Joseph Nechvatal | |
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Born | January 15, 1951
Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | (age 73)
Known for | Post-conceptual art, digital art, sound art, art theory, art criticism |
Movement | Post-conceptualism generative art |
Joseph Nechvatal (born January 15, 1951) [1]: 1176 is an American post-conceptual digital artist and art theoretician [2] who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses.
Joseph Nechvatal was born in Chicago. [1]: 1176 He studied fine art and philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Cornell University and Columbia University. [1]: 1176 He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy of Art and Technology at the Planetary Collegium at University of Wales, Newport [3] and has taught art theory and art history at the School of Visual Arts. [3] He has had many solo exhibitions, including one in Berlin [4]
His work in the early 1980s chiefly consisted of postminimalist gray graphite drawings that were often photomechanically enlarged. [5] Beginning in 1979 he became associated with the artist group Colab, organized the Public Arts International/Free Speech series, and helped established the non-profit group ABC No Rio. [6] In 1983 he co-founded the avant-garde electronic art music audio project Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine. [7] In 1984, Nechvatal began work on an opera called XS: The Opera Opus (1984-6) [8] with the no wave musical composer Rhys Chatham. [9]
He began using computers and robotics to make post-conceptual paintings in 1986 [10] and later, in his signature work, began to employ self-created computer viruses. [11] [12] From 1991 to 1993, he was artist-in-residence at the Louis Pasteur Atelier in Arbois, France and at the Saline Royale/ Ledoux Foundation's computer lab. There he worked on The Computer Virus Project, his first artistic experiment with computer viruses and computer virus animation. [13] He exhibited computer-robotic paintings at Documenta 8 in 1987. [14] [15]
In 2002 he extended his experimentation into viral artificial life through a collaboration with the programmer Stephane Sikora of music2eye in a work called the Computer Virus Project II. [16]
Nechvatal has also created a noise music work called viral symphOny, a collaborative sound symphony created by using his computer virus software at the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University. [17] [18] [19] In 2021 Pentiments released Nechvatal's retrospective audio cassette called Selected Sound Works (1981-2021) and in 2022 his The Viral Tempest, a double vinyl LP of new audio work. [20]
From 1999 to 2013, Nechvatal taught art theories of immersive virtual reality and the viractual at the School of Visual Arts in New York City (SVA). A book of his collected essays entitled Towards an Immersive Intelligence: Essays on the Work of Art in the Age of Computer Technology and Virtual Reality (1993–2006) was published by Edgewise Press in 2009. Also in 2009, his book Immersive Ideals / Critical Distances was published. [21] In 2011, his book Immersion Into Noise was published by Open Humanities Press in conjunction with the University of Michigan Library's Scholarly Publishing Office. [22]
Viractualism is an art theory concept developed by Nechvatal in 1999 [23] [24] from Ph.D. research [25] Nechvatal conducted at the University of Wales College. There he developed his concept of the viractual, which strives to create an interface between the actual and the virtual. [26]
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Joseph Nechvatal | |
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Born | January 15, 1951
Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | (age 73)
Known for | Post-conceptual art, digital art, sound art, art theory, art criticism |
Movement | Post-conceptualism generative art |
Joseph Nechvatal (born January 15, 1951) [1]: 1176 is an American post-conceptual digital artist and art theoretician [2] who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses.
Joseph Nechvatal was born in Chicago. [1]: 1176 He studied fine art and philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Cornell University and Columbia University. [1]: 1176 He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy of Art and Technology at the Planetary Collegium at University of Wales, Newport [3] and has taught art theory and art history at the School of Visual Arts. [3] He has had many solo exhibitions, including one in Berlin [4]
His work in the early 1980s chiefly consisted of postminimalist gray graphite drawings that were often photomechanically enlarged. [5] Beginning in 1979 he became associated with the artist group Colab, organized the Public Arts International/Free Speech series, and helped established the non-profit group ABC No Rio. [6] In 1983 he co-founded the avant-garde electronic art music audio project Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine. [7] In 1984, Nechvatal began work on an opera called XS: The Opera Opus (1984-6) [8] with the no wave musical composer Rhys Chatham. [9]
He began using computers and robotics to make post-conceptual paintings in 1986 [10] and later, in his signature work, began to employ self-created computer viruses. [11] [12] From 1991 to 1993, he was artist-in-residence at the Louis Pasteur Atelier in Arbois, France and at the Saline Royale/ Ledoux Foundation's computer lab. There he worked on The Computer Virus Project, his first artistic experiment with computer viruses and computer virus animation. [13] He exhibited computer-robotic paintings at Documenta 8 in 1987. [14] [15]
In 2002 he extended his experimentation into viral artificial life through a collaboration with the programmer Stephane Sikora of music2eye in a work called the Computer Virus Project II. [16]
Nechvatal has also created a noise music work called viral symphOny, a collaborative sound symphony created by using his computer virus software at the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University. [17] [18] [19] In 2021 Pentiments released Nechvatal's retrospective audio cassette called Selected Sound Works (1981-2021) and in 2022 his The Viral Tempest, a double vinyl LP of new audio work. [20]
From 1999 to 2013, Nechvatal taught art theories of immersive virtual reality and the viractual at the School of Visual Arts in New York City (SVA). A book of his collected essays entitled Towards an Immersive Intelligence: Essays on the Work of Art in the Age of Computer Technology and Virtual Reality (1993–2006) was published by Edgewise Press in 2009. Also in 2009, his book Immersive Ideals / Critical Distances was published. [21] In 2011, his book Immersion Into Noise was published by Open Humanities Press in conjunction with the University of Michigan Library's Scholarly Publishing Office. [22]
Viractualism is an art theory concept developed by Nechvatal in 1999 [23] [24] from Ph.D. research [25] Nechvatal conducted at the University of Wales College. There he developed his concept of the viractual, which strives to create an interface between the actual and the virtual. [26]
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