an alternative
documenta
...what a 21st century
documenta could look like
by
Christian de Lutz
the three graces
2011 66x44Ó
computer-robotic assisted acrylic on velvet canvas
NechvatalÕs work mix painting,
programming, politics and biology. He has been working in digital media since
the 1980s and in particular with viruses since 1999. His algorithmically and
robotically assisted paintings develop from programs where imagery is in part
dissolved by computer viruses, a process in which the artist creates an
Òinterface between the biological and the technological.Ó
His writings include Towards an
Immersive Intelligence and Immersion into Noise.
Nechvatal, who receiveda PhD in 1999 in
The Philosophy of Art and New Technology has developed a set of theories
concerning our increasing immersion in the virtual (Viractualism).
If painting is to be rescued from the
ruins of postmodernism, it may be through Joseph NechvatalÕs unique body of
works and writings.
jaundiced ignudiO
2003 44x66Ó
computer-robotic assisted acrylic on canvas
REAL TIME {a procedure of ignudiO
excess} Òis a body of
paintings from 2003 by Joseph Nechvatal. It is about the viral hermaphroditic
body suspended in the ready position of timeless excessive - a sort of sullied
Epicurean Hellenism simultaneously antediluvian and post-human. For this
sub-theme of double-sexness, Nechvatal drew inspiration from MichelangeloÕs
famous series of ignudis.
published here June 20th, 2012
http://alternativedocumenta.tumblr.com/post/25516483161/joseph-nechvatal-paint-robot-virus