DASH Archives - June 2015

The ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART features WARREN NEIDICH

www.digitalartarchive.at 

Warren NEIDICH's interdisciplinary work as artist and writer focuses on
the technological and neuroscientific conditions of contemporary
society.  In his writings about cognitive capitalism and cultural
production, such as The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Part
One (2013), he examines the influence of technology on visual culture.

NEIDICH works with sound and light installations, photography and film
as well as internet downloads and software. His art works portray
history in its narrativity and question the meaning of subjectivity in
the new media, always analyzing the cognitive and ergonomic influence on
both, something NEIDICH refers to as 'Neurobiopolitics'.

Norman BRYSON: Crucial to Neidichs narrative is that, in modernity, the
technologies that have evolved in the sphere of visual communication
have come to operate on the subject with particular vehemence, not only
in the realm of meaning but in their determining influence on the
primary habits and dispositions of experience.

Sven-Olov WALLENSTEIN: Bringing together concepts from neurology and
the life sciences, political philosophy and aesthetic theory, theories
of immaterial labor and post-Fordist production, Neidich creates a maze
of concepts and connections […] exploring them not just as theoretical
concepts, […] but as physical and corporeal zones that we can and indeed
do inhabit, and that we traverse in the most minute of our everyday
activities.

"Departing from recent insights of brain research, the trained
biologist NEIDICH searches for strategies to manipulate the process of
ongoing cerebral reconstruction. Through artistic means as for instance
the performative gesture Warren Neidich attempts to re-conquer those
cognitive realms which are normally subjected to the effects and
mechanisms of the mass media in a globalised world defined by
neoliberalism. By joining scientific and aesthetic knowledge elegantly,
Neidichs work commences right there where reality is first of all
constructed: in the neuronal networks of the brain."  Villem Flusser
Award 2010: Jury-Statement (Oliver GRAU, Marcel MARBURGER, Sabeth
BUCHMANN) 

In 'The Search Drive' (2014), NEIDICH recreated his own identity in a
video work based on a software program utilized by the NSA. Google,
Facebook, Wikipedia, Instagram are hacked and ransacked to trace over
time an autobiographical sketch of activities and friendships. A fiction
based on unconfirmed facts is thus built and substitutes for any actual
portrait. A uncorroborated story of a fictitious life grows into a kind
of monstrosity the result of a program gone haywire.

Warren NEIDICHs work was internationally exhibited among others at
Transmediale, Whitney Museum, Kunsthaus Zürich, Manifesta and The Walker
Art Center.

Find out more about Warren NEIDICH >
https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/artists/general/artist/neidich.html


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ADA: THOUSANDS OF ARTWORKS
Since its foundation in 1999, the ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (former
Database of Virtual Art) has grown to be the most important online
archive for digital art. In cooperation with established media artists,
researchers and institutions it has been documenting the rapidly
evolving world of digital art and its related fields for more than a
decade and contains today a selection of thousands of artworks at the
intersection of art, science and technology. 

COLLABORATIVE ARCHIVING OF DIGITAL ART
The large assortment of information on Warren NEIDICH  and hundreds of
other leading artists and their artworks were carried out by the artists
themselves in assistance with members of the ADA community. The new ADA
web tool allows members to archive artist statements, works
descriptions, literature, information on exhibitions, high resolution
images, blueprints, videos etc. Artists and scholars are invited to
contribute actively to the archive and to work collaboratively on the
documentation and analysis of digital art. 

EXPANDED DOCUMENTATION FOR THE NEEDS OF DIGITAL ART
Due to the processual, ephemeral, interactive, technology-based and
fundamentally context-dependent character of digital art, it is at risk
for becoming extinct without an adequate documentation. Therefore, the
ADA is based on an expanded concept of documentation, which takes
account of the specific conditions of digital art. 

ARTISTS represented, among many others: Rebecca ALLEN, Suzanne ANKER,
Cory ARCANGEL, Roy ASCOTT, Louis BEC, Maurice BENAYOUN, Paolo CIRIO,
Charlotte DAVIES, FLEISCHMANN & STRAUSS, Masaki FUJIHATA, Ken GOLDBERG,
Agnes HEGEDÜS, Lynn HERSHMAN LEESON, Ryoji IKEDA, Eduardo KAC, Ken
RINALDO, KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH, Lev MANOVICH, George LEGRADY, Golan LEVIN,
Rafael LOZANO-HEMMER, Joseph NECHVATAL, Michael NAIMARK, David ROKEBY,
Jeffrey SHAW, Julius v. BISMARCK, Paul SERMON, Karl SIMS, SOMMERER &
MIGNONNEAU, STANZA, Nicole STENGER, THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD, Peter WEIBEL,
et al.

Advisory board: Christiane PAUL, Roy ASCOTT, Erkki HUHTAMO, Gunalan
NADARAJAN, Martin ROTH, et. al.

ADA team:
Oliver GRAU 
Maga. Michaela SEISER (Editor, Community Admin)
Mag. Sebastian HALLER, Maga. Viola RÜHSE, Maga. Valerie Kummer,  Maga.
Wendy COONES, Dipl.-Kff. (FH) Ann-Christin RENN, Maga. Janina Hoth
(Editorial Team)

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