<nettime-ann> The ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART features WARREN NEIDICH

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The ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART features WARREN NEIDICH

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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 [â] exploring them not just as theoretical concepts, [â] 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 ZÃrich, 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 HEGEDÃS, 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 RÃHSE, Maga. Valerie Kummer,  Maga. Wendy COONES, Dipl.-Kff. (FH) Ann-Christin RENN, Maga. Janina Hoth (Editorial Team)

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