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Joseph Nechvatal (born January 15, 1951): 1176 is an American post-conceptual digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses.
- January 15, 1951 (age 72), Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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Marcel Duchamp. Because Duchamp’s entire artistic activity since the “definitive incompletion” of his masterpiece The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même), most often called The Large Glass(Le Grand Verre) in 1923 was an exercise in strategic invisibility, giving rise to objects and events whic...
I went to art school, moved to New York City, and began showing my drawings in non-profit spaces during the early 1980s and, through those exhibitions, was invited to show with the commercial galleries Jack Tilton, Brooke Alexander, and Paula Cooper. Good reviews in the press helped.
Dionysus, the apocalyptic, communication excess, the virus, and gender fluidity. Recently I have been inspired by the Virginia Woolf book Orlando (1928) and Antonin Artaud’s prophetic text The Theatre and the Plague, originally presented as a performance-lecture on April 6, 1933 at the Sorbonne (now an essential element in his book The Theater and ...
My paintings and sound art works are conceptually situated within my art-or-noise theory (see my book Immersion Into Noise) in that they make use of a complicated turmoil produced from close exchanges within figure/ground relationships that challenges us to think outside of the normal pop system of human perception.
The art of noise is the sensitive use of what Duchamp called the essential element in his art: delay. A finished work for me must also have a delay in perceiving signals―and that delay offers up opportunity for the viewer to fill in her own phantasmagorical content. That puts the imagination to work. If that happens, for me the work is successfully...
Orlando et la tempête (Orlando and the Tempest)―shown in the Fall of 2020 at Galerie Richard in Paris―is a series of new virus-modeled artificial life paintings that indirectly addresses issues of gender fluidity within our tempestuous viral and social-political times by imagining nonexistent scenes from the 1928 novel Orlando by Virginia Woolf (th...
I wish them to call my canvases ‘paintings’ because they are one-of-a-kind painted canvases that have been airbrush spray painted through a computer-robotic driven mechanism. Of course, this calls for an expanded definition of the craft of hand painting―one connected to Minimalist art fabrication techniques and Fluxus Conceptualism. They are post-C...
My 28 track, 59’ minute cassette (100 copies) Selected Sound Works (1981-2021) was published on October 15th by Chicago-based Pentiments experimental music and sound art label and has started selling right HERE along with mp3 tracks. My sound art double LP―called The Viral Tempest―will be released by Pentiments in early 2022 in an edition of 200, a...
Get close to your contemporaries. Work both in political and aesthetic domains. Mix the two. Study art history with a passion. It will reveal the elders of your tribe. Honor your elders. Do not copy them.
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Joseph James Nechvatal. Born. Chicago, Illinois, United States. Active in. New York, New York, United States. Paris, France. Arbois, France. Nationalities. American. Subscribe to our newsletter. The latest news, articles, and resources sent to your inbox weekly. Smithsonian American Art Museum. 8th and G Streets, NW.
- January 15, 1951
Oct 30, 2021 · For over forty years, Joseph Nechvatal has been making art out of noise. He talks to Robert Barry about viral symphonies, cassette magazines, and art squats. Joseph Nechvatal in 1983 at his art show at Brooke Alexander Gallery, NYC, photo by Peter Bellamy.
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May 13, 2015 · Joseph Nechvatal’s paintings and animations conjure up an enigmatic world of depth that signals a contemporary practice engaged in the fragile wedding of image production and image resistance.
Robert C. Morgan, “Digital Hybrids”, in Art Press #255 (March) Read the biography of Joseph Nechvatal. Discover interesting facts about Joseph Nechvatal on artnet.
