Joseph Nechvatal
Biography
1951 Born in Chicago, Illinois
Lives and works in Paris and in New York
Education
1974 B.F.A. Southern Illinois University
1974-75 M.F.A. Studio Work Cornell University
1977-78 M.Phil Work in Philosophy Columbia University
1999 Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Art at the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA), University of Wales,
Newport, Wales, U.K.
1999 Professeur à The School of Visual Arts, NYC
2003 Professeur au Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N.J.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2009 terra incOgnitO, WM Turner Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2008 Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris
2006 The Butler Institute of American Art’s Beecher Center, Youngstown, OH
Metaphysics and the Virtual, Roger Smith Lab Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Contaminations, Le Château de Linardié, Senouillac, France
Translaocation of the Virtual Reality, Galerie In Situ, Aalst, Belgium
Ex-naturae, la Chapelle des Templiers, Metz, France
2004 Aventures Virales, Galerie Mabel Semmler, Paris
Real Time, Universal Concepts Unlimited Gallery, New York, NY
After Virus, Galerie RLBQ, Marseille, France
Viral Counter-Attack, Espace Landowski, Paris
After Attack, Heart Galerie, Paris
2002 VOluptuary, an algorithic Hermaphornology, Universal Concepts Unlimited Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Compliant 2.0 Libidinal Bodies in the Bit-stream (Enhanced Corpus Rotundum), Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago
Transformers (avec Virus Projects 1.0 & 2.0), Moving Image Gallery, NY
2000 es-satyricOn 2000, Universal Concepts Unlimited Gallery, NY
1999 Viral Beauty, Boston Cyber Arts, Boston http://www.bostoncyberarts.org
1997 Das Neural Netz, (en collaboration avec Mathias Groebel) Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich
1996 Joseph Nechvatal Retrospective, Galerie Berndt, Köln
Joseph Nechvatal & Steve Miller, Parsons Gallery, Paris
1995 Alt.sex, (en collaboration avec Mathias Groebel), Galerie In Situ, Aalst, Belgium
Les Archons, Galerie Multimedia, Paris
Angels, Broken Hearts and Computer Viruses, Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich
1994 Computer Virus Project, Espace d'Art Yvonamor Palix, Paris
Information Bruit Culture, Galerie Traje, Besançon, France
Computer Virus Project, Galerie In Situ, Aalst, Belgium
1993 Computer Virus Project, The Saline Royale, Arc-et-Senans, France
The Destiny of Painting, Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich
1992 Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris
Tombeaux, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
1991 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 Musee des Beaux Arts de Dole, France
Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich
Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris
1989 Gallery Fahl, Stockholm, Swenden
Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Swenden
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988 Joseph Nechvatal Computer-Robotic Paintings: 1986-1987, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
De Selby Gallery, Amsterdam
Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris
1987 Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
NeuerAachenerKunstverein, Aix-la-Chapelle, France
Gallery Engstrom, Stockholm, Swenden
1986 Joseph Nechvatal: Photographs,Greathouse, New York, NY
Anna Friebe Galerie, Köln
Vanquard Gallery, Philadelphia
1985 Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Swenden
XS: An Installation, Gray Art Gallery, East Carolina Univerity, Greenville, NC
1984 Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
Joseph Nechvatal: Grace Under Pressure, Gallery Nature Morte, New York, NY
1983 Joseph Nechvatal, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
Joseph Nechvatal, Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
Joseph Nechvatal, Spiritual America, New York, NY
1982 Joseph Nechvatal, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Joseph Nechvatal: The Occult Power of Technology: Part II, The Kitchen, New York, NY
1981 The Occult Power of Technology: Part I, P.S. #1, Long Island City, NY
1980 Methadone Median, abandoned methadone center on west Canal Street, New York, NY
Group exhibitions (selection)
2010 Sunday's Screening #2, Galerie Macda Danysz, Paris
Piano Eye (avec Christophe Avella-Bagur et Stefan Hoenerloh), Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris
2009 Maniac, Artspace Hartford, Hartford, CT
Colab Show, 100 Church Street, New York, NY
Best of Digital Art, Digital Art Museum, Berlin, Allemagne
2008 Beaux Arts: French Contemporary, Wm Turner Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Colab Reduxe, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
After The Net, Observatori, Valencia, Spain
ECAM 2008, The National Center for the Arts, Mexico City, Mexique
Continuous Current, Westside Gallery, New York, NY
2007 The End(s) of Photography: Modeling the Photographic, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH
Insatiable Streams, Beijing BS1 Contempoary Art Center, Caochangdi, Chine
iea: Ten Years of The Institute for Electronic Arts, BS1 Contemporary Art Center and Zero FieldArt Center, Beijing, Chine
Sound Art in a Limo, en coopération avec l’Armory Art Fair, commissaire d’exposition Holly Crawford, New York, NY
AIDES, Yvon Lambert, Paris
2006 The Downtown Show : The New York Art Scene 1974-1984, Grey Art Gallery. New York, NY
Reshuffle, Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College, New York, NY
Copilandia, Gratis, Seville, Espagne
The Downtown Show : The New York Art Scene 1974-1984, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Numeripop: Viral Counter Attack, St Brieuc, France
The Downtown Show : The New York Art Scene 1974-1984, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Honest Echo, 2 X 13 Gallery, New York, NY
Computer Fine Art Collection of Doron Golan, Ausstellungsräume des Digital Art Museum, Berlin
Re:connect, Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred, New York, NY
2005 ElectroScape, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
6eme carrefour de l'image de l'Océan Indien, Le Port. Ile de la Réunion
Vintage East Village, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Digital Sublime : Gwangju Biennale, MOCA, Taipei
Reprotech, New York Academy of Science, New York, NY
Hyper-Runt: Anxiety and Malformation in the Techno Womb, Inliquid, Philadelphie, PA
Art In Motion, University of Southern California School of Fine Arts, L.A.
Touch and Temperature, Bitforms Gallery, New York, NY
trans>, Participant Inc, New York, NY
Viral Counter Attack, Art Metz. Foire européenne d'Art Contemporain. Image-Mouvement, Metz, France
Digital Stories, [DAM] Ausstellungsräume des Digital Art Museum, Berlin
Viral Counter Attack, Résidence à la Gaîté lyrique, Paris, France
East Village USA, New Museum, New York, NY
Touch and Temperature, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX
Viral Counter Attack, Festival Art-borescence 01, Paris, France
Viral Counter Attack, Galerie RLBQ. Festival RIAM01, Marseille, France
2003 Synthetic Lightings: Complex Simulations of Nature, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
Polarities, The Wall Street Journal Lobby Gallery, New York, NY
FuturNET, Rome, Italie
NOTEBOOK, Artscape, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, PA
Peam2003, Pescara, Italie
THE SPIRITUAL IN DIGITAL ART, Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, Canada
Open For Action, The Center For Book Arts, New York, NY
2002 Post-Flesh, University Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, CA
media_city seoul 2002, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Corée du Sud
Ornamente : 3 Positions of Conceptual Art, Galerie Berndt, Cologne
NIGHT VISION, Illinois State University, Normal, IlL
Contaminaction, Jeune Creation, Paris
Reality Revisited, In Situ, Aalst, Belgique
Reality Revisited, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne Allemagne
Night Vision, White Columns, New York, NY
Split Festival, Split, Croatie
info@blah : mining the data glut, iKatun, Boston, MA
2001 Le Projet Virus, 2001, Mains D’Oeuvres, Paris
Cin-o-matic: Memory and Cinematic Perception, The New Museum, New York, NY
The Collector, Universal Concepts Unlimited Gallery, New York, NY
1.44 Megs, Moving Image Gallery, New York, NY
The Graphic Art Biennial, Györ, Hongrie
2000 R.E.D. - Remote Experience Dependency, UCU Gallery, New York, NY
Noise: The Digital and the Discrete, Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge, MA
The Perpetual Well, Samuel Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FlL
The Perpetual Well, Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY
Rounders, UCU Gallery, New York, NY
polyALTERITY, UMF Art Gallery, Farmington, ME
Lit. Fig. : Work from Words, The SPACE @ MEDIA TRIANGLE, NY
1999 Reflex: Matthias Groebel, Joseph Nechvatal & Endre Tót, Galerie Berndt, Cologne
Digital Hybrids, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH
TheTecho-Digital Sublime, Central Fine Arts, New York, NY
MA(R)KING, Central Arts, Tuscon, commissaire d’exposition Elaine E. King
Three Computer-related Artists, Galerie Berndt, Cologne
Links: Schilderkunst in Extremis? Kunstcentrum Sittard, Maastricht
Diverse Dialogues, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark
Old School, Life, New York City, commissaire d’exposition Carlo McCormick
1998 Body Mécanique, Wexner Center, Columbus OH
Thundergulch: Computer Arts Fellows, New York, NY Technology Center
Chaos and Capacity, Central Fine Arts, Inc. New York, NY
1997 Art Fractal, Galerie Ricard, Paris
1995 BLAST Bioinformatica, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
BLAST, Galerie des Archives, Paris
Veered Science, Huntington Beach Art Center, CA
In Corpus Machina, Espace d'Art, Paris
BLAST Bioinfomatica, Javier Lopez Gallery, Londres
Reinventing The Emblem, Yale University Art Gallery
Die Schnheit Der Fraktale, Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich
Transiti, Arx Art Gallery, Turin, Italie
Art Fractal: été, Galerie Angle Art Contemporain, St. Paul-Tro Château
1994 Excess in the Techno-Mediacratic Society, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca. (commissaire
d’exposition Joseph Nechvatal)
Art & Virus, Gallery Yaki Kornblit, Amsterdam, Hollande
Tohu-Bohu, Galerie de l'etoile, Paris
Art & Virus, Galleria Del Ventaglio Contemporanea, Udine, Italie
Lo Specchio di Proteo, Perugia, Alessandrie, Italie
Figures d'Origines, Chapelle Salpetriere, Paris
1993 Computeruntersttzte Kunst, Kunstlerwerkstatt, Munich
L'Opera Al Femminile, Galleria Arx, Turin
Bodies, Atelier of Philip Pocock, Cologne
Excess in the Techno-Mediacratic Society, Musee D'Arbois, France (commissaire d’exposition Joseph Nechvatal)
Excess in the Techno-Mediacratic Society, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (commissaire d’exposition Joseph Nechvatal)
Erlebnis E Alterita, Galleria Marco Noire, Turin
Hiding / Revealing, Galerie In Situ, Aalst
La Fractalite Dans L'Art, Campus de La Doua, Villeurbanne, Mediale Hamburg
Painting as Paradigm, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
Procedures: Informatiques, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris
Presentation, NeuerAachenerKunstverein, Aachen, Allemagne
1992 Ecstasy, Dooley Le Cappellaine, New York, NY
L'Epreuve Numerique, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris
New York, NY Artists, Galerie Bernhard Steinmetz, Bonn
10th Anniversary Visiting Artists Exhibition, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Representation, Reproduction and Photography, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
1991 Outside Ameirca: Going into the 90s, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
Dilation, performed by the ballerina Lauren Houser at the residence of Bil Ehrlich, New York, NY
1990 20th Anniversary Exhibition White Columns, New York, NY
All Quiet on the Western Front, Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris
Exchange of Information, New York, NY Telephone New York, NY
Le Tableau des Riches Inventions, Picaron Editions, Amsterdam
The Unique Print: 70s into 90s, Lois & Michael Torf Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1989 Theater on Paper, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Once upon A Time There Was A Photograph, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, CA
After Collapse: Rebuilding Expressive Media, State University, Amherst, MA
Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Standplaats AKI, Akademie Voor Beeldende Kunst, Enschede, Pays Bas
Moderne Kunst, Malmo Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Malmo Suisse
Erotic America, Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris
The Man Who Believed He Could Move: A Celebration of the Bicentennial of the French Revolution,
Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY
1988 Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum, Malmo, Suisse
New Visions of the Apocalypse, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
New York, NY Now, Guthenberg Art Museum (Suisse et Finlande)
Perpetual Subversions, Bruno Facchetti, New York, NY
Computer Assisted: The Computer in Contemporary Art Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pa.
Committed to Print, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1987 Chemical Field, De Zaak, Groningen
Digital Visions: Computers and Art, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse
Digital Visions: Computers and Art, IBM Gallery NY
New Coordinates, Simard, Halm and Shee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Documenta 8, Kassel Allemagne
This is not a Photograph: Twenty Years of Large-Scale, Photography: 1966-1986,
The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Fl
This is not a Photograph: Twenty Years of Large-Scale, Photography: 1966-1986, Akron Art Museum, OH
This is not a Photograph: Twenty Years of Large-Scale, Photography: 1966-1986, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Not a Door; A Spectacle, collaboration entre Scott B. Billingsley et Joseph Nechvatal, Hallwalls, Buffalo NY
1986 Drawings from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Drawings from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, University of Alabama Moody Gallery of Art
Drawings from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, Tuscaloosa Pennsylvania State University
Drawings from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park
Il Cangiante, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milano
Metabody, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Spiritual America, CEPA, Buffalo, NY
Pay Attencion, Brandts Palchus Galleri, Copenhagen
Drawings, Piezo Electric, New York, NY
Time after Time, Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY
Face It, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Suisse
XS: The Opera, en collaboration avec Rhys Chatham, Shakespeare Theatre, Boston
1985 Infotainment,Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Infotainment, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Infotainment, Vanquard Gallery, Philadelphie, PA
Infotainment, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO
Infotainment, De Selby Gallery, Amsterdam
Infotainment, Galerie Montenay-Delsol, Paris
Correspondences: New York, NY Art Now, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo
Correspondences: New York, NY Art Now, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya
Correspondences: New York, NY Art Now, Tagaki Hall Espace Media, Kobe
Anniottanta Castel Sismondo, Palazzina Moster, Chiesa di Santa Maria ad Nives, Rimini
Anniottanta Castel Sismondo, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Bologne
Whitney Biennial: Group Material, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Memento Mori, Moore College of Art Gallery, Philadelphie, PA
The End of the Night, en collaboration avec Rhys Chatham, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
XS: Night of Power, en collaboration avec Rhys Chatham, 8 BC, New York, NY
XS: Night of Power, en collaboration avec Rhys Chatham, Quando, New York, NY
1984 Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
Smart Art: New Work from New York, NY, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Disarming Images: Art for Nuclear Disarmament, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (10 institutions des Etats-Unis)
Via Satellite, Amerika-Haus, Cologne
Natural Genre, Fine Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, Florida State University
The New Capital, White Columns, New York, NY
Drawings by Contemporary Figurative Artists, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore
Humanism: An Undercurrent, University of South Florida, Tampa
Romance and Catastrophe, Piezo Electric, New York, NY
Contemporary Perspectives, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Motives, Albright-Know Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
New York, NY New: 26 Artists, Studio di Corrado Levi, Milan
Dessins, Gillespie-Laage-Salamin, Paris
XS: The Opera Opus, avec la collaboration de Rhys Chatham, Pyramid Club, New York, NY
XS: The Opera Opus, avec la collaboration de Rhys Chatham, Club Danceteria, New York, NY
XS: The Opera Opus, avec la collaboration de Rhys Chatham, 8 BC Club, New York, NY
XS: The Opera Opus, avec la collaboration de Rhys Chatham, Dannheisser Foundation, New York, NY
1983 New York, NY, Kunstmuseum, Aalborg
New York, NY, Randers Kunstmuseum
Contemporary Drawings, Barbara Krakow, Boston, MA
Four New York, NY Artists, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Rotating Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Speed Trials, White Columns, New York, NY
Joseph Nechvatal / Not Vital / Robin Weglinski, Gallery Nature Morte, New York, NY
Isle of Dread, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 71 Broadway and 120 Broadway, New York, NY
Future V Installation, 93 Prince Street, New York, NY
1982 The Atomic Salon, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
Blame it on the Brain Installation, Zippers Night Club, New York, NY
1981 The Positive Show, ABC No Rio, New York, NY
New Drawings, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
The Doomsday Show, Artists Space, New York, NY
The Monumental Art Show, Brooklyn, NY
The Inauguration Show, ABC No Rio, New York, NY
Contemporary Psychedelia Installation, Club Inroads, New York, NY
Free Speech on Broadway Performance, Performance avec Carol Parkinson et Cid Collins, New York, NY
1980 Colab : Collaborative Projects, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
Murder, Suicid &, Junk, ABC No Rio, New York, NY
Artists for Survival, ABC No Rio,
The Times Square Show, Times Square, New York, NY
1978 European Art/Performance, avec Carol Parkinson et Cid Collins, Tour Centre of Experimental Theatre, Antwerp
European Art/Performance, with Carol Parkinson and Cid Collins, Ecole d'Architecture , Tournai
European Art/Performance, with Carol Parkinson and Cid Collins, Theatre on the Rijn, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Bibliography (selection)
2007 Ebon Fisher, Wigglism, Leonardo, Vol. 40, Number I, p 40, color image p. 43
Edmond Couchot, Des Images, du temps et des machines, édité Actes Sud, pp. 263-264
2006 Donald Kuspit, Arte Digital y Videoarte, Circulo de Bellas Artes Madrid, p. 33-35, color illustrations 2,3&4
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Kunstverein", Aachener Volkszeitung (Mai)
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Lottmann, Joachim "Documenta-Eindr¸cke von der Erˆffnung" Wolkenkratzer Art Journal
Malsch, Friedemann "Joseph Nechvatal Galerie Anna Friebe" Kunstforum (Janvier)
Siffrin-Peters, Annette "Gewirr aus feinen Linien. Documenta-Teilnehmer
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Raab, Jörgen "Humanisierung der Technik: Joseph Nechvatal bei Anna Friebe", Külner Illustrierte (Novembre)
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1984 Brooks, Rosetta "Interview-Rhys Chatham & Joseph Nechvatal", ZG
Cotter, Holland "Joseph Nechvatal", Arts (Novembre)
Deak, Edit "The Critic Sees through the Cabbage Patch", Artforum, (Avril)
Fisher, Jean "Joseph Nechvatal", Artforum, (Janvier)
Glueck, Grace "Joseph Nechvatal", The New York, NY Times (Septembre)
Jones, Ronald "Joseph Nechvatal", Arts (Decembre)
Kleyn, Robert "The Shadow Reflected", ZG
Kleyn, Robert "Protective Mimicry", Vanquard (Mars)
Kuspit, Donald "Joseph Nechvatal", Artforum (Decembre)
Masheck, Joseph Smart Art, Published by Willis, Locker & Owens, New York, NY
Robinson, Walter and McCormick, Carlo "Slouching Toward Avenue D", Art in America
1983 Fine, Kimberly "Joseph Nechvatal East Village Eye (15 octobre)
Levin, Kim " Shock of the Old", Village Voice (27 septembre)
Levin, Kim "Joseph Nechvatal / Not Vital / Robin Weglinski", The Village Voice (Mai)
McCormick, Carlo "Joseph Nechvatal", New York, NY Beat (Decembre)
1982 Lawson, Thomas "Joseph Nechvatal (The Kitchen)", Artforum (Avril)
Raynor, Vivian "The Automatic Salon", The New York, NY Times (Juin)
Russell, John "Inaugural Show-Jack Tilton Gallery", The New York, NY Times (7 octobre)
Publications (selection)
Nechvatal, J. 2009 Towards an Immersive Intelligence : Essays on the Work of Art in the Age of Computer Technology and Virtual Reality 1993-2006, Published by Edgewise Press
Nechvatal, J. 2006, Jean Baudrillard and a Counter-Mannerist Art of Latent Excess, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 3, Number 2 (July 2006).
Nechvatal, J. 2005, Immersive Excess in the Apse of Lascaux, Technoetic Arts 3:3, pp. 181-192
Nechvatal, J. 2004, Origins of Virtualism: An Interview with Frank Popper Conducted by Joseph Nechvatal Spring 2004 issue of the CAA Art Journal pp. 62-77
Nechvatal, J. 2004, Frank Popper and Virtualised Art, Winter 2004 tema celeste magazine: issue #101, pp. 48-53
Nechvatal, J. 2003, Voluptuous Viractualism, in Simultaneita : New Media Arts Magazine, 01/2003, pp. 25-29
Nechvatal, J. 2002, Hotlist : The Esoteric Arts, Artforum Magazine
Nechvatal, J. 2001, Towards an Immersive Intelligence in Leonardo 9th New York Digital Salon special issue
Nechvatal, J. 2001, Artists and War : La beauté tragique: Mapping the Militarization of Spatial Cultural Consciousness in Leonardo 34.1 (2001) 27-29 and at: http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/len/34.1nechvatal.html#authbio
Nechvatal, J. 2001. La Beaute tragique: Olkowski, Deleuze, and the 'Ruin of Representation in _Film-Philosophy_, Deleuze Special Issue vol. 5 no. 36, November 2001 http://www.film-philosophy.com/vol5-2001/n36nechvatal
Nechvatal, J. 2000. Viractualiy Interview by Colin Goldberg. http://www.everbeta.net/txt/110900txtjnint.htm
Nechvatal, J. 2000. "Alterities: Interdisciplinarity and "Feminine" Practices of Space" at: http://www.mire.net/penelopes/pages/ntic/cyber/netchaval.htm
Nechvatal, J. 1999. Introduction to “Immersive Ideals/Critical Distances : A Study of the Affinity Between Artistic Idealogies Based in Virtual Reality and Previous Immersive Idioms” http://www.insead.fr/calt/Encyclopedia/ComputerSciences/VR/vr.htm
Nechvatal, J. 1999. Immersive Ideals/Critical Distances ; A Study of the Affinity Between Artistic Idealogies Based in Virtual Reality and Previous Immersive Idiom. Newport : University of Wales College (PhD Thesis)
For a selection of art reviews written from 1993-2000 on other artists by Joseph Nechvatal - primarily for the web-site Rhizome http://www.zhizome.org - see: http://www.dom.de/arts/artists/jnech/ under the publications link
Nechvatal, J. 1983. "Epic Images and Contemporary History" In Real Life Magazine, No.11/12, Winter, 1983
Nechvatal, J. 1984. "Principles of Discord" In Unsound, Vol. 1, No. 2
Nechvatal, J. 1985. "Holding Out the Promise for Pure Regression" In New Observations, No. 28
Nechvatal, J. 1986. "State of the Art / Art of the State" In Spectacle, Fall Issue, 1986
Nechvatal, J. 1987a. "High Style" In Arts Magazine, April Issue 1987
Nechvatal, J. 1987b. "Post-Simulation Decadence" In Arts Magazine, Summer Issue, 1987
Nechvatal, J. 1987c. "Theoretical Statement Concerning Computer Robotic Paintings" In Documenta 8 Catalogue, Vol. 3
Nechvatal, J. 1987d. "A Prophylactic Discourse on Simulated Art" In Code, December Issue, 1987
Nechvatal, J. 1987e. "Simulation and Sublimation: The Law is for All" In Unsound, Vol. 3, No. 1
Nechvatal, J. 1988. "Reorganized Meditations on Mnemonic Threshold" In M/E/A/N/I/N/G Contemporary Art Issues, No. 4, November, 1988
Nechvatal, J. 1989a. "Artistic Cynicism" In Art Criticism, Vol. 5, No. 3
Nechvatal, J. 1989b. "Cal Arts Lecture: An Excerpt" In Lund Art Press, Vol. 2
Nechvatal, J. 1989c. "Re-conceptualizing Drawing" In De Rijksakademie 08, pp. 12-13
Nechvatal, J. 1990a. Selected Writings. Paris: Editions Antoine Candau
Nechvatal, J. 1990b. "Hyper-death and the Scopic Corpse. In Artforum, November Issue, 1990, p. 130
Nechvatal, J. 1990c. "The Urge for Image and the Saturated Eye" on the Public DomaIn Web Site Perforations: http://www.pd.org
Nechvatal, J. 1990d. "Stealing from the Thief's Journal (Extraits traduits du Journal d'un Voleur)" Amsterdam: Picaron
Nechvatal, J. 1991a. An Ecstasy of Excess. Mönchengladbach: Juni-Verlag
Nechvatal, J. 1991b. "An Ecstasy of Excess" In Nechvatal, J. 1991. An Ecstasy of Excess. Mönchengladbach: Juni-Verlag, pp. 3-7
Nechvatal, J. 1991c. "The Artist and Familars" In Blast, Vol. 1, November /December, 1991
Nechvatal, J. 1991d. "The Collapse of the 80's Image" In M/E/A/N/I/N/G Contemporary Art Issues, May Issue
Nechvatal, J. and Gagneur, D. eds. 1992. Excess in the Techno-mediacratic Society. Arbois: Musée d'Arbois
Nechvatal, J. 1992a. "Outrances dans la Societe Techno-mediacratic" In Nechvatal, J. and Gagneur, D. 1992. Excess in the Techno-mediacratic Society. Arbois: Musée d'Arbois, p. 1
Nechvatal, J. 1992b. "Innovations in Image Technology" In M/E/A/N/I/N/G Contemporary Art Issues, No. 11, pp. 38-40
Nechvatal, J. 1993a. "Introduction to The Art of Excess in the Techno-mediacratic Society" In New Observationss, No. 94
Nechvatal, J. 1993b. "The Art of Excess in the Techno-mediacratic Society" In New Observations, No. 94
Nechvatal, J. 1993c. "The Computer and Conceptual Painting" In Gruson, L. ed. 1993. Joseph Nechvatal: Computer Virus Project. Arc-et-Senans: Fondation Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, pp. 29-32
Nechvatal, J. 1994. "New Territory of Significance" In New Observations, No. 104
Nechvatal, J. 1997a. "Immersive Implications" In Ascott, R. ed. 1997. Consciousness Reframed: Conference Proceedings. Newport: CAiiA/University of Wales College
Nechvatal, J. 1997b. "Sex/MachIne/Art: From Mechanical Repetition to Electronic Flicker" In Intelligent Agent: Interactive Media In Arts and Education Fall Issue, pp. 74-79
Nechvatal, J. 1997c. "Computer Cynicism II" In Intelligent Agent: Interactive Media In Arts and Education Vo. 1, No. 12, pp. 155 and 165-166
Nechvatal, J. 1997d. "Artists and Familiars" In Ke-thar'sis Summer Issue, pp. 3-7
Nechvatal, J. 1997e. "Immersive Implications" In New Observations, No. 116, Fall 1997, pp.46-47
Nechvatal, J. 1998. "Computer Cynicism" Perforations 13, http://www.pd.org/topos/perforations/perf13/compcyn.html
Nechvatal, J., 1999a. "Frame and Excess" on Perforations 19, http://www.MacWeb3D.org/
Nechvatal, J., 1999b. "Henri Michaux's Mescaline Engendered Drawings (and their viral diagrammatic relevance to war)" on Perforations 20, LAST STORIES http://http://www.pd.org/perforations/perf-topics.html
Nechvatal, J., 2000a.“La beauté tragique: Mapping the Militarization of Spatial Cultural Consciousness”, Leonardo, Winter
Nechvatal, J., 2000b. “Henri Michaux's Mescaline Engendered Drawings (and their diagrammatic relevance to RHIZOME's "STARRYNIGHT" programming)”. Zing Magazine, Winter Edition
Awards
1983 Caps Grant, Painting
1985 National Endowment for the Arts, Painting
1985 National Endowment for the Arts, Opera and Musical Theater
1985 Massachusetts Council of the Arts, Performance
1986 National Endowment for the Arts, InterArts
1986 Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc.
1988 New York, NY Foundation for the Arts, Painting
1989 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award
1991-1993 Artist-in-Residence, Arbois, France
1992-1993 Artist-in-Resident, Fondation Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's computer lab in Arc-et-Senans, France
1992 New York, NY Foundation for the Arts, Painting
1995 Artist-in Residence, Cite des Art Internationale, Paris
1996-8 Research Fellowship,University of Wales ,CAiiA, Newport, Royaume-Uni
1997 New York Foundation for the Arts: Computer Arts
2003 New York Foundation for the Arts: Computer Arts