Warren Neidich

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Warren Neidich brings to any discussion platform a unique interdisciplinary position that he calls “trans-thinking”.
He currently uses video and neon to create cross polinating conceptual text based works that reflect upon
situations at the border zone of art, science and social justice. His performative and sculptural work, the
Pizzagate Neon, 2018, recenty on display at the Venice Biennial, 2019 analyzed through a large hanging
neon sculpture the relations of Fake News, the networked attention economy, the evolving techno-cultural
habitus and  the co-evolving architecture of the brain. His recent conceptual project Drive-By-Art ( Public
Sculpture in This Moment of Social Distancing) just opened on the South Fork of Long Island and Los
Angeles to some acclaim including reviews in the NY Times, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, Time Out
and LA Magazine.
He is founder and director of the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, 2015-2020,  theory intensive
postgraduate course that attracts post-graduate students worldwide operating in  Los Angeles, NYC and
Berlin.This year it will concern the topic of Care, Caring and Repair.  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 at Professor of Art at the
Weissensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin. He has been visiting lecturer at the departments of art at Brown
University, GSD Harvard University, Columbia University, Princeton University, Southern California
Institute of Architecture, UCLA, La Sorbonne Paris, University of Oxford and Cambridge University, UK.
He is American editor of Archive Books and author of over 20 books. His recent books The Glossary of
Cognitive Activism, Archive Books, Berlin and Neuromacht (in German) Merve, Leipzig have been
recently published.