Having studied photography, neuroscience, medicine and architecture, Warren Neidich, who works between Los Angeles and Berlin, brings to any discussion platform a unique interdisciplinary position that he calls “trans-thinking.” He currently uses video and neon to create grand interdisciplinary conceptual works that reflect interests at the border zone of art and science. Important to this work is his artistic and theoretical reflections upon the information and knowledge economies and their recent interest in the brain. His aesthetically driven sculptural work, the Pizzagate Neon, 2018, is currently on display at the Venice Biennial, 2019. Delicately hovering in the volumetric space of the stunning Zuecca Project Space, located on Guiddeca in Venice, his 3-D text based mind map reveals the entangled relationship between the iCloud and the array of connections in the brain called the connectome.
He is founder and director of the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, 2015-2020, a theory intensive postgraduate course that attracts post-graduate students worldwide operating in Los Angeles, New York, and Berlin. He is a recipient of the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, Transmediale, AHRB/ACE Arts and Science Research Fellowship, Bristol, and The Fulbright Scholarship. Additionally he was former tutor in the departments of visual art, computer science, and cultural studies at Goldsmith College London as well as recently serving as professor of art at the Weissensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin. He has been visiting lecturer at the departments of art at Harvard University, Columbia University, Princeton University, Brown University, Southern California Institute of Architecture, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Santa Cruz, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, TU Delft School of Architecture, Architectural Association School of Architecture, Chelsea Art College, Slade College of Art, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and The London School of Fashion just to name a few. Author of more than 20 publications, he recently published The Glossary of Cognitive Activism, Archive Books, Berlin.
Portrait by Olivia Fougeirol
