"The idea of artistic research is a hot topic today especially in our moment of the information economy and intellectual speculation. The problem, as I see it, is that the word research is bound to specific scientific connotations which are connected to its specific methodologies which are at odds with the way art is made and produced like the conditions of reproducibility, constancy, and one-of-a-kind. Artistic Research as a model must be assembled within its own variable territories, histories, logics, methods, materials, spaces, temporalities and utilize apparatuses and tools unique to its production in order to investigate itself and other spheres of knowledge that lie beyond its limits. First as a way to invigorate itself and secondly as a means of deterritorializing institutional regimes of knowledge. Mind you I am not calling for a retrenchment of modernist media specificity or even of an autopoesis of aesthetic production but rather as a way that art can still maintain its own identity while simultaneously instigating states of exception and new paradigmatic shifts. Such is the case with my research into Cognitive Capitalism and Neurobiopolitics. I would like to use four examples of my own art production created in the past four years to elucidate a thick understanding of what the Artistic Method means and the outputs it elicits. They are as follows; 1. The Education of the Eye 2.The Rainbow Brushes, 3. The Noologists Handbook and 4. How does one translate a text that is not a text? How does one perform a score that is not a score."

Warren Neidich

Warren Neidich is a Berlin based artust who explores the interfaces between culture,memory, phenomenology, social mind and post -Fordist economic structures. Currently his practice has been directed towards noise compositions as neurobiological modifiers. Recent awards include The Fulbright Specialist Program, Fine Arts Category, University of Cairo, 2013, The Murray and Vickie Pepper Distinguished Visiting Artist and Scholar Award, Pitzer College, 2012, The Fulbright Specialist Program Fellowship, Fine Arts Category, Faculty of Fine Arts – University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia, 2011 and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, Transmediale, Berlin, 2010. Selected exhibitions include The Whitney Museum of Art, New York City, P.S.1, MOMA, Long Island City, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Ludwig Museum, Koln, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles,California, Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the MAK, Vienna. He is co-editor of Cognitive Archtitecture: From Biopolitics to Noo-power published by 010 Press, Rotterdam 2011. Forthcoming in 2013 is The Psychopathologies of Cogntive Capitalism Part 1, and Berlin Works, The Noologists Handbook and other Art Experiments, Archive Books, Berlin.

The lecture will take place at the Townhouse Library.