2008). She has received the 2009 Prix Meret Oppenheim, the Swiss Grand Award for Art, and the 2018 Prix Thun for Art and Ethics. 

Forest Mind, a complex, layered video installation, unites diverse strands of knowledge on the intelligence of plants and plant-human relationships. Biemann takes seriously the role of seeing and observing in video-making as a vital part of world-making and draws on scientific as well as shamanic perspectives of engaging with the world around us.