Warren Neidich: Artistic Research in the 21st Century. Bringing the Outside/In

Neuroaesthetics | Symposium


Symposium im ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie,
22.-24. November 2012
In Kooperation und mit Unterstützung der Gemeinnützigen
Hertie-Stiftung.


Using Neuroaesthetics, which I began lecturing upon in 1996 at
the School
of Visual Arts in New York City, as a model I will first explain
the differences between artistic, art historical and scientific
research. 
Subsequently, through
my art works If it looks like art it probably isn‘t, The
Education of the Eye, Rainbow Brushes, The Noologist‘s Handbook
and finally The Sound of Cats Meowing I will illustrate the power
of art as a cultural and neuroplastic modulator. Finally, I will
explore artistic research in the context of Cognitive Capitalism.


Warren Neidich is an artist and writer who works in multiple
media. He has
recently been exploring the conditions of cognitive
capitalism using noise music as an inspiration
for installations made of speakers, drawings, and videos
which set up what he refers to as dissonant resonances. He has
been
exhibited internationally at such institutions as MoMa PS1, the
Whitney Museum
of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the
Institute of
Contemporary Arts, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; MuKHA,
Antwerp; and
Galerie Fons Welters in Amsterdam. He recently received the
Fulbright Scholar
Program Fellowship, Fine Arts Category, 2011 and the Vilem
Flusser Theory
Award, Berlin, 2010. He is author of numerous publications
including Blow-up:
Photography, Cinema and the Brain (2002), Lost Between the
Extensivity/Intensivity Exchange (2009), Cognitive Architecture:
From Biopolitics to Noopolitics (2011). His work The Noologist’s
Handbook and Other Art Experiments is forthcoming in 2012 with
Archive Books, Berlin.