Joseph Nechvatal
dal 22/5/2002 al 3/7/2002
Segnalato da
22/5/2002
Joseph Nechvatal
Universal Concepts Unlimited, New York
This exhibition consists of recent computer-robotic assisted paintings on canvas and a complimentary custom real-time operative artificial-life viral computer application which consumes the file images on which the paintings are based. His current work stems from a computer virus program developed by the artist in 1991 as a Louis Pasteur artist-in-residence in Arbois, France. Nechvatal's featured paintings translate intimate body images of both sexes into basic pictorial units of which he and his computer-virus mutate and metamorphose.
Universal Concepts Unlimited announces the opening of new media pioneer Joseph
Nechvatal's exhibition "vOluptuary : an algorithic hermaphornology". This exhibition
consists of recent computer-robotic assisted paintings on canvas and a complimentary
custom real-time operative artificial-life viral computer application which consumes the file
images on which the paintings are based.
Since 1986, Joseph Nechvatal has been making computer-robotic assisted paintings. His
paintings allow the tradition of canvas painting to integrate into our present digital times. In
this sense he has been creating an interface between the virtual and the actual - what
Nechvatal calls the "viractual". It is through this exploration of viractuality which has
brought Nechvatal to the creation of complex numeric viractual images which typically
consist of a mixture of drawing, digital-photography, painting, written language, and
externalized computer code - all of which is submitted to computational manipulations
(including viral attacks). His current work, called "vOluptuary: an algorithic
hermaphornology" (1) stems from a computer virus program developed by the artist in
1991 as a Louis Pasteur artist-in-residence in Arbois, France. Nechvatal's featured
paintings translate intimate body images of both sexes into basic pictorial units of which he
and his computer-virus mutate and metamorphose.
Joseph Nechvatal has exhibited his work widely in Europe and the United States, both in
private and public venues. He is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County
Museum, the Moderna Musset in Stockholm and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. His
work was included in Document 8. His web-site, with full CV, collected writings, and
various essays on his work can be found at : http://www.nechvatal.net
For further information contact Marian Ziola or Wolf-Dieter Stoeffelmeier
Image: Joseph Nechvatal, pansexual feeriquer (delicate) computer-robotic assisted acrylic on canvas 51 x 96 inches
Universal Concepts Unlimited
507 West 24th Street, NY 10011 New York
Tues. - Sat. 11am-6pm