with works by Kathryn Andrews, David Horvitz, Agnieszka Kurant, Jonathan Monk, Jacquelene Drinkall, Lorenzo Sandoval and Suzanne Treister.

A bevy of new technoceuticals that technologically assisted telepathic capacity (such as brain–computer interfaces, cortical implants, bio neuro-headsets, and neural ‘smart’ dust) are already in use. Elon Musk created Neuralink to overcome what he considers to be the main obstacle to optimum human–machine interaction in communication: bandwidth. Touch screens and keyboards are slow and inefficient means to interact with a computer. However, “neural lace” and “neural dust” provides a much faster high-bandwidth interaction with which Musk hopes to make consensual telepathy possible for everyone by using brain-computer interfaces to intensify their mental capacities in the workplace. Today, in times of cognitive capitalism, the proletariat working on the assembly line has been replaced by the cognitariat working on the World Wide Web using virtual platforms to create data. The works included in this third and last part of the Activist Neuroaesthetics show address these new brain-based mediated telepathic and telemetrix technologies which open an unguarded window into our unconscious in various - sometimes humorous ways.

Image details: Suzanne Treister,Technoshamanic System: New Cosmological Models for Survival, 2020-21; courtesy the artist and Annely Juda Fine Art, London

HOURS: Tue-Sat 14-19h