May 2024. Awarded a Saas-Fee Summer Art Institute (SFSAI) scholarship, NZ artist Gill Gatfield will participate in SFSAI New York City with 25 international artists, researchers and writers. Founded in 2015 by artist and theorist Warren Neidich, the nomadic art academy runs in alternate years in Berlin and NYC with shifting programs in contemporary critical theory. “Art, Apparatus and Neural-Digital Entanglement in Cognitive Capitalism NYC 2024" maps artistic forms of resistance in order to critically engage with new neural and brain-based technologies and consider potential new forms of practical insurgency. The intensive program of seminars, deep readings, experimental workshops, and public lectures is led by an interdisciplinary faculty, in NYC 2024 comprising: Defne Ayas, Davide Balula, Suparna Choudhury, Stephanie Dinkins, Thyrza Goodeve, Lyle Ashton Harris, Isaac Julien, Liz Magic Laser, Reza Negarestani, Warren Neidich (founder/director), Alison Nguyen, Diane Severin Nguyen, Barry Schwabsky, Martha Schwendener, Mindy Seu, and Anuradha Vikram.