Joseph Nechvatal è un teorico della cultura digitale, un artista che spinge le sue ricerche sperimentali sino al punto di incontro e fusione in una dimensione sonora di spazi computazionali virtuali e del mondo fisico.
Veri e propri "field recordings": registrazioni in presa diretta delle manifestazioni sonore dei virus informatici creati da lui e dai suoi assistenti.viral simphOny
Joseph Nechvatal : original concept viral structures
Mathew Underwood : nano, micro, meso and macro structures
Andrew Deutsch : meso and macro structures
Stephane Sikora : C++ programming
Produced at The Institute for Electronic Arts
Steven Mygind Pedersen : IEA project technician
Joseph Nechvatal : visual artwork
(c) Joseph Nechvatal 2007
murmuring tOngue Of Ovid è il secondo movimento della sinfonia virale di Joseph Nechvatal. Il lavoro è basato su una registrazione fatta dallo stesso Nechvatal durante una lettura delle Metamorfosi di Ovidio fatta da Jane Smith nel 1985. Mathew Underwood ha collaborato al brano usando seszioni prese da
viral symphOny. murmuring tOngue Of Ovid
Joseph Nechvatal : original concept, viral structures, & synthesizer
Mathew Underwood : nano, micro, meso and macro structures
Stephane Sikora : C++ viral programming
Ovid's Metamorphosis: text
Jane Smith: voice
(c) Joseph Nechvatal 2008
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Bio Notes:
Since 1986 Joseph Nechvatal has worked with ubiquitous electronic visual information, computers and computer-robotics. His computer-robotic assisted paintings and computer 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'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 Stéphane Sikora.
Dr. 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, UK where he served as conference coordinator for the 1st International CAiiA Research Conference entitled Consciousness Reframed: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era (July 1997); an international conference which looked at new developments in art, science, technology and consciousness. Dr. Nechvatal presently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City (SVA) and at Stevens Institute of Technology. He writes periodically on art and new technology.