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Joseph Nechvatal

Joseph Nechvatal is an artist whose computer-robotic assisted paintings and computer software animations are shown regularly in galleries and museums throughout the world. In 2011 his book Immersion Into Noise was published by the University of Michigan Library's Scholarly Publishing Office in conjunction with the Open Humanities Press. He exhibited in Noise, a show based on his book, as part of the Venice Biennale 55, and is artistic director of the Minóy Punctum Book/CD.

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From Viruses to Algorithms, We Are Always Under Threat

by Joseph Nechvatal April 19, 2020June 24, 2020

What can we learn from the exponential unleashing of viral codes, as they circulate and duplicate beneath the surface of your cultural and physical world?

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Barry Schwabsky Values the Viewer in His New Book of Essays

by Joseph Nechvatal February 28, 2020February 28, 2020

In The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting, Schwabsky’s readable and often chirpy essays philosophically examine what painting is and can become through an observer’s encounter.

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Kiki Smith on Cave Girls, Collaboration, and Some of Her Earliest Works

by Joseph Nechvatal January 14, 2020January 14, 2020

Since the early 1980s, Kiki Smith has created artworks marked by her fascination and concern with the human body. In a conversation with Hyperallergic, she discusses some of her first films and audio works, which have been scantily acknowledged, offering a corrective to the object-based record of her decades-long career.

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What Vincent van Gogh Meant to the German Avant Garde

by Joseph Nechvatal November 25, 2019November 25, 2019

Making Van Gogh: A German Love Story is an heroic effort to salvage Vincent van Gogh’s great artistic intensity from the much hyped, romantic image of the artist as a doomed interloper.

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A Multi-faceted Look at Francis Bacon’s Psychology

by Joseph Nechvatal November 14, 2019

The five essays in Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology call us to grapple with an artist whose life and work were anything but simple.

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The Enthralling Drone Music of Pioneer Éliane Radigue

by Joseph Nechvatal September 16, 2019

Today 87 years old, Radigue worked within the tradition of La Monte Young and John Cage in the 1960s and ’70s, moving between Paris and New York City.

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A Visit to Belgium’s Wondrous Art Nouveau Museum

by Joseph Nechvatal August 21, 2019

Victor Horta, like many architects at the turn of the century, wanted to eliminate the distinction between major and minor arts by creating immersive environments.

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A Collection of Curiosities

by Joseph Nechvatal August 15, 2019August 14, 2019

The exhibition Cabinets of Curiosities is essentially a collection of collections that has everything for the postmodern globalist in the age of data retrieval.

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A Prophet of the Coming Electronic and Mechanical Realities

by Joseph Nechvatal August 5, 2019August 5, 2019

The Centre Pompidou-Metz and Museum Tinguely have joined together to present a remarkably diverse and prolific two-part exhibition devoted to the German artist Rebecca Horn.

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Dora Maar’s Seductive Surrealism

by Joseph Nechvatal July 18, 2019July 18, 2019

Maar’s photographic experiments reject the pretense of naturalism in straightforward photography and attempt to achieve something much deeper than resemblance.

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An Exhibition Tells the Tragicomic Story of a Former Gallerist’s Collection

by Joseph Nechvatal June 10, 2019June 7, 2019

Memories of Travel: The Antoine de Galbert Collection takes us to a thrilling world of outrageous abnormality, which positivist art history had ignored and repressed.

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An Art Historian’s Ode to His Mentors, Including Leo Steinberg and Beatrice Wood

by Joseph Nechvatal June 4, 2019June 3, 2019

Francis M. Naumann’s Mentors is an accessible and richly detailed celebration of intense cross-generational exchanges.

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