Worlds of Light between Neuroscience and Cognition
At the very beginning of his career, Warren Neidich (*1958, New York/USA) posed the question of how profoundly our thinking is shaped by images, media, and structures of power. To this day, his practice operates at the intersection of art, neuroscience, and political theory.
Warren Neidich harnesses light, neon, and projection to make perception and cognition tangible, revealing how sensory experience, neural processes, and social conditions intersect.
“In cognitive capitalism the brain and mind are the new factories of production, and we are cognitariats or mental laborers working in front of screens creating data.” Warren Neidich, 2026
As the founder of critical activist neuroaesthetics, he brings together interdisciplinary expertise from photography, painting, neurobiology, architecture, and installation into exhibitions around the world. Recently his work has changed course to navigate in which ancestral knowledges are combined with European enlightened ones to create powerful eco-planetary epistemological tools for peaceful coexistence.
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Photos / credits
Warren Neidich | A Proposition for an alt-Parthenon Marbles Recoded: The Phantom as Other | Date of Work: 2021-2026 | Size: 12.5 ft by 10ft | Material: glass tubing, argon gas, aluminum, silver print, LED, ink, aluminum | We Don’t Want to Live in a Universe | We Want to Live in a Pluriverse | 2023| Priska Pasquer Gallery | Paris/F | exhibited at Kindl, Berlin, March 2026 | The Iloggocene,The Age of Dizziness | Photographer: Richard Mueller |
Termin: 2026