As part of the collaborative project Kunsthalle Leipzig (2012-2017), in 2013 Jeff Weber and artist Snejanka Mihaylova undertook an initiation journey to study Coptic Christianity, specifically its Gnostic component. The idea of gnosis as a personal path to knowledge resonated with Weber’s photography project Attempt at a Personal Epistemology, which he has been working on since 2009 in an attempt to define the paradoxical place where the artist operates at the crossroads between objective knowledge and private experience. A body of abstract photograms, Untitled (Neural Networks) is the outcome of speculation on neuronal activity and its transposition to a digital circuit. The images of black and white grids are generated by a network of artificial neurons — data processing software that Weber developed to emulate how neurons are interconnected in the brain.