Warren Neidich: Rumor To Delusion
Warren Neidich: Rumor To Delusion
Bd. 263 - Rebellion und Anpassung (Sep/Okt 2019) von Ann-Katrin Günzel
Vol. 263 - Rebellion and Adaptation (Sep/Oct 2019) by Ann-Katrin Günzel
“Der amerikanische post-Konzeptkünstler, Theoretiker und Neurowissenschaftler Warren Neidich (* 1958) beschäftigt sich in seiner künstlerischen Praxis analytisch und zugleich kritisch mit den Bedingungen der menschlichen Wahrnehmung. Dabei untersucht er, welchen Einfluss das Internet und neue Technologien, veränderte Kommunikationsmedien und -modalitäten sowie dadurch bedingt veränderte Rezeptionsmuster auf die materiellen Zustände des Gehirns haben. Die täglich aus aller Welt ununterbrochen, schnell und wiederholt als visuelle Zeichen simultan auf uns eintreffenden Meldungen und Berichte nehmen unser Bewußtsein direkt in Beschlag und lassen Relevanz, Tragweite und Substanz der einzelnen Meldungen dabei ebenso verschwimmen, wie deren Glaubwürdigkeit und Seriosität. Da unsere zeitgenössische Informations- und Kommunikationskultur vor allem das Visuelle betont, basiert auch unsere Wahrnehmung fast ausschließlich auf Bildern, was zur Folge hat, dass das Auge die menschliche Wahrnehmung in einer nie dagewesenen Weise dominiert. Aufgrund der veränderten Wahrnehmungsbedingungen verändern sich auch die psychischen und physischen Rezeptionsmechanismen der Menschen. Wenn das Gehirn in seiner Struktur einer permanenten Konditionierung unterliegt, die sich der Veränderung der Umwelt bzw. des Umfeldes anpasst, kann es, so Neidichs Analyse, über den „Prozess der umweltgesteuerten Neuromodulation“ gelenkt werden. Das bedeutet, dass manipulierte oder erfundene Nachrichten, sog. Fake News uns genauso ungefiltert als Wahrheit erreichen, wie wahrhaftige Fakten über das Weltgeschehen.” – Ann-Katrin Günzel
ENGLISH: “In his work, American post-conceptual artist, theorist, Warren Neidich (b. 1958), who studied neuroscience and medicine, analytically and critically examines the conditions of human perception. In doing so, he explores the impact the Internet and other new technologies, novel communication media and modes – as well as the new patterns of reception emerging from them – have on the material conditions of our brains. On a daily basis, newsflashes and reports from all over the world bombard us with information – continually, fast and ceaselessly. Taking the shape of visual signs, they flare up simultaneously, transfixing our conscious minds. Meanwhile, relevance, scope and substance of these pieces of information blur, and so does their credibility and reliability. Today’s culture of information and communication stresses the visual, stimulating us with an incessant flow of images. The eye is dominating human perception in ways it never has before. As Neidich reveals, the new perceptual conditions we live in also inform the underlying psychic and physical mechanisms of human perception. If the structure of our brains is being modelled and remodelled by the changing contexts and environments we inhabit, it also can – respectively – be conditioned by a “process of environmentally driven neuromodulations”, as Neidich warns. Thus, even manipulated and made-up pieces of information (so called ‘fake news’) affect us just as deeply and directly as truthful facts about actual world events.” – Ann-Katrin Günzel
A Day at the Beach and Some Other Interesting Times at the 2019 Venice Biennale
A Day at the Beach and Some Other Interesting Times at the 2019 Venice Biennale
August 12, 2019 by David Ebony
“In the Zuecca Project Space, “Rumor to Delusion” a show by Los Angeles- and Berlin-based artist Warren Neidich, addresses more recent political conundrums. The show’s centerpiece, an enormous chandelier with colorful neon signage, Pizzagate Neon (2017), explores the role of news organizations and social media in creating the present post-truth environment. Neidich uses as a starting point the odious “Pizzagate” rumor that coincided with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Directly addressing Rugoff’s Biennale theme, “May You Live in Interesting Times,” Neidich considers this “rumor” as a seminal example of “fake news,” the present cultural malady of partisan disinformation. In tandem with Rugoff, he warns of its disturbing and far-reaching implications for the future.” – David Ebony
COGNITIVE CAPITALISM: Neidich, Denny, Popescu, Harney, and Ndikung at the SFSIA Berlin
COGNITIVE CAPITALISM: Neidich, Denny, Popescu, Harney, and Ndikung at the SFSIA Berlin
August 2, 2019 by Niklas Egberts
Niklas Egberts: Let’s start by talking about the central topic of the summer school. What constitutes capitalism’s becoming cognitive?
Warren Neidich: The mind and the brain are the new factories of the 21st century. We no longer work on assembly lines, producing things with our hands; instead, we work on various platforms on the Internet. There is a term for this new precarious class: it’s called the cognitariat. We are constantly producing data through searching and communicating online. That data, is crucially important to the way that feelings and emotions have become commoditized, all the while creating huge profits for the corporate elite.
The idea of cognitive capitalism is generated by the thought that the brain is not simply inside the skull but is also external to it, consisting of social, cultural, political and technological networks that are constantly evolving. These changing conditions in the world are recorded and activate changes in the mutable architecture of the brain – in a word, neuroplasticity.
Bellinis, sex and self-loathing: the diary of a party crasher at the Venice Biennale
Bellinis, sex and self-loathing: the diary of a party crasher at the Venice Biennale
June 17, 2019 by Christopher Taylor
“It’s my birthday. It’s not. It’s tomorrow, but I’m not going to let the opportunity to dine out on it pass me by. I drop in quickly at an installation to do with Carpenters workshop gallery at Ca’ D’Oro followed by an exquisite show at a popup of the legendary Colnaghi gallery. I also manage to take in a standout light installation by Warren Neidich at the Zuecca Project space Giudecca.” – Christopher Taylor
Historic Bauer Palladio Hotel Offers Prime Access To Venice's Newest Contemporary Art District
Historic Bauer Palladio Hotel Offers Prime Access To Venice's Newest Contemporary Art District
May 25, 2019 by Joanne Shurvell
“Giudecca Island, a ten minute ride across the grand canal by public vaporetto, has had a strong association with contemporary art for a while so it’s no surprise that it has just officially launched itself as Venice’s newest art district. The Venice Biennale Arte has used spaces on the island since the 1980s. And before that, in 1976, Giudecca was the site of various performances by Marina Abramović.” – Joanne Shurvell
Twelve Essential Offsite Exhibitions Of The 2019 Venice Biennale
Twelve Essential Offsite Exhibitions Of The 2019 Venice Biennale
May 19, 2019 by Joanne Shurvell
“Zuecca Projects on Guidecca island hosts American artist Warren Neidich’s solo exhibition Rumor to Delusion. The centerpiece of the show is a colorful neon display of words referencing the crazy “Pizzagate” fake news story of the 2016 Presidential campaign that accused Hillary Clinton and her staff of running a child sex slave ring out of the basement of the Comet Ping Pong pizza parlor in Washington D.C.” – Joanne Shurvell
FAD Magazine Venice Biennale Top 10
FAD Magazine Venice Biennale Top 10
May 17, 2019 by Lee Sharrock
“Warren Neidich’s punchy installation ‘Rumor to Delusion’ at Zuecca Project Space leaves a huge impression with its sensory overload of a 3 dimensional neon sculpture reflected in a giant mirror, juxtaposed by a multi-screen news channel spouting various forms of ‘fake news’. Inspired by the Pizzagate conspiracy and the contemporary post-truth era, Neidich presents a complex web of fabricated stories and hacked emails, which tell a dark story behind the rainbow-coloured sculpture. Curated by Lauri Firstenberg and Antonia Alampi, Neidich’s astute exhibition examines the Trump malaise of fake news through the bizarre Pizzagate myth, which was a fabricated story leading to a witch-hunt of American high fliers such as Hillary Clinton and legendary art world figures including Marina Abramovic.” – Lee Sharrock
‘I Didn’t Want My Art to Come Out While I Was an Actress’: At the Venice Biennale, Rose McGowan Reflects on Her New Life as an Artist
‘I Didn’t Want My Art to Come Out While I Was an Actress’: At the Venice Biennale, Rose McGowan Reflects on Her New Life as an Artist
May 14, 2019 by Sarah Cascone