Warren Neidich ( ) is an American artist who lives in

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and Los Angeles. He was a professor at Kunsthochschule Weißensee School of Art, Berlin and visiting scholar at

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, Los Angeles. Neidich is founding director of the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (SFSIA). He has collaborated with artists, curators and critics including:

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(co-director of SFSIA),

Armen Avanessian Armen Avanessian (born 1973) is an Austrian philosopher, literary theorist, and political theorist. He has taught at the Free University of Berlin, among other institutions, and held fellowships in the German departments of Columbia University a ...

Nicolas Bourriaud Nicolas Bourriaud (born 1965) is a curator and art critic, who has curated a great number of exhibitions and biennials all over the world. With Jérôme Sans, Bourriaud cofounded the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, where he served as codirector from 199 ...

, Tiziana Terranova,

Franco Berardi Franco "Bifo" Berardi (born 2 November 1949) is an Italian Marxist philosopher, theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism. ...

Hans-Ulrich Obrist Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) is a Swiss art curator, critic, and historian of art. He is artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries, London. Obrist is the author of ''The Interview Project'', an extensive ongoing project of interviews. He is ...

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Hito Steyerl Hito Steyerl (born 1 January 1966) is a German filmmaker, moving image artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary.

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, and many others. His work has been exhibited at numerous institutions including:

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Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), ...

, LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art,

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, ICA –

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, London,

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, Cologne, and

Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, t ...

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, 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 Elena Bajo is a visual artist, born in Spain, who currently works out of Los Angeles, California, USA. Biography Bajo received a Master of Arts in Architecture in 2002 from the Escola de Architectura in Barcelona Spain. She then received a Mast ...

and others, on

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in New York, 2009.

Main themes

A major theme in Neidich's practice can widely be summarised as neuroaesthetics (not to be confused with mainstream

neuroesthetics Neuroesthetics ( or neuroaesthetics) is a relatively recent sub-discipline of empirical aesthetics. Empirical aesthetics takes a scientific approach to the study of aesthetic perceptions of art, music, or any object that can give rise to aestheti ...

), an area of critical and constructive thought, which can loosely be seen as the confluent impact of the brain on a cultured environment and, importantly, vice versa, upon which he began lecturing in 1996 at the

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in New York City. His website artbrain.org, which includes ''The Journal of Neuro-Aesthetic Theory'', was published online in 1997. Cognitive capitalism (

cognitive-cultural economy Cognitive-cultural economy or cognitive-cultural capitalism is represented by sectors such as high-technology industry, business and financial services, Personal service sector, personal services, the Mass media, media, the Cultural industry, cultur ...

), 'critical'

neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, development ...

neuroplasticity Neuroplasticity, also known as neural plasticity, or brain plasticity, is the ability of Neural circuit, neural networks in the brain to change through growth and reorganization. It is when the brain is rewired to function in some way that diffe ...

, post-

Workerism Workerism is a political theory that emphasizes the importance of or glorifies the working class. Workerism, or , was of particular significance in Italian left-wing politics. As revolutionary praxis Workerism (or ) is a political analysis, w ...

immaterial labor Immaterial labor is a Marxist framework to describe how value is produced from affective and Cognition, cognitive activities, which, in various ways, are commodification, commodified in capitalism, capitalist economies. The concept of immaterial lab ...

, and epigenesis are recurring themes since 1996, while earlier themes, between 1985 and 1996, were interested in culturally based work about race, politics,

historical reenactment Historical reenactment (or re-enactment) is an educational entertainment, educational or entertainment activity in which mainly amateur hobbyists and history enthusiasts dress in historic uniforms or costumes and follow a plan to recreate aspect ...

, fictive documentary,

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, photographic practice, the archive, and

anachronistic An anachronism (from the Greek , 'against' and , 'time') is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of people, events, objects, language terms and customs from different time periods. The most common type ...

technology. On these topics he has published several books including: Neuromacht, 2017, Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Part One, Two, and Three, ''The Noologist's Handbook and Other Art Experiments'', 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, and ''Blow Up: Photography, Cinema and the Brain'', 2003. Neidich's work has examined the co-evolution of the history of art, brain, and mind, which provides a critical foundation to his understanding of neuroaesthetics as an ontologic process. The key to neuroaesthetics is the investigation of apparatuses in which a network of heterogeneous discourses is administered. As the world and technology change, so to the apparatuses which organize it, and the cognitive strategies with which one can understand it. This is especially true of the information age, which distributes such apparatuses non-linearly and profusely. Neidich's work is inspired by

Michael Snow Michael Snow (born December 10, 1928) is a Canadian artist working in a range of media including film, installation, sculpture, photography, and music. His best-known films are ''Wavelength'' (1967) and '' La Région Centrale'' (1971), with the f ...

Stan Brakhage James Stanley Brakhage ( ; January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003) was an American filmmaker. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century experimental film. Over the course of five decades, Brakhage created a large ...

Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as Fran� ...

and the

Apparatus Theory Apparatus theory, derived in part from Marxist film theory, semiotics, and psychoanalysis, was a dominant theory within cinema studies during the 1970s, following the 1960s when psychoanalytical theories for film were popular. Overview Apparatus ...

of Stephen Heath.

Studies and teaching

Warren Neidich has studied in diverse fields since 1970 including Photography,

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, (BA Magna Cum Laude

Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r ...

Neurobiology Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, development ...

(as research fellow at

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, under the laboratory of

Roger Wolcott Sperry Roger Wolcott Sperry (August 20, 1913 – April 17, 1994) was an American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist, cognitive neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate who, together with David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize ...

who later won the 1981

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) and Architecture, he is also a Board Certified

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from

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. Neidich has collaborated with

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on several occasions since 2003, when he was visiting artist and lecturer. In 2005 he organized the first symposium on Neuroaesthetics, and in 2014, with

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, he organized a symposium titled 'The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: The Cognitive Turn Organized'. At Delft School of Design,

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in The Netherlands (where he was a PhD candidate under Professor Dr. Arie Graafland), in 2008 he co-organized "Architecture in Mind: From Biopolitics to Noo politics."

Art practice and theories

Early works (1985–1996)

From 1985 to 1997 Neidich worked on a number of projects investigating the relationship between power and representation, focusing on reenactment, staging, fictive documentary and performance. Major works from this time include the

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studies The Battle of Chickamauga and Amputation without Anaesthesia exhibited at The Photographic Resource Center, Boston in 1991 and "''American History Reinvented''" (1986–1991) at Burden Gallery,

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, New York City, in 1989. Neidich's appropriation of historical moments by means of photography has been discussed by

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, Graham Clarke, and David Joselit. The series of altered photographs "Unknown Artist", which recast the early 20th-century art coterie as a social rather than an individual phenomenon, were installed at Berlin's Paris Bar in 1994 in collaboration with

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and Michel Wertle. In 1994, Neidich's photography-based sculptural installation ''Collective Memory'' and ''Collective Amnesia'' (1991–94) used the culturally-constructed story of

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to reflect upon pop culture's vulgarization of history. Neidich's slide show projection "Beyond the Vanishing Point: Media Myth in America" was shown at N.Y. Kunsthalle, NYC in 1995. It traced a journey across America fifty years after

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, culminating in a surrealist photographic exposé of the media encampment that grew outside the courthouse during the

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in Los Angeles (1995–97). The book Camp O.J., published by D.A.P. exposed the condition of

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The introduction of Neuroaesthetics (1996–2002)

In 1996 Neidich, began to explore the phenomenological conditions surrounding the cultural and historical aspects of his work. These research projects took the form of texts and lectures entitled "Neuroaesthetics", first delivered at the

in New York, 1995–1996 when Neidich was visiting lecturer in the Department of Photography and Related Media under Charles Traub. In 1997 With the help of Nathalie Angles, current director of ''Residency Unlimited'', he launched the platform artbrain.org, consisting of ''The Journal of Neuroaesthetics'' and ''Netspace Gallery''. Neuroaesthetics, (differing from the scientific approach with the same name often spelled

), believes that artists in all their modes such as poetry, cinema, installation art and architecture, using their own spaces, apparatuses, materials, sense of time, and performative gestures, can elaborate truths about the

noumenal In philosophy, a noumenon (, ; ; noumena) is a posited object or an event that exists independently of human sense and/or perception. The term ''noumenon'' is generally used in contrast with, or in relation to, the term ''phenomenon'', which ...

and

phenomenal A phenomenon ( : phenomena) is an observable event. The term came into its modern philosophical usage through Immanuel Kant, who contrasted it with the noumenon, which ''cannot'' be directly observed. Kant was heavily influenced by Gottfried W ...

world on part with those generated by the sciences. These truths compete effectively in the marketplace of ideas. The

post-structuralist Post-structuralism is a term for philosophical and literary forms of theory that both build upon and reject ideas established by structuralism, the intellectual project that preceded it. Though post-structuralists all present different critiques ...

brain/mind/body/world complex, in which cultural mutations are transposed into parallel changes in the mind, brain and body, expressed in works such as "Brainwash" (1997), Neidich's first application of his hybrid

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, developed greater tenacity in 1999 when Neidich curated "Conceptual Art as Neurobiological Praxis" at Thread Waxing Space in New York which "''rather than being a show about the collaboration between art and science or a reductive methodology of how the brain works, the exhibition attempted to promote the idea of a becoming brain''" and included artists:

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, Charline von Heyl,

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, Simon Grennan and

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, and others. Neidich's video-works from this period include ''Apparatus'', ''Memorial Day'' (1998), ''Kiss'', and ''Law of Loci''(1998–99). The exhibitions "The Mutated Observer Part 1" (2001), and "The Mutated Observer Part 2" (2002) at the

showcased a number of handmade apparatuses, so-called "''Hybrid Dialectics''", in vitrines adjacent to those of the museum's collection.

Recent work (2006–2017)

Neidich's essay ''The Neurobiopolitics of Global Consciousness'', published in the Sarai Reader Turbulence''' in 2006, clearly connected the ideas of

neural plasticity Neuroplasticity, also known as neural plasticity, or brain plasticity, is the ability of neural networks in the brain to change through growth and reorganization. It is when the brain is rewired to function in some way that differs from how it ...

, epigenesis and Empire. Topics such as Neuro

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were extended to include the political impact of

and the

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on the production of architecture and built space, specifically in relation to the ways in which intense sensory and perceptual effect are now used to organize cultural attention. These ideas later evolved into a series of performative drawings staged in his studio at

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in Stockholm (2008) and at

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, New York (2009). The same year Neidich also organized the conference "The Power of Art" at The Drawing Center, New York. In 2008 Onomatopee published Neidich's book ''Lost Between the Extensivity-Intensivity Exchange'' for which he outlined that the "inauguration of the 21st century could be described as a time of cultural torpor resulting from free floating anxiety, ambivalence, and wavering", going on to say, "the condition, suggested by the title, that of being lost in the ‘in-between zone’ of extensive and intensive labor and two evolving partially incommensurable world views, the local (tribal) and global (cosmopolitan) or the nation-state and the Earthling, merged"

''"What has become obvious to me is that in our moment of cognitive capitalism in which the brain and mind are the new factories of the twenty-first century, forms of activism invented during industrial capitalism like refusal to work, absenteeism, and labor strikes are no longer up to the task"'' – Warren Neidich 2017

In ''Pizzagate'' (2017) Neidich returned to his earlier work on apparatus entitled 'Hybrid Dialectics' (1997–2003). In the work he delineates the new apparatuses of the knowledge economy like

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and

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as they produce new forms of subjectivity.

Drive-By-Art

In May 2020, in response to the impact of the Covid19 epidemic, Neidich curated the exhibition Drive-By-Art (Public Art in This Moment of Social Distancing) which took place at various locations, first in the Hamptons and then later in Los Angeles. The exhibitions featured work by 174 artists spread over multiple locations in "an attempt to bring back a sense of solidarity to the artistic and cultural community". The exhibition was featured in numerous publications including Artforum, Time, The Chicago Tribune and The New York Times.

Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art

The Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (SFSIA) is a nomadic academy that originated in

Saas-Fee Saas-Fee () is the main village in the Saastal, or the Saas Valley, and is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The village is situated on a high mountain plateau at 1,800 meters (5,900 feet), surrounded ...

, Switzerland in 2015, and moved to

in 2016 where it could engage with the local active art scene. SFSIA maintains the moniker today simply as a nod to its origins. It was founded by fine artist and theorist Warren Neidich, and is co-directed by art critic and poet

. The school has included many notable collaborators in workshops or as speakers. SFSIA was born as a parallel program to the activities at the neighboring

European Graduate School The European Graduate School (EGS) is a private graduate school that operates in two locations: Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and Valletta, Malta. History It was founded in 1994 in Saas-Fee, Switzerland by the Swiss scientist, artist, and therapist, Pao ...

(EGS), sharing the evening public program, however with no formal connection. Schwabsky, in conversation with Jennifer Teets for Art & Education, has described his desire for the school to respond to a "crisis" across the sector wherein art academies are "controlled by administrators—not by faculty—an ever-expanding layer of bureaucrats who are removed from the real needs of students and the realities of teaching and research." Each year SFSIA has approached a new theme, the founding being 'Art and the Politics of Estrangement' (2015), followed by 'Art and the Politics of Individuation: Affect and the Multiple Body in Cognitive Capitalism' (2016) and 'Art & the Politics of Collectivity' (2017). The 2018 program circulates around the theme of 'Art and Politics in the Age of Cognitive Capitalism' and will take place in Los Angeles and Berlin. List of collaborators: * Elena Agudio (2017) * Marie-Luise Angerer (2017) *

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(2016) *

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Heidi Ballet
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'Bifo' (2015, 2017) *

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(2015) *

(2017) * Arne De Boever (2017) * Yann Moulier Boutang (2017) * Mathieu Copeland (2015, 2017) *

Jodi Dean Jodi Dean (born April 9, 1962) is an American political theorist and professor in the Political Science department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York state. She held the Donald R. Harter ’39 Professorship of the Humanities and So ...

(2017) * Nikola Dietrich (2017) *

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(2015) * Gale Elston (2015) * Oriol Fontdevila (2016) * Anselm Franke (2015) * Charles Gaines (2015) * Julieta Gonzalez (2017) *

Krist Gruijthuijsen Krist Gruijthuijsen (born 1980 in the Netherlands) is a curator and art critic, and since July 2016, Director of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Germany. At KW, he has curated exhibitions with, among others, Hanne Lippard, Ian Wilson, ...

(2017) * Anke Hennig (2015) * Robby Herbst (2017) * Helen Hester (2017) * Yuk Hui (2017) *

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(2015) * Brandon LaBelle (2017) * Quinn Latimer (2015) * Dan Levenson (2017) * Deborah Ligorio (2017) *

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(2017) * Jens Maier-Rothe (2017) * Antonia Majaca (2017) * Lambros Malafouris (2017) * Augustin Maurs (2017) * Achim Menges (2015) *

Ari Benjamin Meyers Ari Benjamin Meyers (born 1972 in New York) is an American artist and composer. Meyers received his training as a composer and conductor at the Juilliard School, Yale University, and Peabody Institute. His practice includes creating musical pe ...

(2017) * Suzana Milevska (2015) *

Hans Ulrich Obrist Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) is a Swiss art curator, critic, and historian of art. He is artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries, London. Obrist is the author of ''The Interview Project'', an extensive ongoing project of interviews. He is ...

(2017) *

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(2017) * Peter Pelbart (2017) *

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(2016) * John Rajchman (2015) * Gerald Raunig (2015, 2017) * Dorothee Richter (2015) * Tomas Saraceno (2016) * Aaron Schuster (2016) *

Hito Steyerl Hito Steyerl (born 1 January 1966) is a German filmmaker, moving image artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary.

(2015) * Ludwig Seyfarth (2017) * Eric Golo Stone (2015) * Jennifer Teets (2017) * Ana Teixeira Pinto (2016) * Tiziana Terranova (2017) * Ben Vickers (2015, 2017) * Anuradha Vikram (2017) * Joanna Warsza (2017) * Markus Weisbeck (2017) * Ming Wong (2017)

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

*''The Politics of Color'', Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V., Berlin, DE (2017) *''The Palinopsic Field'',

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Located in Hollywood, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) is a nonprofit exhibition space and archive of the visual arts for the city of Los Angeles, California, United States, currently under the leadership of Sarah Russin. History In t ...

, Los Angeles, CA (2016) *''The Artists’ Library'', LAXART, Los Angeles, CA *

Manifesta Manifesta, also known as the European Nomadic Biennial, is a European pan-regional contemporary cultural biennale. History Manifesta was founded in 1994 by Dutch art historian Hedwig Fijen. The first edition took place in Rotterdam. One of ...

10 Parallel Program, curated by Joanna Warsza, Saint Petersburg, RU (2014) * The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, EG (2013) *Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam, NL(2011) *Galerie Moriarty, Madrid (2011) *Glenn Horowitz Gallery, East Hampton, NY, US (2010) *Gallery Magnus Müller, Berlin (2008) *

Trolley Gallery Trolley Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Shoreditch, east London, which emerged independently and alongside the already established Trolley Books Trolley Books is an independent UK publisher, specialising in art and photography books. ...

, London (2007) *Andrew Mummery Gallery, New York (2006) *

Storefront for Art and Architecture Storefront for Art and Architecture is an independent, non-profit art and architecture organization located in SoHo, Manhattan in New York City. The organization is committed to the advancement of innovative positions in architecture, art and desi ...

, New York (2002) *Edward Mitterrand Gallery (2002) *

Laguna Art Museum The Laguna Art Museum (LAM) is a museum located in Laguna Beach, California, on Pacific Coast Highway. LAM exclusively features California art and is the oldest cultural institution in the area. It has been known as the Laguna Beach Art Associati ...

, Laguna Beach, CA (2001) *

UCR/California Museum of Photography The UCR/California Museum of Photography (CMP) is an off-campus institution and department of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of California, Riverside, California, USA. The collections of UCR/CMP form the la ...

, Riverside, CA (2001) *

Villa Arson The Villa Arson, also referred to as the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts à la Villa Arson (National School of Fine Arts at the Villa Arson), is a French art museum, elite school and research institution for contemporary art, located in Nice ...

, Nice, France (1994) *Photographic Resource Center,

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

(1991) *

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the mo ...

List Visual Arts Center Established in 1950, the List Visual Arts Center (LVAC) is the contemporary art museum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is known for temporary exhibitions in its galleries located in the MIT Media Lab building, as well as its admini ...

, Cambridge, MA (1991) *

, New York (1989)

Selected group exhibitions

*''The Search Drive, Globale: Infosphäre'' at

Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe The ZKM , Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (until March 2016: ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology), a cultural institution, was founded in 1989. and since 1997 is located in a listed industrial building in Karlsruhe, Germany, a former muni ...

, curated by

Peter Weibel Peter Weibel (; born 5 March 1944 in Odessa, USSR) is an internationally known Austrian post-conceptual artist, curator and new media theoretician. He started out in 1964 as a visual poet but soon jumped from the page to the screen within the sen ...

, Daria Mille and Giulia Bini,

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

(2015) *''The Fax Show'',

Drawing Center The Drawing Center is a Manhattan, New York, museum and a nonprofit exhibition space that focuses on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary. History The Drawing Center was founded by former assistant curator of drawings at ...

, curated by João Ribas, New York (2009) *''Library, Librarie'',

, London (2005) *''Everything is connected he, he, he,''

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art is a privately owned contemporary art gallery in Oslo in Norway. It was founded and opened to the public in 1993. The collection's main focus is the American appropriation artists from the 1980s, but it is ...

, Oslo, Norway (2004) *''Bitstreams'',

, New York (2001) *''Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts'',

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Pa ...

, curated by Robert Sobieszek, Los Angeles (1996) *''New York Stories'',

, New York (1991) *''Des Vessies et des Lanternes,''

Palais de Tokyo The Palais de Tokyo (''Tokyo Palace'') is a building dedicated to modern and contemporary art, located at 13 avenue du Président-Wilson, facing the Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The eastern wing of the building belongs to ...

, Paris (1991) *''Photography of Invention'', (touring exhibition),

Smithsonian American Art Museum The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds o ...

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contemporary ...

and

, curated by Joshua Smith (1989) *

Queens Museum The Queens Museum, formerly the Queens Museum of Art, is an art museum and educational center located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in the borough of Queens in New York City, United States. The museum was founded in 1972, and has among its pe ...

Queens Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...

, New York (1988) *

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

, Germany (1988) *

White Columns White Columns is New York City’s oldest alternative non-profit art space. White Columns is known as a showcase for up-and-coming artists, and is primarily devoted to emerging artists who are not affiliated with galleries. All work submitted is ...

, New York (1988)

Public projects

*2004 Madrid Abierto Public Sculpture, Madrid, Spain

Books

* ''The Color of Politics'', BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE, 2018. *''Neuromacht,'' Merve Verlag (German), 2017. *''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. *''Cognitive Architecture. From Biopolitics to Noopolitics. Architecture & Mind in the Age of Communication and Information'', 2010. *''Lost Between the Extensivity/Intensivity Exchange,'' Onomatopee, 2009. *''Earthling,'' Pointed Leaf Press, New York, NY, 2005. *''Blow-up: Photography, Cinema and the Brain'', DAP/UCR/California Museum of Photography, 2003. *''Camp O.J.,'' Bayly Art Museum, 2001. *''Cultural Residue: Contamination and Decontamination,'' Villa Arson, Nice, France, 1994. *''Unknown Artist,'' Fricke and Schmid, 1994. *''Historical in (Tervention),'' MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2001. *''American History Reinvented,'' Aperture, 1989.

References

External links

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American History ReinventedArtbrain.orgExhibition 211
an exhibition space in New York City that ran from March to August 2009, initiated by:

, Eric Anglès, Jakob Schillinger, Nathalie Anglès and Warren Neidich
Lost Between the Extensivity/Intensivity Exchange Bookdrive-by-art.orgSFSIA
{{DEFAULTSORT:Neidich, Warren American contemporary artists Living people 1958 births Washington University in St. Louis alumni Delft University of Technology alumni