Warren Neidich
Warren Neidich is an artist, theorist and trained biologist. In 1997 he founded the site artbrain.org which includes The Journal of Neuroaesthetics. In 1999 he curated Conceptual Art as a Neurobiologic Praxis at Thread Waxing Space in New York City. He is a former research fellow at the Center for Cognition, Computation and Culture at Goldsmiths College, London (2004 – 2008) and is currently a Visiting Scholar at the TU Delft School of Architecture. In 2004 he received the ACE-AHRB Arts and Science Research Fellowship. A book with his collected essays Blow-up: Photography, Cinema and the Brain was published in 2003 by DAP. The publication Lost Between the Extensivity/Intensivity Exchange and Cognitive Architecture: From Biopolitics to Noo-Power is forthcoming in 2010. Dr. Neidich is a former research fellow in neurobiology in the laboratory of neurobiologist Roger Sperry at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. He was Clinical Instructor of Ophthalmology at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York City. Lives in Berlin and Los Angeles.