Joseph Nechvatal (born 1951) is a post-conceptual digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses. Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Digital artist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Aesthetics is commonly known as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. ... A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user. ...

Life and work

Joseph Nechvatal, Fini, 1980, 4x7'

Joseph Nechvatal Orgiastic abattOir

Joseph Nechvatal Orgiastic abattOir : flawless ignudiO 2004 computer-robotic assisted acrylic on canvas 224x168cm

Joseph Nechvatal was born in Chicago. He studied fine art and philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Cornell University and Columbia University, where he studied with Arthur Danto while serving as the archivist to the minimalist composer La Monte Young. From 1979, he exhibited his work in New York City, primarily at the Brooke Alexander Gallery and Universal Concepts Unlimited. He has also exhibited in Paris, Cologne, Alalst, Belgium, Lund and Munich. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixels Full resolution (808 × 606 pixel, file size: 251 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) photo and artwork by Joseph Nechvatal and released into the public domain here I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixels Full resolution (808 × 606 pixel, file size: 251 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) photo and artwork by Joseph Nechvatal and released into the public domain here I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public... For other uses, see Chicago (disambiguation). ... Southern Illinois University is a university in southern Illinois with two institutions and multiple campuses. ... Cornell redirects here. ... Alma Mater Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ... Arthur Coleman Danto (b. ... An archivist surveying an unprocessed collection of materials. ... For other uses, see Minimalism (disambiguation). ... La Monte Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer whose eccentric and often hard-to-find works have been included among the most important post World War II avant-garde or experimental music. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... Cologne (German: , IPA: ; local dialect: Kölle ) is Germanys fourth-largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than...   IPA: is a city in SkÃ¥ne in southern Sweden. ... For other uses, see Munich (disambiguation). ...

His work in the early 1980s was graphite drawings. During that period he was associated with the artist group Colab and helped establish the non-profit cultural space ABC No Rio. In 1983 he co-founded the avant-garde electronic art music audio project Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine. In 1984, Nechvatal began work on an opera called XS: The Opera Opus (1984-5) with the no wave musical composer Rhys Chatham. Colab is the commonly used abbreviation of the New York City artists group Collaborative Projects. ... Interior of ABC No Rio ABC No Rio is a social center located at 156 Rivington street in New York Citys Lower East Side that was founded in 1980. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... Electronic music has existed, in various forms, for more than a century. ... No Wave was a short-lived but influential music and art scene that thrived briefly in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the punk scene there. ... Rhys Chatham (born September 19, 1952, New York City[1]) is an American composer, guitarist, and trumpet player, primarily active in avant-garde and minimalist music. ...

He began using computers to make "paintings" in 1986 and later, in his signature work, began to employ computer viruses. These "collaborations" with viral systems positioned his work as an early contribution to what is increasingly referred to as a post-human aesthetic. In computer security technology, a virus is a self-replicating program that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other executable code or documents (for a complete definition: see below). ... Posthuman Future by Michael Gibbs A posthuman or post-human is a hypothetical future being whose capabilities so radically exceed those of present humans as to be no longer human by current standards. ...

From 1991–1993 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, which was an artistic experiment with computer viruses and computer animation. He exhibited at Documenta 8 in 1987. Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of disease. ... Arbois is a French town and commune with a population of 4,000 located in the Jura département. ... A building of the Royal Saltworks The Saline Royale (Royal Saltworks) at Arc-et-Senans, in the forest of Chaux near Besançon, France is notable as an early Enlightenment architectural project to rationalize industrial buildings and processes according to a philosophical order. ... Ledouxs Rotonde de la Villette in Paris Claude Nicolas Ledoux (March 21, 1736_November 18, 1806) was a French neoclassical architect. ... In computer security technology, a virus is a self-replicating program that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other executable code or documents (for a complete definition: see below). ... The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames. ... from documenta 6 documenta is one of the world‘s most important exhibitions of modern and contemporary art which now takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. ...

In 1999 Nechvatal obtained his Ph.D. in the philosophy of art and new technology concerning virtual reality at Roy Ascott's Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA), University of Wales College, Newport, UK (now the Planetary Collegium at the University of Plymouth). There he developed his concept of the "viractual", which strives "to create an interface between the biological and the technological."^[1] According to Nechvatal, this is a new topological space. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... This article is about the simulation technology. ... // Pioneering the place of cybernetics and telematics in art, Roy Ascott has been working with issues of art, technology and consciousness since the 1960s. ... WHAT IS THE PLANETARY COLLEGIUM? Founded and directed by Professor Roy Ascott, the Planetary Collegium is a worldwide transdisciplinary research community whose innovative structure involves collaborative work both in cyberspace and at regular meetings around the world. ... The University of Plymouth is the largest university in the southwest of England, with over 30,000 students and is the fifth largest UK university based on student population. ...

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, inspired by the a-life work of John Horton Conway, particularly Conway's Game of Life, by the general cellular automata work of John von Neumann and by the genetic programming algorithms of John Koza. Viral phenomena are objects or patterns able to replicate themselves or convert other objects into copies of themselves when these objects are exposed to them. ... This article is about a field of research. ... A Life is a bittersweet comedy by Irish playwright Hugh Leonard. ... John Horton Conway (born December 26, 1937, Liverpool, England) is a prolific mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. ... Gospers Glider Gun creating gliders. The Game of Life is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. ... A cellular automaton (plural: cellular automata) is a discrete model studied in computability theory and mathematics. ... For other persons named John Neumann, see John Neumann (disambiguation). ... Genetic programming (GP) is an evolutionary algorithm based methodology inspired by biological evolution to find computer programs that perform a user-defined task. ... Flowcharts are often used to graphically represent algorithms. ... John R. Koza is a computer scientist and a consulting professor at Stanford University, most notable for his work in pioneering the use of genetic programming for the optimization of complex problems, and for the evolution of computer programs which solve them. ...

In 2005 he exhibited Computer Virus Project II works (computer-robotic paintings, digital prints, a digital audio installation and two live electronic virus-attack installations) in a solo show called cOntaminatiOns at Le Chateau de Linardie in Senouillac, France.

In 2006 Nechvatal received a retrospective exhibition entitled Contaminations at the Butler Institute of American Art's Beecher Center. Nechvatal has also contributed to digital audio work with his viral symphOny, a collaborative musical symphony created by using his computer virus software at the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University. Digital audio comprises audio signals stored in a digital format. ... Alfred University (Alfred) is a small, comprehensive university in the Village of Alfred in western New York State, USA, an hour south of Rochester and two hours southeast of Buffalo. ...

Nechvatal teaches art theories of immersive virtual reality and the viractual at the School of Visual Arts in New York City (SVA) and at Stevens Institute of Technology. Immersive virtual reality is a hypothetical future technology that exists today as virtual reality art projects, for the most part. ... The School of Visual Arts (SVA), is an art school in Manhattan, New York City and is one of the nations leading independent colleges of art and design. ... Stevens Institute of Technology is a technological university located on a 55 acre (223,000 m²) campus in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, founded in 1870 on the basis of an 1868 bequest from Edwin A. Stevens. ...

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Footnotes

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References

• Donald Kuspit The Matrix of Sensations VI: Digital Artists and the New Creative Renaissance
• Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito The Edge of Art, Thames & Hudson Ltd, p. 213
• Christiane Paul Digital Art, Thames & Hudson Ltd, pp. 57-58
• Donald Kuspit "Del Atre Analogico al Arte Digital" in Arte Digital Y Videoarte, Kuspit, D. ed., Consorcio del Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, pp. 33-34 & 3 color images, pp. 210 -212
• Robert C. Morgan Digital Hybrids, Art Press volume #255, pp. 75-76
• Frank Popper From Technological to Virtual Art, MIT Press, pp. 120-123
• Johanna Drucker "Joseph Nechvatal : Critical Pleasure
• Alan Liu The Laws of Cool, Chicago Press, pp. 331-336 & 485-486
• Robert C. Morgan Voluptuary: An algorithic hermaphornology, Tema Celeste Magazine, volume #93, p. 94
• Joe Lewis Joseph Nechvatal at Universal Concepts Unlimited, Art in America Magazine, March 2003, pp.123-124
• Bruce Wands Art of the Digital Age, London: Thames & Hudson, p. 65
• Margot Lovejoy Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age Routledge 2004
• Willoughby Sharp Joseph Nechvatal, Machine Language Books, 1984, 74 pages
• Joseph Nechvatal, Immersive Excess in the Apse of Lascaux, Technonoetic Arts 3, no3. 2005
• Brandon Taylor Collage Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2006, p. 221
• Wayne Enstice & Melody Peters, Drawing: Space, Form, & Expression, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, pp.312-313
• Robert C. Morgan Nechvatal’s Visionary Computer Virus in Gruson, L. ed. 1993. Joseph Nechvatal: Computer Virus Project. Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans: Fondation Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, pp. 8-15
• Frank Popper Ecrire sur l'art : De l'art optique a l'art virtuel, L'Harmattan 2007, pp. 222-223
• Fred Forest Art et Internet, Editions Cercle D'Art / Imaginaire Mode d'Emploi, pp. 48 -51

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External links

• Joseph Nechvatal's website
• Examples of Joseph Nechvatal's art music at UbuWeb
• music2eye
• Viractualism defined at CTheory
• example of red viral attack in the computer fine arts collection
• Interview with Joseph Nechvatal
• Nechvatal's Ph.D. dissertation Immersive Ideals / Critical Distances' : A Study of the Affinity Between Artistic Ideologies Based in Virtual Reality and Previous Immersive Idioms
• Artist Statement on Digital Painting and Artificial Life
• Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine audio archive at UbuWeb
• Our Digital Noology: Catherine Perret in conversation with Joseph Nechvatal