Warren Neidich
American artist (born 1958)
Warren Neidich ( NYE-dik/; born 1958) is an American conceptual artist, theorist, and educator whose multimedia work explores the intersection of art, neuroscience, social justice, and the digital age. Operating between Los Angeles and Berlin, he transforms complex scientific and philosophical ideas into installations, writings, and public art projects. He was a professor at Kunsthochschule Weißensee School of Art, Berlin and Goldsmiths, London.
Neidich is founding director of the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (SFSIA). He has collaborated with artists, curators and critics including: Barry Schwabsky (co-director of SFSIA), Armen Avanessian, Nicolas Bourriaud, Tiziana Terranova, Franco Berardi, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Isaac Julien, Hito Steyerl, Chris Kraus (American writer), and many others.
His work has been exhibited at numerous institutions including: MoMA PS1, Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California Museum of Photography, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In relation to his exhibitions and extended theories he has edited and published over 10 books, including Neuromacht, Merve Verlag (German), 2017, the Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Part One (2013), Two (2014), and Three (2017), Archive Books (English), the Noologist's Handbook and Other Art Experiments, Anagram, 2013, From Noopower to Neuropower: How Mind Becomes Matter, 2010 and, Cognitive Architecture. From Biopolitics to Noopolitics. Architecture & Mind in the Age of Communication and Information, 2010.
He was collaborator, along with Elena Bajo and others, on Exhibition 211 in New York, 2009.
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