In the Fog of the Digital: AI and Neural-Digital Entanglement in Cognitive Capitalism
SFSIA 2026 | Berlin
June 29 – July 4
Team
Founder/Director: Warren Neidich
Assistant Director: Sarrita Hunn
Coordinator of Integrative Art Studies: Elena Bajo
Communications Strategist: Keturah Cummings
Warren Neidich is a text-based artist trained in fine art, architecture, and medicine whose work has been exhibited internationally including the Whitney Museum of Art, MOMA PS1 as well as the Venice Biennial. Recent awards include the Getty Research Institute Award, Hauptstadtkulturfond and Stiftung Kunstfond Neustart Kulture prizes in 2020. He is the founder and director of the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art 2015-. He is editor of the three-volume collection the Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism (2013, 2014, and 2017). The fourth edition of Neidich’s Glossary of Cognitive Activism was recently published by Eris Press, Athens.
Sarrita Hunn is a transdisciplinary artist, editor, curator, and web developer whose often collaborative practice focuses on the socially and politically transformative potential of cultural activity. They are the assistant director of Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art and director of the Wyvern Art Fund Scholarship Program. Additionally, they were co-founder/editor (with James McAnally) of MARCH, a journal of art & strategy (2020-25), as an expansion of their previous project Temporary Art Review (2011–2019); and co-curated (with Warren Neidich and Susanne Prinz) Activist Neuroaesthetics, a festival of events celebrating the 25-year anniversary of artbrain.org (2021).
Elena Bajo is a Spanish-American artist, choreographer, and educator whose transdisciplinary practice fuses plant intelligence, ancestral knowledge, and technological experimentation through sculpture, performance, film, and AI collaborations. Their work redefines posthuman ecologies through “transcorporeal choreographies” positioning human, more-than-human, and machine intelligence as co-authors — exemplified by acclaimed plant-AI collaborative textiles featured at Manifesta 15. She has exhibited, performed and lectured internationally including Manifesta 15, Performa Biennial NY, and Frieze London.
Keturah Cummings works with plant-based materials to critically examine and participate in constructed narratives about the “natural” world. Her photographs and videos situate the feminized body, porous and leaky, in relationship with the landscape, shattering notions of a separate and “pure” nature. A research-based practice has brought her to disparate forests as an artist-in-residence at Tropenstation La Gamba in Costa Rica and Arteles in Finland, among others. She also co-founded Nightmare City, which has been written about in Artforum and Modern Painters.