{"id":1244,"date":"2015-05-13T13:58:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T17:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2023-04-24T19:33:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:33:58","slug":"joseph-nechvatal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/joseph-nechvatal\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Nechvatal"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5848\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1244-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/josephnechvatal.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/josephnechvatal.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/josephnechvatal.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1245 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Joseph-Nechvatal.jpg?resize=190%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Joseph Nechvatal\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Joseph-Nechvatal.jpg?resize=190%2C300&amp;ssl=1 190w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Joseph-Nechvatal.jpg?resize=650%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Joseph-Nechvatal.jpg?resize=624%2C983&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Joseph-Nechvatal.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Joseph-Nechvatal.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/>Joseph Nechvatal\u2019s 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. He brings a subversive reading to computational media by presenting an artistic consciousness that articulates contemporary concerns regarding surveillance, encryption, safety, privacy, identity and objectivity.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1986 Nechvatal has worked with ubiquitous electronic visual information, computers and computer-robotics. His computer-robotic assisted paintings and computer software animations are shown regularly in galleries and museums throughout the world. From 1991-1993 he worked as artist-in-resident at the Louis Pasteur Atelier and the Saline Royale \/ Ledoux Foundation&#8217;s computer lab in Arbois, France on The Computer Virus Project: an experiment with computer viruses as a creative stratagem. In 2002 he extended that artistic research into the field of viral artificial life through his collaboration with the programmer St\u00e9phane Sikora.<\/p>\n<p>Nechvatal earned his Ph.D. in the philosophy of art and new technology at The Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA) University of Wales College, Newport. From 1999 to 2013, he taught at the School of Visual Arts (SVA).\u00a0His archive is housed at The Fales Library (Downtown Special Collection) at N.Y.U.\u00a0His viral symphOny is archived and available for <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ViralSymphony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download here<\/a>.\u00a0His book of essays 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.\u00a0In 2011 his book <a href=\"http:\/\/openhumanitiespress.org\/immersion-into-noise.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Immersion Into Noise<\/a> was published by the\u00a0University of Michigan Library&#8217;s\u00a0Scholarly Publishing Office\u00a0in conjunction with the\u00a0Open Humanities Press. He is the editor of the\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/punctumbooks.com\/titles\/minoy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Min\u00f3y Punctum Press book\/cd<\/a>\u00a0and his collected essays on art in Paris at Hyperallergic can <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/author\/joseph_nechvatal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">be seen here<\/a>.\u00a0His current show,\u00a0bOdy pandemOnium, is at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artlaboratory-berlin.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art Laboratory Berlin<\/a>. \u00a0Learn more on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyewithwings.net\/nechvatal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> his website.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1246\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1246 size-large\" 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